“Being a really bad former player, I have a fairly good understanding of how these negotiations go back and forth. You just hope that both sides recognize and appreciate that in some capacity, everybody’s going to have to take some type of a setback here. It would be unrealistic to think that that would not happen.”

Supposedly, the owners and the owned have set a Monday deadline to cut a deal and save the 2020 "payback the Astros" baseball season. Don't believe it. They'll wheedle for at least another week, until somebody blinks. 

The above quote, from Tampa manager Kevin Cash, comes from today's Gray Lady.