Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 16, 2002
Stark on Strike:

Jayson Stark has a good Q & A on the strike issues. As he presents it, the likelihood of a strike is lower than the headlines would have you believe. I like this summary:

In the end, the man who will most determine the fate of this dispute is (who else?) the commish. It's up to Bud Selig to step up, quiet the hawks, come to the table personally and make a compromise deal that gives his side at least some of everything it wanted -- a tax, historic levels of revenue sharing and steroid-testing.

This is no time to get greedy and push for a deal that can't be made. This is a time for baseball to get its act together, prove it can address its problems without a war and get to work on selling its beauty instead of bemoaning its warts. Let's hope that between now and Aug. 30, everybody sees it that way.

I sometimes get the feeling that Bud doesn't want a deal. He really wants an impasse so that he can impose his own system. I think the next two weeks will tell us if that is really true.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:56 PM | Baseball