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Coffee with the Caps, Friday February 5

Good Friday morning Caps fans. Hoping your week was fruitful and your well-earned weekend is relaxing.

I’m going to make this one short and sweet but I did want to slide in a brief update on the state of labor negotiations. You all probably saw this elsewhere but it is such an important issue at the moment, it bears repeating.

After a week extension in negotiations, the deadline to avert a lockout would have expired last night. But the league and the Players Association opted to extend that for another 24 hours, with MLS saying in a statement that negotiations have reached an “advanced stage.