The NYTimes and Milwaukee Journal are reporting that players might boycott the All Star Game in Milwaukee to embarrass Bud Selig. This is all part of the positioning and strategizing going on during the labor negotiations -- like many accused Selig and the owners of doing with the proposed elimination of two teams.

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I'm all for anything to embarrass Scrooge McSelig. But if the MLB All Star game is anything like the NBA All Star game, real fans don't get to attend the game anyway. Bud's corporate suck-ups will be filling a majority of the seats, I dread.


Okay I'm now editing this as I realize the PLAYERS are contemplating a boycott, not the fans. Great idea guys! As if the fans don't have enough reasons to turn and run the other way. You're lucky we came back after the last strike.

[ March 06, 2002: Message edited by: George_vikingfan ]

It would be an embarrassment to the players as much as it would be to the ownership to have a boycott of the All-Star Game. More symbolic than anything, though. It wouldn't have the devastating effect that canceling the Series did in '94. That nearly killed MLB.

I think we should line the owners up on one side, and the players up on another side, let them whip out their weenies, see whose is bigger, and be done with it. This posturing between them is getting old and isn't doing anything to help the game.

I'll fluff the players side.

Get in line, Okie-boy.