must have a salary cap, which would reduce team's spending for salaries from 58 to 50 percent of baseball revenues. This would cumulate more money to please small market teams, and more profit to make the whole baseball industry more secure. The large market teams are proposing plans to the small market teams, but it is not going to matter when the large market teams do not comply with small market pleas to have revenue sharing. The small market owners promise to block any settlement that they believe does not let them compete with wealthier teams. "Salary cap!" Insist the owners. "NO WAY!" Reply the players. The players are not flinching on this issue. The players chose their strike date before spring training, rather than later in the season. This allowed owners to think their side through the season and time after the strike date to crack under the pressure of resuming play and preserve the post season. The players realize that they have control if they play or not when they have control if they play or not. When they stopped playing, they had already earned most of their 1994 salary, which averages over 1.2 million dollars per person. Next month each player will receive 165,500 as a part of a 200 million dollar rainy day fund. The owners are losing money over the work stoppage, but yet they know they will lose a lot more if these salary increases continue. The players on the other hand could not care less about the owners. They feel they have been cheated for years and now this is their time. They feel that retired players are being treated unfairly by owners because the owners did not deposit the tri-annual 6. million dollars into the person fund. What the players do not realize is that the pension money was not available because the owners are paying the players' outrageous salaries. The saddest moment in baseball occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 14 when Small Market owner Bud Selig of Milwaukee Brewers announced the cancellati...
