As the clock ticks toward midnight, are you a pessimist or an optimist?
I am caught between optimism that these sides understand the urgency to get a deal done in the very short term and pessimism that these two sides are now fighting if they are the tortoise or the snail. So how about we play that pessimist/optimist game?
The sides plan to negotiate to at least Monday, but the animosity is such that one incendiary comment between the wrong two participants — you said Rockies owner Dick Monfort and Mets pitcher Max Scherzer, not me — could send both sides racing toward the exit, eliciting yet another round of blame-the-other spin, harder feelings and a freeze in talks.APIf that happens, then a whole new layer of problems will be heaped upon the current ones. It is not just games and pay that MLB can threaten.
So how about optimism? For this week is potentially a lot of “Negotiating for Dummies,” — each side whines about how disappointed it is in every proposal and counter-proposal up to the moment that they say “yes” to a deal. This is merely a continued staredown to see if the other side cracks and no true movement comes until the heat of a deadline is felt, which is this weekend.
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