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CALLING ALL OWNERS: SELIG SETS DECEMBER MEETING IN CHICAGO

          MLB Commissioner Bud Selig "sent out an urgent message"
     to all teams Friday that he is organizing an "emergency"
     owners meeting for December 3 in Chicago "to address the
     widening gulf" in MLB payrolls, according to Peter Gammons
     of the BOSTON GLOBE.  Selig "has called" for GMs and other
     club officials to attend the meeting in addition to the
     owners.  At the beginning of this decade, Gammons noted that
     the highest and lowest MLB payrolls were separated by less
     than $15M: the A's topped the league at $22.8M, while the
     Orioles were at the bottom with $8M.  In '99, the A's $17M
     payroll will be $65M less than the Yankees or Dodgers. 
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/22).  In N.Y., Murray Chass wrote on
     payroll disparity and noted that "as the price of winning
     escalates, the reality of losing sends payrolls plummeting." 
     MLB Exec VP/Operations Sandy Alderson said that MLB payrolls
     are not just increasing, but some are going down as some
     teams are "giving up."  Alderson: "There are those [teams]
     at $20 million [who] say to themselves going to $30 million
     doesn't appreciably change their chances, and there are
     those at $30 million who say we're no better off at 30 than
     at 20, so they go down."  More Alderson: "If [the union]
     find[s] that 80 percent of their players feel they're out of
     the pennant race even before the season starts, then it's an
     issue that is common to both of us" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/21).

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