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...likely they'll impose a salary cap later this week. The owners' gambit: Replace their escalating payroll tax idea with a flat tax -- a second alternative to the hated salary cap. Owners' negotiator John Harrington said yesterday the plan was a "substantial move," but players' union head Donald Fehr may have foreshadowed tonight's answer over the weekend: "At first blush, it appears their new proposal contains virtually all the elements of the salary cap." BTW: Strikers' fears of being replaced by foreign athletes are now for naught. Since the Labor Department certified the strike this weekend...
...called off in September. Not surprisingly, no one broke into a spontaneous rendition of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Players Association officials reiterated the union's unshakable stance in support of free agency. Owners repeated their immutable demands for a salary cap. Players Association executive director Don Fehr and interim baseball commissioner Bud Selig competed in a frowning contest for the benefit of photographers. Newly appointed mediator Bill Usery Jr. made it clear that he understands intransigence when he sees it. "When you believe you have positions that are very strong, it's difficult," he said. Settle...
Which makes this winter all the more bleak. Guys named Fehr, Ravitch. Usery, Bettman and Goodenow have been throwing words left and right across the front pages of the New York Times quicker than Nolan Ryan fastballs, but there's nary a scrap for the hungry dogs around the edge of the big league table to munch...
Things have time to settle now that the postseason is dead. Here's hoping Fehr and Ravitch get up the courage to meet with each other once in a while to pretend things are really happening on the negotiation front...
...memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...