People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
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It's not a magnet as in all of a sudden the Carolina Hurricanes will spend 49 million. If you were forcing a 50 million payroll on Carolina, then that's a different matter altogether. You're talking about a league that had 2.1 billion in revenue in its last season. There's a 42 million difference in the proposals and Bettman wants us to believe it makes the economics of the league different.
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I think they will have to be some greater revenue sharing, reinstitution of a salary tax, ... But I don't think the big-market owners will agree to everything the smaller clubs want. I'm not sure Bud has got more of a whip than he had in the past. Just be
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Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy,
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My best guess is they won't strike. They know they'll hurt the game and themselves too much if they strike. I don't think they'll tip their hand right now - I'm sure they'll make it sound like they're willing to strike. But my best guess is players will fight the owners with litigation.
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I don't think it's going to happen, and I don't think baseball wants it to happen. I think baseball would be inviting congressional possibly severe congressional response to it. They also would have to negotiate the effects of contraction with the players union.
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