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Who cares if baseball strikes? Don't you people know it's football season?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
FORT WORTH, Texas _ What if Major League Baseball played on and no one noticed? Or cared?
Baseball negotiators reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract Friday, averting a threatened strike at the 11th hour ... and just in time for football season.
"I don't think (baseball) is a fun game to watch or to play," Cowboys defensive tackle Brandon Noble said last week. "I was very bad at baseball as a kid. I don't even know if they're playing right now. Are they?"
The return of football was just the remedy for ill feelings left from baseball's latest labor strife. While baseball has had eight work stoppages since 1972, the NFL hasn't seen labor unrest since 1987, when players staged a 24-day strike that eventually led to free agency.
The NFL's agreement with its players' association runs through 2007.
"It's just ...
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