Days to strike deadline: 1

Today's schedule: Both sides will be in their offices, with multiple bargaining sessions anticipated.

Yesterday's highlights: Commissioner Bud Selig traveled from Milwaukee to New York. The sides held two bargaining sessions.

Quote of the day: "I still think we're going to get something done. I just think we're all too close on too much of this to let it fall apart." - Atlanta's Tom Glavine, the NL player representative

This date in baseball labor history: "I think the owners want to do everything humanly possible to save the postseason. But they also want to save baseball for the future, and that is a very, very high priority." - management negotiator Richard Ravitch, speaking on the 18th day of the 1994-1995 work stoppage