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Posted By: peter chao

This will start another minor argument. What do you think of Curt Flood's new book, "A Well-Paid Slave." Personally, I haven't read it, but I have perused it and makes the same argument I have already made. The owners have created the market and the players merely respond to it.

The owners have a more tangible nexus to the problem. MLB trainers and team doctors, they see the stars everyday, are you telling me that they didn't know the players were using all types of drugs? I don't believe it, if I was paying Jose Canseco millions of dollars, I would want to know who his friends are. I would know his training regimen, his health, even the number of times he went to the bath room.

The reason why ML owners didn't jump on players for violating their contracts was simply, "boys will be boys."

Peter C.