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Make no mistake, every commissioner who designed this strategy, every owner who colluded, and every GM who lied about it through that period should be acheap soccer jerseys   s exiled as Pete Rose is from the game. In a very real sense, the owners and GMs "threw" their baseball jobs as surely as the 1919 Chicago White Sox threw theirs, and for the same reason ¡ª money. (In fact, the GMs probably threw their jobs worse than Buckcheap soccer jerseys   Weaver did.) They kept faith with their fellow owners rather than with their fans. But those days teach me a few valuable lessons. The first is that, in discussing the financialcheap soccer jerseys   situation of their respective leagues, the management side in professional sports can generally be assumed to be lying, at all times, and on all issues. The second is that, cheap jerseys for sale  with very rare exceptions ¡ª and I think, for all his faults, Mark Cuban might be one of these ¡ª the management side of professional sports does not see the labor side as cooperative partners in a mutual enterprise. cheap jerseys free shipping  (This, of course, has resulted in the labor side's adopting much the same mentality, but it was management that historically inculcated this dynamic into the relationship.) And last, that labor disputes in professional sports are rarely about money, and almost always about power. cheap jerseys online  The collusion was less about actual economics, and far more about management's attempt to win back de facto the power that they had lost de jure, in the courts and in front cheap jerseys wholesale of various arbitrators, over the previous 20 years. Always and forever, baseball management will mourn the death of the reserve clause.