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Four more years: baseball has a labor agreement, but the balance of power still hinges on the balance in George Steinbrenner's checkbook. (Baseball).

The Sporting News

| September 09, 2002 | Rosental, Ken | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's over. You've received your last lecture from union chief Donald Fehr, heard your last tantrum from management attorney Rob Manfred, witnessed your last grimace from commissioner Bud Selig--at least until the new labor agreement is close to expiring in four years.

The players can stop acting as if the owners were trying to pay them like fast-food cooks. The owners can stop making gloom-and-doom pronouncements about a $3.5 billion industry. No more posturing. No more spinning. No more fabricating. Enough. The owners, in particular, waged such a furious public-relations campaign over the past two years that many fans didn't know what to believe. Even now, in the ...

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