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MLB, MLBPA extend the deadline for a deal to 5 p.m. ET Tuesday

For the first several days of CBA negotiations between MLB owners and players in Jupiter, Florida, I was able to post a wrap most days by early evening on what had transpired over the course of each day.

Monday, that wasn’t possible, as the parties went until the wee hours going back and forth between the Cardinals clubhouse at Roger Dean Stadium, where players set up their headquarters, and a suite at the same ballpark, where owners were caucusing. (The choice of HQ seem obvious, but also very well point out the difference between player and owner.) At one point player and owner representatives had walked back and forth between clubhouse and suite so many times that the assembled writers started referring to these as “innings.