Report-Tigers vote to strike.....
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"(Jul 17) (tsn.ca) - Detroit Tigers players won't stand in the way of a work stoppage in major-league baseball, according to reports in the Detroit News.
In a unanimous vote before Monday night's game, the players gave Damion Easley, their representative, the authority not only to vote on a strike date but also to approve on their behalf of a walkout when the time comes.
Despite the immense negative impact another work stoppage would have, Easley said the vote went as he expected it would.
"I think we all know this potentially could be very damaging. That's no secret. But in saying that, every player in this room has benefited from, I hate to say, past work stoppages. A lot of players have sacrificed for us. You can go back as far as you want to go, we've benefited from the other guys' sacrifices.
"I can't believe it was any less damaging then than it is now. What makes (stoppage) No. 1 any less damaging than No. 9?"
Each team will go through the process the Tigers just went through, probably with the same results, until the players association has a mandate to use its unanimity as leverage in negotiations. In such matters, that's standard procedure.
"It seems like it has to come to the same point every single time," Easley said about the eventual setting of a deadline. "Why that is, you're asking the wrong person. But it's too early right now to set a deadline."
Easley isn't ready, however, to say that a work stoppage is probable, only that it's possible.
"Right now, it's 50-50," he said. "I'm concerned we might have to walk out. I don't want it to happen. No player wants it to happen. You can ask any player in the past when they walked out if they wanted it to happen then, and they would have said they didn't. But you do what you feel is necessary."
Easley doesn't completely agree with the common perception that baseball is a troubled game.
"Financially, I don't think it's a troubled game. Product-wise, I don't think so. Competitively, as far as the Yankees being able to have the resources to get the best talent year in, year out, that can be discouraging. But I don't know how you can fault a team for taking advantage of what they have under the rules that are out there. There are probably some things we can do to make it better competitively."
If it takes a strike to make the game better, though, the fan base will be alienated again.
"No doubt, the fans are going to be hot," Easley said. "
In a unanimous vote before Monday night's game, the players gave Damion Easley, their representative, the authority not only to vote on a strike date but also to approve on their behalf of a walkout when the time comes.
Despite the immense negative impact another work stoppage would have, Easley said the vote went as he expected it would.
"I think we all know this potentially could be very damaging. That's no secret. But in saying that, every player in this room has benefited from, I hate to say, past work stoppages. A lot of players have sacrificed for us. You can go back as far as you want to go, we've benefited from the other guys' sacrifices.
"I can't believe it was any less damaging then than it is now. What makes (stoppage) No. 1 any less damaging than No. 9?"
Each team will go through the process the Tigers just went through, probably with the same results, until the players association has a mandate to use its unanimity as leverage in negotiations. In such matters, that's standard procedure.
"It seems like it has to come to the same point every single time," Easley said about the eventual setting of a deadline. "Why that is, you're asking the wrong person. But it's too early right now to set a deadline."
Easley isn't ready, however, to say that a work stoppage is probable, only that it's possible.
"Right now, it's 50-50," he said. "I'm concerned we might have to walk out. I don't want it to happen. No player wants it to happen. You can ask any player in the past when they walked out if they wanted it to happen then, and they would have said they didn't. But you do what you feel is necessary."
Easley doesn't completely agree with the common perception that baseball is a troubled game.
"Financially, I don't think it's a troubled game. Product-wise, I don't think so. Competitively, as far as the Yankees being able to have the resources to get the best talent year in, year out, that can be discouraging. But I don't know how you can fault a team for taking advantage of what they have under the rules that are out there. There are probably some things we can do to make it better competitively."
If it takes a strike to make the game better, though, the fan base will be alienated again.
"No doubt, the fans are going to be hot," Easley said. "
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