Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxb!mcal From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Player's Strike Message-ID: <1101@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 08:35:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1101 Posted: Tue Jul 16 08:35:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:52:01 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 A date has been set for the player's strike...Aug 6th. The strike date was set in hopes of forcing the owner's to the bargaining table. In Jerome Holtzman's column "On Baseball" in the 7-16-85 Chgo. Tribune, one owner is quoted as saying,"This definitely puts the pressure on us. This is going to smoke us out." The owner did not want to be identified. Another club official, again asking anonymity, said, "I don't know what's going to happen in the next three weeks, but if there is a strike, once it begins, the owners will hang tough... once we lose all that television revenue (from the cancellation of the playoffs and World Series...about $100 million, or approx. $4 million per team) we don't have much to lose again until this time next year. I can assure you the owners would not allow the 1986 season to open unless they got almost everything they want." I sure hope everything can be straightened out before Aug. 6th. If not, well, football season is just around the corner! If they (the players and the owners)think that the fans' life revolves around baseball, they are in for a rude awakening (I hope). Mike Clifford