Key MLB offseason dates as a lockout looms

What BBN said about it

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBaseball has a calendar problem.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe labor agreement expires at eleven fifty-nine Eastern on December first, and owners are expected to lock out the players starting December second.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA lockout. So the players are stuck outside, and everyone else is having a party.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorNo party. Free agent signings and trades freeze until a new deal is reached.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBefore that, the general managers meet in Las Vegas from November ninth to twelfth, and teams must tender contracts to arbitration players by November twentieth.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLas Vegas. Is that where the growth opportunity is?

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt's a family in crisis, Vera. The winter meetings in Orlando run December seventh to tenth, and the lockout would already be underway.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo Orlando is where they all go to not play baseball, and somehow the hotel bar is still open.