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Either spend on payroll, or give it back

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Never in most of our lifetimes has the following sentence inspired less (A) trepidation, (B) disgust or (C) outright panic: Baseball's labor deal expires in less than a year. Yep. Dec. 19 would be the date. Be sure to circle it on your calendar, so you can remember to hang Bud Selig's picture from your Christmas tree. It's just 7½ months away. Amazingly, though, we sense virtually no chance of anybody doing anything stupid this time around. No strikes. ...

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