Baseball On Hold

Baseball’s ruling executive council failed to make any major decisions when it met, leaving labor talks - and interleague play - on hold.

“I won’t kid you,” acting commissioner Bud Selig said. “There’s still a huge difference of opinions, and I don’t want to minimize that. They were all articulated to the point where I felt we had a positive meeting.”

Neither Selig nor Randy Levine, the owners’ chief negotiator, publicly detailed the discussion during the 4-1/2-hour session. Selig declined to call for a vote, saying he wanted to continue to inform teams of details of the proposed deal, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting who spoke on the condition he not be identified.

Levine said the council will meet again - either in person or by conference call - and the source said Selig probably will ask the council then to give Levine permission to wrap up an agreement.