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Ask any player if he wants a strike, and he would say no. Ask most owners, and their answer would be the same. But then there are the "hawks," the hard-line owners who would risk destroying Major League Baseball while claiming they're trying to save it.
Padres owner John Moores spoke for the hawks when he said eight to 10 owners were prepared to shut down baseball for an entire season to get the labor agreement they wanted. But a moderate owner, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the hard-line group consists of no more than six members, and several were likely to fall in line with the 75 percent that commissioner Bud Selig needs to approve a new deal.
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