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...need a broader base than an individual family to carry you through the storms. Groups or corporations are probably the way of the future." O'Malley also felt alienated by the politics of baseball; he thinks the commissioner should be an outsider and not Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig, who has presided over the game during disastrous labor relations...
Reinsdorf, understand, is the hardest of the hard-line owners warring with the players' union. He has the ear of acting commissioner Bud Selig, who recently presided over the defeat of the labor deal that would have brought peace and imposed a luxury tax to level the playing field between large- and small-market teams. Reinsdorf rails against the spiraling cost of players' salaries and then puts his money where his mouth was not. "Any owner who breaks the market like this with the industry in trouble, it makes you scratch your head," said Cleveland Indians general manager John Hart...
...deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed at restraining salaries and closing the gap between richer and poorer teams. And for next year, a labor future that is highly dubious. May have questioned why acting Commissioner Bud Selig has not yet come out in favor of a deal struck by Levine, the negotiator he appointed. Selig's statement? "I believe there will be a vote (today)...We shall see what we shall see." Baseball indeed seems rudderless as it hurtles toward another strike...
...addressing the audience. Cambridge Chronicle Award: Sen. Dole for his reference to former U.S. House speaker and North Cambridge resident Thomas P. "Tip" O'Nell. Calvin Coolidge Award for Brevity: Bill Clinton, for his three word affirmation of laws opposing discrimination against gays and lesbians. "I support it." Bud Selig Award: Sen. Dole: "Braves 1, Cardinals 0." "That's inside baseball...
...been a hard year for the umpires, who lead a hard life. On Opening Day in Cincinnati, Ohio, John McSherry collapsed on the field and died of a heart attack; and on the last weekend of the season, they were humiliated by Alomar and then Budig and Selig. They deserve better. In the same way, fans deserve far better baseball leadership. For now, we're just being spit upon...