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Originally posted by Cowperson@Aug 19 2004, 06:09 PM
Look at it from an owner point of view:
Labour peace for a decade - which is astounding for a sport that had something like eight disruptions in the 23 years or so before 1994.
Are many of these teams - aside from Montreal - actually losing money. In fact, does Montreal lose money?
I wonder if the Boston Red Sox voted for Selig given the whining they threw up over the Yankees heisting all the best players?
If there's ever a group of owners you should never trust a word about financial distress coming from their pieholes, its this group.
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I don't know. They're talking about contraction or moving teams. They have a CBA that is so lax that only one or two teams (I forget how many) are being taxed by the luxury tax.. and that's only after they start spending insane amounts of money. They have, in my opinion, way too few teams making the playoffs which never gives most teams any hope.
As a league, I'm sure they're breaking even at worst... and that's only because of the big market teams. If you evaluated most of the teams, I'm willing to bet that a large number of them are not doing well and constantly have to trade away their talent, ala Montreal, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, in order to minimize their losses.
I don't see why they'd want to give him such a long extension... or a lifetime contract.. unless they have something MAJOR planned... and I don't think they're smart enough to do that.