Everything is temporary.

"The nation's media, once hostile to labor, tended to side with the players in every labor dispute.

• Something had to change.
• The owners just weren't going to take it anymore.

• This was their game and they wanted it back.

• Beginning with Vincent's ouster in 1992, they set out to take it."

From Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball by Howard Bryant, published in 2005.

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From the greatly missed Doug Pappas' website:

• "April 29, 2002: Text of bill pending in Congress to repeal MLB's antitrust exemption as it relates to contraction and franchise relocation.

This is the bill introduced in response to MLB's threatened contraction of the Expos and Twins. Like the Curt Flood Act, it's much longer than it needs to be

• because the minor leagues have such clout in Congress that no baseball antitrust bill can pass without saying in about three different ways that it will have no effect on the minors.

Nobody wants to be portrayed as the Representative who killed the local AA team, even though the recent experience of independent minors like the Northern League suggests the minors could survive on their own."

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