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"BASEBALL cooks its books to hide profits and exaggerate losses. The charge is nothing new. Baseball players, agents, and union officials have maintained as much for years. And with each such charge, Commissioner Bud Selig squints, cocks his head to the side, cups his ear, asks for the question to be repeated, and launches into his pat answer, one completely backed by the Old Boy Network of owners.
Doubleday maintains the commissioner was "in cahoots" with Wilpon and Arthur Andersen accountant Robert Starkey to "manufacture phantom operating losses" in baseball's books.
Doubleday's lawyers charged: "In short, MLB - in a desperate attempt to reverse decades of losses to MLB's Players' Association - determined to manufacture phantom operating losses and depress franchise values."
Starkey valued the Mets at $391 million, far less than the Red Sox sold for in a smaller market.
Why would Selig want the Mets undervalued, besides wanting to cozy up to Wilpon and assuring his support on all labor matters? The lower the value of franchises, the more merit there is to his argument that salaries must be suppressed.
And so it seems that baseball's labor strife is headed down a familiar path: The players get blasted from nearly every bar stool in America, stand their ground, and eventually the owners make a gross legal misstep and the players win.
"BASEBALL cooks its books to hide profits and exaggerate losses. The charge is nothing new. Baseball players, agents, and union officials have maintained as much for years. And with each such charge, Commissioner Bud Selig squints, cocks his head to the side, cups his ear, asks for the question to be repeated, and launches into his pat answer, one completely backed by the Old Boy Network of owners.
Doubleday maintains the commissioner was "in cahoots" with Wilpon and Arthur Andersen accountant Robert Starkey to "manufacture phantom operating losses" in baseball's books.
Doubleday's lawyers charged: "In short, MLB - in a desperate attempt to reverse decades of losses to MLB's Players' Association - determined to manufacture phantom operating losses and depress franchise values."
Starkey valued the Mets at $391 million, far less than the Red Sox sold for in a smaller market.
Why would Selig want the Mets undervalued, besides wanting to cozy up to Wilpon and assuring his support on all labor matters? The lower the value of franchises, the more merit there is to his argument that salaries must be suppressed.
And so it seems that baseball's labor strife is headed down a familiar path: The players get blasted from nearly every bar stool in America, stand their ground, and eventually the owners make a gross legal misstep and the players win.
