Re: your mail

[bocelts@scsn.net (R. Bentz Kirby)]

But Cecil, someone does force the owners to bow to the demands and it is us, the FAN.  I have seen quite a bit on this list that said, pay Walker whatever money but keep him.  Or even threats that if Gaston doesn't want to sign Walker, they are going to give up on the club.  Gaston has been skewered for threatening to be fiscally responsible.  So don't say there is not a gun to
the Owners' heads, there is and we are holding it.

Everyone that supports fiscal responsibility and believes that we should simply trade Walker and not even attempt to sign him; and who is willing to write to the front office and demand that Gaston not waste the clubs money by signing Walker please stand over on this side.

Everyone who thinks Walker is a great player who deserves Garnett money and that is the franchise and should be kept at this high salary as we can't afford to begin to rebuild again this soon, please stand over here.  And of course, you don't care about Gaston losing money, do you!

I got a feeling which way this vote goes.

Like I said, we are the ones with the guns.  And believe it or not, the Owners have to fear the other owner being insane and signing their players.  Can't collude on things like that.  I think baseball got busted for that.

Cecil Wright wrote:

>
> > Lest Noah or others bash me as too anti-union, I will say I agree with this comment Ray Allen made:
> > "It's not like he put a gun to anyone's head and said give me this much money. That's what they agreed to pay him and that's definitely what they thought he was worth."
> > In theory, the owners should have the sack to tell players where to stuff their exorbitant salary demands, as Herb Kohl said to Glenn Robinson a few years ago. But when your deep-pocketed competitors are able & willing to shell out exorbiatnt sums, it makes it tougher for an owner to stick to his guns and risk losing his fan base because he can't field a competitive team.
> >
> I am not about to bash Peter or anyone else, but if the owners are not
> all on the same page now, they won't be later either.  IMHO this all
> started with the Larry Johnson signing, not the Garnett contract.  I
> don't blame the players for getting whatever they can get from the
> owners.  It is THEIR lunacy which has led to the impasse.  If the owners
> had not agreed to these outrageous sums of money in the first place,
> things would not be so out of control now.  Yes the players are greedy!
> But nobody forces the owners to bow to silly overinflated requests by
> these agents.  They do it for the very reason which Peter alludes to in
> his last paragraph; if they don't pay, one of their competitors will.
>
> Cecil

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Peace,

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