MLB's collective bargaining agreement expired at midnight. Here's what you need to know about the lockout.
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Major League Baseball is set to enter a work stoppage for the first time in decades, with team owners and ballplayers still at odds over a new collective bargaining agreement. The last pact expired just before midnight on Wednesday, opening the door for owners to call a lockout — management's version of a strike.
Representatives from both sides had been meeting privately in Irving, Texas, for days in an effort to reach a deal on issues including player pay, anti-competitiveness clauses and free agency rules. Yet progress had been fitful at best.
"Hearing the tone in negotiations, the lockout seems like that's a very likely scenario, let's say that," New York Mets pitcher Max Scherzer, a member of the players' union executive subcommittee, told CBS Sports on Wednesday.
On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists.