NEW YORK -- Atlanta Braves assistant union representative Mike Remlinger believes Major League Baseball is heading for a work stoppage.

Remlinger sat in on Wednesday's negotiating session between the players' association and the owners, and did not come out of it with a good feeling.

"I see this headed in one place and one place only," Remlinger told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Unfortunately there are owners out there who don't feel like we will take that step. The reality is, if we have to, we will."

Remlinger attended the session in New York City along with Braves' union representative Tom Glavine, teammate Damian Moss and injured veteran B.J. Surhoff. Mets player representative Al Leiter was also there.

"I think things went well, but I still feel there's a lot of things that need to be done," Remlinger told the newspaper.

Remlinger admitted to the newspaper that the players have talked about possible strike dates the last few days.

"It's not the most pleasant thing to sit and talk about," he told the newspaper, "because everybody wants to get a deal done and keep playing. But that (strike) is our only form of leverage without a deal."

The players' union believes owners will unilaterally change economic rules after the World Series if no compromise is reached. A strike would be the ninth work stoppage in baseball since 1972. Just eight years ago, the World Series was canceled for the first time ever due to a work stoppage.