Word: seliger
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...baseball season is officially over, with no winners but leagues of losers. Acting commissioner and Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig decided it was too late to play ball. This season's finale marks the first time since 1904 that America will not see a World Series...
That do-or-die Friday deadline passed with no resolution of the baseball strike, but also no decision to halt the season for good. Baseball owners nixed a proposal by the players, but acting commissioner Bud Selig said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of a World Series-saving compromise until early next week...
That Friday deadline for resolving the baseball strike, imposed by acting commissioner Bud Selig, is looming without any solid hope for saving the season. One possible sign of optimism: an owners' proposal that would allow high-priced bidding to continue without salary caps, but would punish the biggest-spending clubs by levying a "tax" on salaries above a preset level, according to NBC-TV. Both the players and owners hope Selig extends that do-or-die date...
...unilateral salary cap, and not to lock the players out of next year's spring training. He also proposed that prominent outside accountants examine the books of all 28 teams to clarify how many are actually losing money. Team finances are even more mysterious than the infield-fly rule. Selig initially claimed that 19 teams were in the red, although he later revised the figure down to roughly a dozen...
...author John Helyar puts it, "You have 28 different owners and 28 different economic interests, and no matter how united they say they are, they tend to split according to their economic interests." Clearly, some owners (Steinbrenner, Angelos) want to settle fast. The problem is that the owners, at Selig's behest, enacted a stop-me-before-I-buckle-again clause that requires 21 votes for an agreement after a player strike begins. Some theorize that Selig might lead a kamikaze band of less profitable owners to block an agreement well into next season. But the owners seem to make...