That's pretty funny, too bad the strike was resloved a week ago. Funny thing is that while saleries were an issue they weren't a major concern of the strike talks. The major issues were between owns of small market teams and larger market teams, its the Commisioner of Baseball and former owner of the Brewers (team is still in the famly) that are bitching becaue they can' compete mean while they don't do anything to try to help themselves compete. There are several owners out there that have more money then Steibreiner but yet choose not to spend the mone on producing a winner and drawing a larger market for the team, rather they would just rather sit back and expect teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, ext. to pay for there players and pay for there lack of attencance or inablity to get corperate spouncership.
In short what I am really trying to say is that the players are catching the brunt of this meanwhile if the same things were going on in your job I think you would have issues too. And the beuty of being in a Union is that they do have some power, but in this case as soon as they tried to take advatage of that power the public jumps all over them.
Give me a brake I think everyone would be pissed if your boss came into your work and said okay we are going to emimate a great deal of jobs. Or how about this, if your store was making more money so you were rewarded by getting a raise but then corprate says oh wait you can't get a raise we have to give the money your store makes to our compition. What the owners piticularly the commision of baseball wanted to and pretty much got there way is rediculous.
Also, a note in all the nogotions the owners would not budg one bit to not force a strike the players did all the comprimising because believe it or not they cared what the fans think.

Sorry for the rant, I just get pissed about it sometimes.