1.   After lunch, the owners gathered, with some wanting to table the vote until a May meeting.

2.   Continuing strife caused the player representatives to table their vote, though.

3.   One delegate sought to postpone the restructuring and another sought to table the vote.

4.   Team player-representatives then tabled their vote on the contract proposal.

5.   The Orioles, who do not intend to form a replacement team, tried to have the vote on replacements tabled until Saturday, but the motion was defeated.

6.   In June, they killed a proposed agreement by tabling a vote.

7.   The Nationalist-dominated legislature could force the issue by tabling a vote of no confidence against the government.

8.   However, the opposition may then have tabled a vote of no confidence, which if upheld, would be a crippling blow to the government.