1/Player side: 3/26 deal said players get prorated. Owners tried to keep them from that, then to shorten season to as little as possible if they had to pay prorated. MLB side: Players understood in March that if games were played without fans there would be a need to lower salary

2/that the union then quickly said wasn't the case. Manfred and Clark left Tuesday meeting with a framework for a 60-game season, not a proposal for the union to make a 70-game pitch back to perhaps get a settlement at 65-ish. MLB feels duped twice. Both sides are claiming

3/bad faith by the other. Both sides claiming off-camera bogeymen have steered the negotiation. Players declaring many owners don't want to play at all, so certainly want to play fewest games possible. Owners saying Boras hijacked talks to his style and his agenda. So where are

4/ we? Players will vote whether to accept 60 games. Could accept/claim victory that they got prorated pay for that much, but would lose right to a grievance that MLB negotiated in bad faith. If players reject, Manfred will then impose a season, likely 54-ish games. Both sides

5/will likely grieve. Players will show up unhappy. So it will be continued nasty battle, unhappy players and trying to work within a pandemic. This is bad, bad, worse.