JUPITER, Fla. Redskins Rex Grossman Jersey. -- NFL labour talks are in mediation. NBA labour talks are generally stuck. Baseball is hoping to avoid those fates. Thats what union head Michael Weiner will tell players over the coming weeks, a process that started Monday when his spring training tour opened with a visit to the St. Louis Cardinals. Weiner laid out how the Major League Baseball Players Association is prepping for talks on the games next collective bargaining agreement, with the current one set to expire in December. "I know were prepared to try to get it done. Im confident that the ownership is prepared to try to get it done as well," Weiner said. "You dont know until you get to the table." Weiner expects meetings about the next CBA to be held in both Florida and Arizona before the regular season opens. He acknowledged keeping track of the labour talks going on in football and basketball, noting they "conceivably could have an affect on our atmosphere." The NFLs labour deal expires at the end of the day March 3, and the union fears that team owners will lock out players -- and threaten the 2011 season. The NBAs deal expires June 30, and Commissioner David Stern ominously said at all-star weekend that the sides there "have each expressed to the other our dissatisfaction with each others proposals." "You dont want to see a work stoppage anywhere," Weiner said, adding that the NFL and NBA unions have baseballs support. Cardinals player representative Kyle McClellan said the meeting was key because "theres a lot at stake here." "We want to make sure that were informed, make sure that were prepared," McClellan said. "We dont even know what the other sides issues are. As of right now were just making sure that were well prepared." Weiner met with the Cardinals for about 90 minutes, his presentation often interrupted -- to his liking -- by questions, none of which he said caught him off-guard. "What Im talking about here is explaining what preparations have been done, different levels of player involvement, what our negotiating committee does, what our executive board does, what role the player membership has, how they can get information over the course of the year," Weiner said. "And then some of the mechanics of bargaining, where it takes place, all that." Among the subjects Weiner discussed following the meeting: -- He said he would not expect the looming trials for home run king Barry Bonds (scheduled for March) and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens (scheduled for