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This is the prevailing zeitgeist in the world in which all of the owners of our professional sports teams make their real livings. Why should they be expected tocheap soccer jerseys   act differently toward the people who work in their enterprises than they have for their hobbies? Of course, the workers in the industry of sports have a number of advantages over the anonymous workers in America's other corporations, many of whom are hanging on by their fingernails. First, they are independently rich and independently famous. Their complaints command a spotlight. Second, they have strong and functioning unions; one can only cheap soccer jerseys   guess what happened among the presiding blazers of the NHL when Donald Fehr took over as the head of the NHL players' union. And third, the enterprises in question literally cannot function without them. The Sacramento Kings can't savcheap soccer jerseys   e money by outsourcing the roster to Vietnam. Put these together, and you get the not uncommon complaint that the labor side in sports is "going too far," usually from people whose industries have crushed their unions and/or packed their cheap jerseys for sale   jobs overseas. In reality, sports is one of the few arenas in which the battle for power and control between management and labor approximates what it used to be, back in the days when the country had both billionaires and a functioning middle class. And thatcheap jerseys free shipping  sticks in several affluent craws.

So we get stories like the ones last week, in which the NHL owners demand a few additional pounds of flesh and the management of the NFL announces, seriously, that it might be willing to throw its quality of play to the seals. cheap jerseys online   These are only opening bids, but what drives them all is something permanent and, as near as I've been able to tell, immutable. It's about control and, therefore, about power, and if once the Red Sox had given a cheap jerseys wholesale damn about anything else, they could have had Jack Morris starting in the 1988 playoffs.