Baseball Strike

  • Don't watch, don't listen

    Whether it's the "Opie & Anthony" sex-in-church caper or a baseball-strike reporting blooper on national TV, when mistakes are made in broadcasting, nobody gets blamed.
  • Optimism in baseball talks

    In five Wednesday meetings, the last ending Thursday morning, owners and players inched closer to an agreement. Stay tuned.
  • A diary of baseball's coming crunch time

    Posturing owners! Angry bankers! Scary lawyers! Rats who gnaw the eyes out first! A day by day guide to the last weeks of the labor war.
  • Don Fehr's drug-testing gamble

    The Players Association head agreed to random drug testing because he knows it's a phony issue for the owners. Plus: George Allen, and more baseball memories.
  • Jim Bowden must go

    Comparing Players' Association head Donald Fehr to the Sept. 11 hijackers degrades the memory of the victims, and baseball too.
  • Two more teams vote against baseball strike deadline

    Now the number of teams whose players have reservations about a strike is up to three. Is there a palace coup in the making?
  • A strike against the baseball strike?

    The players of one small-market team have voted against authorizing a strike deadline.
  • How to remember Sept. 11 -- and how not to

    Salon's new columnist looks at what the upcoming baseball strike and "Sex and the City" tell us about the looming one-year anniversary.
  • Taking baseball owners at their word

    If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance?
  • Bud Selig's buddies

    Even good writers are doing bad stories on the issues behind the looming baseball strike. Why is the media peddling the owners' line?
  • A baseball strike in August?

    The workers demand buccaneer capitalism! The owners insist on socialism! As a strike looms, baseball negotiations offer a bizarro-world version of reality.

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