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Posted By: jay behrens

The thing that hurt baseball moe than anything was the collusion ruling that forced owners to pay free agents they 'might' have gotten if the owners had not tried to show some fiscal sanity and hold down salaries. We can thank our wonderful court system for the current mess more than anyone else. I doubt seriously that salaries would be anywhere near what they are now if the owners had won the case instead of the palyers. Rich clubs and poor clubs would still be a problem, but this ruling just made it that much worse.

Jay