[sportscurmudgeon]

I suspect that it is way too early for either side to suggest that they meet halfway. Maybe that can happen sometime in early or mid- May.

All the "evidence" is not in the hands of the arbitrator yet and so suggesting a compromise now would be tantamount to saying that the side suggesting the compromise was "wrong" in some way. Neither side wants to appear "in the wrong" by any standard at this point in the process...