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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Inside the self-inflicted crisis boiling over as MLB's lockout deadline arrives — MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is in a crisis of its own making, a self-inflicted wound borne of equal parts hubris, short-sightedness and stubbornness from a class of owners who run the teams and seemingly have designs on running the game into the ground.
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USA Today, Yahoo Sports, MLB - The Athletic, McCovey Chronicles, Cubs Insider and True Blue LA
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Source: MLB, MLBPA remain far apart on new CBA as deadline looms — JUPITER, Fla. — Despite a long day of conversations between MLB and the MLBPA on Sunday, the sides still remain far apart on a new collective bargaining agreement, a union source told ESPN.
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BoSox Injection, Sports Illustrated and True Blue LA
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB, players pause CBA negotiations after marathon day of talks, hope to finalize deal before 5 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline — After a 16-hour day of meetings that stretched into early Tuesday morning, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association moved the deadline …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB calls talks ‘productive’ while MLBPA says sides are still ‘very far apart’ entering deadline day … JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball and the players union spent Sunday exchanging various hypotheticals without a single formal proposal, and it just might have been their most productive …
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Associated Press and MLB Baseball News …
Associated Press:
Players unsure whether to head home after sixth straight day of MLB talks ends with sides far apart
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Commissioner Rob Manfred, MLBPA's Tony Clark meet face-to-face as MLB talks gain steam; more spring training games nixed
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James Wagner / New York Times:
A Rare Face-to-Face Meeting as M.L.B.'s Deadline Nears
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baseballmusings.com
Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Dolphins planned to pursue Sean Payton, Tom Brady for 2022 — The Miami Dolphins are moving forward with Mike McDaniel as the head coach and, for now, Tua Tagovailoa as the starting quarterback. At one point after the end of the 2021 season, however, the Dolphins explored a different approach.
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Associated Press:
Derek Jeter stepping down as Miami Marlins' CEO, shareholder — MIAMI — Derek Jeter went into the offseason talking about the Miami Marlins spending more money on contracts, figuring out ways to contend and continuing to build for the future. — His focus — or the Marlins' focus — apparently has changed.
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Derek Jeter stepping down as Miami Marlins' CEO, shareholder — MIAMI — Derek Jeter announced a surprise departure from the Miami Marlins on Monday after 4½ mostly unsuccessful years that didn't come close to matching his success as a player for the New York Yankees.
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
How the Mets will be impacted if MLB cancels a month of games — Major League Baseball, on the day of its manufactured deadline for the regular season to start on time, decided to spell out the part of these labor negotiations that we already knew. — MLB on Monday indicated to the players union …
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Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Making history: Elizabeth Benn hired as Mets director of Major League ops — NEW YORK — Amid a changing landscape across baseball, the Mets have made an historic hire by bringing on Elizabeth Benn to be their director of Major League operations. Benn becomes the highest-ranking woman baseball ops employee in franchise history.
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DJ Bien-Aime II / New York Daily News:
5 players and positions to watch for Jets at NFL Combine — The Jets possess the most prolific draft capital in 2022 as they own four picks in the top-40. — They hold selection Nos. 4, 10, 35 and 38 in the upcoming draft. And after going 4-13 last season, they have plenty of issues to address on the roster.
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
MLB in serious talks with NBC Sports about broadcasting games — MLB and NBC Sports have had serious talks about the network broadcasting games this season, The Post has learned. — If a deal comes to fruition, most of the games are expected to be on NBC's streaming platform, Peacock.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Nightengale's Notebook: MLB's lockout is doing more permanent damage every single day … JUPITER, Fla. — There was no Twitter during the 1994-95 strike that resulted in the cancellation of the World Series. — The internet wasn't around during baseball's first seven work stoppages.
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MLB Trade Rumors, Jeff Wilson's Texas … and Just Baseball
