PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig met with baseball’s general managers at the start of what promises to be an uneventful two-day meeting of owners at an appropriately tranquil Phoenix-area resort.
Expansion of the playoffs to include two more wild card teams has been put off until at least 2012, largely because it would must be agreed to by the players’ association. The union’s labor contract with Major League Baseball expires in December.
Selig wasn’t scheduled to talk with reporters until Thursday, following a joint meeting of general managers and owners. When he walked past reporters on Wednesday he told them they were “in for a lot of dead time” at the meetings.
While the NFL and NBA are talking lockout in labor confrontations, baseball has made no such dire warnings, a sign of the peace that exists between owners and the union since the devastating 1994-95 strike that wiped out the World Series.
