Word: lockout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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November 31st—The lockout. Hot dog processors everywhere shut their vendors out. Will baseball ever recover...
...intense speculation surrounding the possibility of a short Jordan return overshadowed the actual story of the lockout. It had only been six months, but already most fans, reporters and, more generally, Americans everywhere realized the true post-Jordan NBA world would need years before it was fun again...
Though some fear a lockout may occur if such a proposal is ever implemented, the days of the same high-salary ball clubs competing for the World Series must come to an end—and fast...
...always, there is the heady talk of the preseason, the look at new signees and new prospects. Look hard this year; you may not see America's pastime for a while. The owners are likely to cause trouble when the bargaining agreement expires at season's end. A long lockout may mean the end of baseball as we know it, while retirement may grab other greats, like my hometown hero, Tony Gwynn. Cut class and hit the ballpark in April...
Salary capless baseball can no longer be tolerated. Pray for an owner's strike. That's right. I want a lockout. I want all the overpaid players to suck it up for the good of the league...