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Players, owners prove pigs can fly

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

ST. LOUIS -- Until the Cubs win the World Series or Eric Byrnes combs his hair, this will have to serve as the most amazing moment in baseball history: The owners and players agreed to a new contract without publicly insulting each other once. It's incredible. After decades of name-calling, strikes, lockouts and negotiations that resembled the "Who's on First?" routine, the two sides settled on a new five-year contract without shouting "You guys are a bunch of greedy @#$& pigs" and "So's your o ...

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