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Friday, August 26, 1994
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Talks between baseball groups come to a bitter, frustrating halt
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Negotiations between striking players and baseball owners broke off yesterday and no new talks were scheduled, dimming prospects that a mediator might help end the two-week-old walkout quickly.
"People didn't walk out saying, 'We'll never talk to you again,'" union chief negotiator Donald Fehr said after yesterday's session broke off. "But, clearly there was nothing else to say."
Richard Ravitch, lead negotiator for the owners, said that when talks resumed they would involve smaller delegations from each side.
"At this point, perhaps there are other ways of getting this negotiation moving, and we are going to try those." Ravitch said.
John Calhoun Wells, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, said the negotiations had been recessed and "subject to call," essentially indicating that the talks were off indefinitely.
"We will stay in contact with both sides to discuss the most productive and useful format for these negotiations." Wells said.
Earlier, lawyer Eugene Orza said the talks probably would not
resume until next week.
"Things need to percolate," he said. One player involved in the negotiations saw no early resumption of baseball.
"It's just my opinion, but I don't think there is going to be anymore baseball played this year," said Curt Schilling, player representative for the Philadelphia Phillies.
"Maybe one of these days we'll be able to report some progress," Fehr said Wednesday after talks resumed for the first time since the strike began Aug. 12. "That day is not today."
Yesterday's meeting was the second for the owners and players in two days, but like Wednesday's session, the meeting involved talk but no progress.
Twelve management representatives and 21 players faced each other across a bargaining table in a room that, including all the lawyers, contained 55 people. The pair of two-hour sessions consisted of speeches, not give-and-take.
When talks resumed yesterday, Ravitch continued to argue for a salary can.
"We did not really get to the issue of cost certainty," Ravitch said Wednesday. "I don't think you can expect any instant change in this."
reached 169, players released a report by Stanford economics professor Roger Noll, who examined baseball finances for the union and concluded, "The claim of widespread disaster in the sport is pure fiction."
As the number of canceled games
According to the report, Noll said teams underestimated revenue by as much as $140 million in 1994. However, his statement that revenue is increasing faster than salaries is true only for 1992-93. From 1993-98, player salaries doubled while revenue increased 50 percent.
John Harrington, chief executive officer of the Boston Red Sox, called it a "very biased report" that was a "sideshow and a distraction."
There was plenty of that in Wednesday's session. Inside the room, 21 players and 12 management representatives, along with their lawyers and four federal mediators, gathered around a large U-shaped table.
Outside the room unfolded a bizarre spectacle that included 14 camera crews, about 100 reporters, fans, two player agents, comic Jackie Mason and divorce lawyer Raoul Felder.
"This is my specialty," said Felder, who was passing through. "Greed. Avarice. Self-interest."
"I think these people have no place else to go in the morning," he said of the lawyers. "It keeps them busy."
Players had been insisting for months that owners come to the table. Owners refused until federal mediators entered the talks the day after the strike began.
"It's always better to have it rougher and blunter than have it covered up with a lot of polish." Fehr said.
In the morning session, three owners and nine team representatives gave speeches from two to 12 minutes in length, all insisting a salary cap is necessary to save the game from financial ruin. In the afternoon, players and their lawyers gave speeches insisting that baseball is a booming business.
"It reminded me of what you might expect in a preliminary bargaining meeting prior to a strike deadline," Fehr said.
Ravitch and Harrington agreed the atmosphere improved with owners at the table. Harrington said it could not have happened earlier.
"The receptiveness prior to this would not have been there," he said. "It's like any other touchy-feely situation."
Fehr, as usual, was more gloomy in his assessment.
"I don't think that anybody is optimistic about progress," he said.
With each day of the strike, 186 players are losing $10,000 or more in salary while owners are pocketing a total of $4.4 million in payroll saved. Top winners and losers:
Baseball strike '94
Top payroll savings
| DATE | MONTHS |
| :--- | :--- |
| Yankees | $225,082 |
| Braves | $209,937 |
| Giants | $208,896 |
| Reds | $208,284 |
| Blue Jays | $203,726 |
Top salary losses
Daily losses
Bobby Bonilla, Mets $31,148
Jack McDowell, White Sox $28,962
Roberto Alomar, Blue Jays $27,322
Roger Clemens, Red Sox $27,322
Cali Ripkin Jr., Orioles $26,230
Daily savings
Jeff Dionise and Roy Gallop / Knight-Ridder Tribune
Source: Associated Press
Baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972 was caused when owners threatened to militerally impose a salary cap after this season. Players struck to force an agreement with free agency and salary arbitration, which have helped the average salary escalate from more than $51,000 in 1976 to almost $1.2 million on opening day this year.
the Toronto Blue Jays said. "As long as it there, we feel it will be a stumbling block to baseball being played the rest of this year, and who knows how long after that."
Both sides said it was healthy for all the opinions to be expressed. .
"We made it pretty clear, our feelings about the cap," Paul Mollor of
"There was some venting," Harrington said, adding it was good for the sides to say things "eyeball to eyeball to each other."
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