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Tuesday, March 16. 1993
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Owners corrupting baseball
The start of spring training used to be a refreshing sign that the long winter was beginning to thaw
It was a rebirth, a fresh start. For baseball fans everywhere, spring training was a time when every team
champion and cellar dweller showed promise.
Now it is simply another reminder that professional baseball is going to hell.
Last summer the owners of Major League Baseball forced the resignation of commissioner Fay Vincent. Since then baseball has been a ship without a rudder, a game without an umpire. In other words, without a voice of reason, the owners have had a heedday.
Despite the fact that the city of San Francisco refused to pay for the building of a new stadium to replace the disaster that is Candlestick Park, the owners blocked the Giants' move to Florida.
With disregard for traditional rivalry, the owners are considering realignment.
- The owners are discussing expanding the playoff format, which would lengthen the season and allow undeserving teams a shot at the title.
The owners reopened the collective bargaining agreement with labor, making a player lockout likely in 1994.
The worst offense though, was the owners whining all season about their financial difficulties and then spending $513 million on 70 free agents in the off-season.
Bobby Bonds brought a whole new meaning to the term Most Valuable Player. Bonds got $43.75 million to leave Pittsburgh, where he played in three National League Championships, and join the mediocre Giants.
In fact, baseball set a record for the most player moves in an off-season.
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The World Champion Toronto Blue Jays will have a hard time staying on their lofty perch. The Jays lost slugger Dave Winfield, stoplight Manuel Lee, third baseman Kelly Gruber and pitcher Dane Cone and Jimmy Key.
Toronto hopes to replace Cone with aging A's ace Dave Stewart. The Jays also acquired Paul Molitor. The oft-injured All-Star had played his entire big league career with Milwaukee. Sadly, Molitor's former teammate Robin Yount could be one of the last Hall of Famers to spend his entire career in one uniform.
However, it's hard to blame the players for their lack of loyalty when the owners continue to hand out ridiculous sums of money for mediocre players. Unlike the NBA, baseball has shown no signs of adopting a salary cap to bring escalating salaries under control.
The Cubs let Cy Young winner Greg Maddux get away but signed Jose Guzman, 66-62 lifetime, for more than $14 million. The Atlanta Braves, two-time defending National League champs and proud owner of the game's best pitching rotation, stole Maddux away from Chicago.
In fact, last season 351 players saw time on the disabled list missing a total of 17,746 days. The owners paid $102 million, 13 percent of the league's payroll, to players on the disabled list.
Meanwhile, some of the game's worst teams did little to improve. Philadelphia, the joke of the National League East, hopes to improve by adding one-time pitching ace Danny Jackson. The often-injured Jackson has not had a winning season since
Easy money if you can get the work. Next season, baseball's agreements with the television networks expire. The new contracts will be signed for substantially less money because the networks have taken a bath under the current contracts. The result will be less money available to pay players. That means to continue with skyrocketing salaries, owners will be forced to squeeze the fans at the gate, at the concession stand and in the parking lot.
1988. Jackson joins a team that put 18 players on the disabled list last season.
What it all means is that baseball desperately needs a new leader. Unfortunately, the owners would rather not have a strong commissioner to settle labor disputes and look out for the best interests of the game — someone who could tell them what to do.
The owners, who got $95 million from both of the expansion franchises in exchange for 48 mediocre players, would rather continue to throw tradition and logic out the window.
Realigning the leagues and expanding the playoff format will generate more money. Locking out the players will ensure that the owner's get their way.
Without a strong commissioner, like David Stern of the NBA, these are the things baseball can look forward to because baseball is a sinking ship at the mercy of the misguided men steering it into the sunset.
David Mitchell is a DeSoto, Kan., senior matroring in journalism.
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