European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Baseball pros can Haggle Over pay so Why not soldiers Douglas Baylis first sergeant i had just As Good year As the Captain and i want the same pay Well there. Specialist Baylis ican t give you that much but i will raise your pay to that of an e-5. How s that no Way i want to see an arbitrator Welcome to the wonderful world of salary arbitration which will arrive again after the december win tar baseball meetings. I can t wait until it comes to the military. I Hope eventually each household wll have its own arbitrator. He can decide such i sues a allowances and who pays How much of the Telephone Bill. I wonder How one becomes an arbitrator. Is there opening laugh v9 a school or something just imagine if cd majored in arbitration then i could win almost any argument. Contrary to my desire to decide my own salary believe salary arbitration is a destructive baseball. The most common statistic fans want to know now seems to be $ per year "j"5flfbatted in and earned run averages. The salary arbitration hearings Are becoming than the outcome of the games themselves. Salary arbitration is Only one of the Factor that have sent professional baseball stumbling behind the nil and Aba in fan popularity. With the last dec Ade football has replaced baseball As our nation pastime. The Aba has become the hot test 1mppest sport of the 90s. Even hockey s goal Scotina All Star games Are becoming More exciting she 3-1 yagers found in baseball s Midsummer classics. Baseball has become known More for its outrage Usry paid players and racial slurring mits Talent and tradition. Personally i would have made Marge Schott pay an amount equal to that of the reds payroll toward president Clinton s deficit reduction plan. Talk about Fairl baseball desperately needs revitalization. It Nee to win Back the fans. This requires fan changes that will generate More inter Stone should be to do away a implant a salary Cap. The Nystrand they dispossess " wildly inflated Saary Structure and wholesale movement of players that Hurt baseball. Another problem baseball faces is that Hal of its teams Are out of the Pennant race by jury 4. This i Lav u Cau be Onier Rar i have always loved. Tai if none of these changes occur i still find seat s5 Home plate on a la afternoons still the 1 Especio Fyie feta Myown arbitration Case. 8pr . Send in your column plus photo of yourself to be our guest sunday Magazine the stars and stripes Apo 09211 or Postrach 1114 37,d-64278 Darmstadt Germany. Pim Nourt fester Christopher Lloyd and Debbie Joan Cusack Art wed in Addon in
