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...current level. This would depress free-agent spending by wealthy clubs and simultaneously force small-market teams to sign higher-priced talent. The payoff to owners was clear: player salaries currently equal 58% of revenues and are growing. Small wonder that the players' response, enunciated by union negotiator Don Fehr, was in effect "Death before dishonor -- a salary cap never!" The union's own counterproposal was an unimaginative enhancement of the status quo: increasing player bargaining rights across the board and upping the minimum salary from $109,000 to more than...
...East, while Montreal, with the second lowest, has the majors' best record. But a good team in a small market is likely to lose its stars to free agency. The salary cap is a compromise between the plush teams and the poor ones. That's why union representative Donald Fehr says the players are really a third party to their dispute...
...friend of mine and I spent the better part of Friday afternoon arguing if, in fact, Tom Lehman and Rick Fehr were the same person. Another clone that Deane Beman and the Tour Fairies could be proud of, from the all-exempt Top 125 to the Masters Top 10 quicker than you can say "Q-School...
...Players Association refuses to believe that a reduced national-TV contract justifies givebacks, contending that the owners have just kept on spending in the face of this long-anticipated drop in revenues. "If the Chicago White Sox are unwilling to give money to the Milwaukee Brewers," argues Don Fehr, the union president, "it suggests either that the owners don't consider this a serious problem or else they want the players to solve it for them...
...Donald Fehr, executive director of the players' union, hints that his members may be willing to accept some changes in the arbitration system in exchange for a voice in such major decisions as TV contracts and ownership changes. But if the owners play hardball, Fehr warns, "it will not be a short fight." The owners have established a credit line of $350 million that could be used to cover set operating costs in the event of a lockout or strike, while the players have amassed a $140 million strike fund. Unless the argument is settled quickly, the biggest loser...