Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland and I had to scrap what I originally had planned for this newsletter, which is a good thing.
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162 games isn’t out of the question
I was fully expecting to open today’s newsletter lamenting the cancellation of MLB games, but by the time I went to bed it was becoming clear that the league and the union might be able to avert disaster. Indeed, after 16 hours of meetings yesterday, the two sides believed they had come close enough to a deal to continue negotiating without canceling games.