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TALK OF MLB CONSOLIDATION HEATS UP AFTER SI REPORT

          Several MLB owners are "quietly discussing a plan
     whereby" the league "would select an even number of
     struggling teams -- two at first, perhaps two more later,
     buy out the franchises and disperse the players in a draft
     among the remaining clubs," according to Pearlman & Cannella
     of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (See THE DAILY, 8/2). Rockies Owner
     Jerry McMorris: "We have to start asking whether we're
     putting money into markets that aren't going to support
     teams."  Pearlman & Cannella write that owners "toying with
     such a plan" all have mid-to-high payrolls.  Pearlman &
     Cannella: "Consolidation has its opponents, as well,
     starting with small-market owners."  One anonymous NL owner,
     on consolidation: "This thing has legs.  I wouldn't say
     there's a 50-50 chance it happens, but I wouldn't say it's
     80-20 that it doesn't" (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 8/30 issue).
          SMALL-MARKET REAX: Royals CEO David Glass said that
     "the theory was news to him": "I don't know anything about
     it at all.  It's an interesting theory: `If they can't make
     it, get rid of them.'  I can't imagine it happening" (K.C.
     STAR, 8/29).  Twins President Jerry Bell: "I've heard the
     talk. ... I never thought it was serious, and I still don't
     think it is" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 8/28). In Minneapolis,
     Sid Hartman quoted "one of the more powerful" MLB owners as
     saying, "It would cost too much money to eliminate those
     franchises" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/29).

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