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TMQ Nation fires back

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Paul Jackson of Sydney, Australia noted, "Last week's TMQ had exactly 8,888 words. Was that a subliminal shot at NFL parity?" Defending Gene Upshaw, I noted that his cooperative bargaining approach has resulted in a 132 percent real-dollar increase in average NFL player pay since 1994, while the MLB union's confrontational approach resulted in a 71 percent increase for major league baseball players in the same period. Jeff Buchholz of Ithaca, N.Y. asked, "Are you comparing the fictional contrac ...

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