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Monday, August 22,1994
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Strike threatens postseason play
The Associated Press
Just like thousands of other out-of-work Americans, Barry Bonds went to court to lighten the load of his child support payments.
Bonds, having to make due without his $4.75 million salary during the baseball strike, obtained a court order cutting his $15,000-per-month child and spousal support payments in half.
After making the decision, San Mateo County Domestic Relations Commissioner George Taylor asked for Bonds' autograph.
"To have the courts look upon him as a superhero made her feel like she was not playing on a level playing field," said Lawrence Stotter, the lawyer for Bonds' wife. Sun.
Sun Bonds was getting the higher payment as part of a temporary arrangement in a divorce proceeding that began in May. Although the payment was reduced to $7,500 per month, she continues to have access to a credit card account, according to court records and lawyers for both sides.
As the strike completed its ninth day, Colorado Rockies owner Jerry McMorris said small-market clubs have too much power at times and said owners should allow some of the small-market teams to move. Executive
council chairman Bud Selig said the expanded postseason would be jeopardized if the walkout continued into mid-September.
Fourteen more games were canceled Saturday, raising the total to 117. Management negotiator Richard Ravitch and union leader Donald Fehr both took the day off, and talks aren't scheduled to resume until tomorrow or Wednesday.
McMorris said small-market clubs were the moving force behind management's bargaining position.
"They have a lot of power — they got themselves into this position." McMorris said in an interview broadcast by CBS Sports. "It didn't happen overnight. Do I think the pendulum is maybe a little far some days? Yes I do, there's no question about it. By the same token, I think if we make it easier for some small-market teams to move — they can't all move — I think a couple could move. That might help the situation."
Selig, in an interview broadcast by ABC's "Wide World of Sports," said the question of when the strike would effect the end of the season hadn't been addressed.
"Once we get into September, you're getting into some very, very tense ground relative to the rest of the season," Selig said. "So starting Wednesday, we've got to sit down and really get serious — all parties — and
make a deal so that we don't have to start confronting dates, because September becomes a problem, and obviously when you get into mid-September, you really have a lot of problems."
Selig said owners hadn't yet decided if they would implement the salary cap after the season if there isn't an agreement. They would risk the strike continuing at the start of the 1995 season.
"It's something that we've talked about but haven't really confronted yet because we're going to play this day by day," Selig said. "I want to be more of an optimist. I want to believe starting Tuesday and Wednesday we're going to sit down, we're going to confront our problems. That is something the industry just has not done over the past 21/2 decades. And that's why we're in the position we find ourselves today."
McMorris, whose team generates the sport's highest attendance, repeated Saturday that he believes a salary cap isn't necessary.
"I don't have a problem with trying to find a solution addressed to the fundamental problems of the game," McMorris said. "If we can do it without a salary cap, I can live without a salary cap. The best solution we've been able to come up with, including the Colorado Rockies, is a salary cap."
The Associated Press
If you want to blame the major league baseball shutdown on someone, consider the National Basketball Association, which invented the salary cap a decade ago, and the National Football League, which embraced it this season.
League negotiators, including Jeff Mishkin, senior vice president for legal and business affairs for the NBA, proposed a salary limitation. That idea landed them in court, sued by the NBA Players Association, which claimed that was an antitrust violation.
After that was settled, talked took a different direction. Larry Fleisher, then head of the union, and David Stern, not yet commissioner, discussed revenue sharing. That concept appealed to Fleisher, provided the players had up side of the equation.
The two sides met halfway, creating the 53 percent solution. In 1983-84, that meant a $3.6 million share of the take for the players on the 23 NBA rosters. For 1994-95, it means $15.17 million on 27 teams.
"It was an enormous breakthrough." Mishkin said. "It was the first time a union and an employer had agreed to share revenue."
Charles Grantham, successor of the late Fleisher as union leader, said the cap was not designed in perpetuity.
"We were joining the partnership to help the NBA grow," he said.
The NFL got its first taste of the salary cap this season with the limit set at 64 percent of designated gross revenues, which translated to a maximum of $39 million and minimum of $31 million per team, including benefits.
Although some players have felt squeezed by the cap, Doug Allen, NFL Players Association assistant executive director, said the brief experience with the system has been positive.
"We think the system is working well," he said. "It's a system that forced teams that traditionally paid low salaries to be lifted up. The average payroll went up 51 percent last year."
Baseball players, armed with the experience of football and basketball brethren, are apparently permanently opposed to any kind of cap.
Could that change as this strike drags on?
Don't bet on it.
"There's a better chance," said agent Tom Reich, "of the United States returning to a monarchy."
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