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baseball fans are gonna have to wait to see their

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favorite teams Take the field news 12 Gino Fanelli is

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in new Hyde Park to explain for us tonight.

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Gino Yeah, I mean the inevitable becoming official today

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is the MLB announced that spring training games will officially

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be postponed until at least March five. This coming

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after multiple failed bargaining sessions and rejected proposals by both

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sides. The latest when the MLB PGA turned down

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the league's request to eliminate hundreds of minor league playing

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jobs in a proposal on Tuesday. This statement released

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by the MLB today stating we regret that without a

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collective bargaining agreement in place, we must postpone the

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start of spring training games until no earlier than saturday

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March 5th. All 30 clubs are unified in their

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strong desire to bring players back to the field and

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fans back to the stands. The union though firing

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right back saying MLB announced today that it must postpone

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the start of spring training games. This is false

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. Nothing requires the league to delay the start of

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spring training, much like nothing required the league's decision

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to implement the lockout in the first place. Despite

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these decisions by the league, players remain committed to

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the negotiation process. The owners originally locked out the

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players on December two after the previous collective bargaining agreement

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expired. They have also set a February 28 deadline

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for an agreement to be reached If the season is

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going to start on time. On March 31.

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We spoke to long Islanders about their opinion on the

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delayed return of baseball. It's greedy. That's all

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it is. It's a it's a business. It's

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not for the fans anymore. It's a business.

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I wish this could be settled because football is over

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. We need baseball. Well, the owners make

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a lot of money. The players make a lot

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of money. And truthfully, it's really hurting the

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fans because that's the backbone of baseball. Yeah,

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now there is a bargaining session set for Monday,

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with both sides saying that they will meet frequently this

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week, possibly as much as every day as that

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February 28 deadline quickly approaches and the clock continues to

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tick on the start of the MLB season.