February 25, 200620 yr Fehr meets with Marlins: The Marlins on Friday became the sixth stop for Major League Baseball Players Association officials, who make their annual tour to each club. Don Fehr, the union's executive director, addressed the club for about 90 minutes, discussing players issues and touching on the fact that the collective bargaining agreement expires in September. Without giving specifics, Fehr went over a variety of topics. The league and union have yet to get into serious formal discussions, but Fehr says it is still early and there is a focus on the upcoming World Baseball Classic. "We never discuss specifically what we talk about," Fehr said. "You can assume we talked about virtually all topics of relative interest, and the contract is expiring at the end of September. So it would be a safe assumption that we got into [the CBA status] at some point. But it's still early. While we're in the last season, the contract doesn't expire for another 10 months or so. Hopefully we'll have it done before then, but I'm way out of the prediction business." No formal talks between the union and league have begun, but Fehr points out there is informal dialogue. "We've got a lot of informal contact going on, and we're beginning to have some information exchanges and other things," Fehr said. "You've got to remember we have this tournament going on, too. You try your hardest to get an agreement and hope you do." http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/...t=.jsp&c_id=fla
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