European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 17,1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 for All the Nice things owners found time to say about themselves thursday its important to remember with whom we re dealing. Commentary and a week from now when baseball begins operating under a new set of rules fans should too b ginning with this one if the 1995 season dawns with be replacement players on the diamonds ignore it. Stay Home and leave the Money in your pocket. Done to go to games. Done to watch them on to done to follow them in the newspapers. And especially done to buy anything a pennants pencils Caps cards shirts shoelaces or even those cute Little Bobbing head dolls a that has a major league logo on it. On thursday the owners this committee and the clubs feel very strongly that we should keep coming Back again keep coming Back again keep coming Back again for a Way to solve  ated by the game. The Only people who deserve it less than the players Are the owners. Ful most players Are arrogant unreasonable Ungratc-1 and out of touch with the rest of the world in a Jim Litke voted 25-3 to delay simple a a a a a menting their salary Cap plan by a week ostensibly to Call me cynical but Selig doth protest too much Way Only Rich people can afford to be. Almost All the and a Given How Many times he repeated himself a a a too often. Considering the predictable Way the. Labor dispute has unfolded this postponement is nothing More than the owners preparing a defense should they get dragged before the National labor relations Board. Asked what would happen if negotiators for the two sides prove no More successful m the next seven Days than they have been during the last 23 months  owner Jerry Mcmorris shrugged. A if we can to i presume Well see litigation legislation and everything  Vwe presume that a everything else a at least As far As next season is concerned includes replacement people owners Quot Are All of those things Only More so a if Only because they have a lot More Money if they go ahead and stage the 1995 season using players they  recognize a even in uniform a the owners will have displayed a contempt for the fans on a much grander scale than anything Vince Coleman and his kind Are capable of. After All Coleman a firecracker incident frightful As it was was spontaneous and limited to a Small group who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Compare that to the owners plan give peace one More Chance. Acting commissioner and Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig said he and his colleagues gave their negotiating committee time to make one last Appeal to the players Union a for reason and for common sense. _ coming ers will continue battling for Public sympathy. No. To blow up the game As we know it an Start All Over. Their Campaign has relied on careful orchestration a dumping commissioner Fay Vincent reopening the labor agreement and delaying their initial contract offer for 18 months. Unless the owners Are genuinely interested in Mak a taking unilateral action is a last resort. If we do my so it will be done very reluctantly a Selig added a Only when we have exhausted All of of our options. If the fight spills into the 1995 season the Hether and How often you reach into your Wallet. Remember Winner will be Deci spins ded ing a Deal the Only Way they will succeed is if paying Adf a ultimately by whether and _ Ito your Wallet what former Pitcher Jim Bouton said about major league baseball and the huge sums of Money goner customers pretend the replacement players arc playing real baseball. A v fans know better. Here a hoping they show it by just saying no. A. The Amoco att pro a. Clippers Chalky up third win in week by the associated press the los Angeles clippers still have the worst record in the Aba but just barely. By beating the slumping Golden state warriors 89-82 thursday night los Angeles improved to 3-18 an moved to a Naif game behind the Minnesota Tim be wolves 3-17 in the unofficial Battle to avoid being labelled a worst team a a in professional  throw out a 46-Point loss to Portland and it was actually quite a Posi live week for the clippers who won three of five games after dropping their first 16 to fall one loss Short of the Miami heats record for the worst Start to a sea son. A a we re sneaking up on teams right now. We have our Confidence and we re ready to go. We got that first win and now we re carrying it Over a Rookie la mond Murray said. A last nights game the Blowout loss to Portland was Yery important because the players were angry after the game and i hoped that they could use that Ange night a Clipper coach Bill Fitch said. Loped that they could use that anger to meanwhile its been a disastrous week for the warriors who lost their eighth a. A it. A a a straight one night after learning that coach Don Nelson had been hospitalized with pneumonia. His son assistant coach Donn Nelson filled in against the clippers. A a a. In other games Seattle beat Portland 114-103, Dallas Defeated Boston 122-113, the los Angeles lakers beat Houston 9794, Denver downed Miami 101-99, Utah Defeated Washington 95-85 and new York topped Sacramento 94-84. The clippers who got 18 Points and 11 rebounds from Loy Vaught and 22 Points from Malik Sealy never trailed after the Midway Point of the first Quarter Latrell Sprewell scored seven of his 27 Points in the last 3 minutes As the warriors pulled to 81-80 with 1 28 remaining of 17,277 at Anaheim Arena about three times the number they be been drawing at the los Angeles sports Arena. Supersonics 114, Trail blazers 103 Shawn Kemp scored 26 Points and Gary Payton had 23 Points and nine assists to Pace Seattle a Victory. Cliff Robinson had 26 Points and 15 rebounds and Clyde Drexler 26 Points for visiting Portland. Mavericks 122, celtics 113 at Dallas Jim Jackson scored 40 Points and Jamal Mashburn added 27 As the Mavericks turned in one of their Best All around efforts of the season despite playing without suspended Forward Roy Tarpley. Popeye Jones had a career High. 25 Points with 20 rebounds and Jason Kidd and 10 Points and 10 assists. Lakers 97, rockets 94 at Houston the lakers won their third straight Road game and their 10th in 12 games Overall. Cedric Ceballos scored a season High 36 Points and Eddie Jones added 16 Points for the lakers who held the lockets to 40 percent shooting. Nuggets 101, heat 99 Rodney Rogers hit a game winning 8-footer with three seconds left As Denver overcame 29 turnovers and a 20-Point deficit to win at Miami. Reggie Williams activated from the injured Fis but Vaught hit a 15-foot jumper 12 Sec Ewell i ones later and after Sprewell made one of two free throws Sealy made two free ids the warriors Tom Gugliotta takes a rebound away from Malik Sealy of the clippers. Throws with eight seconds left for a four Point clippers Lead. The game was played before a crowd i .4 a 1 Jared list before the game led Denver with 21 Points. Jazz 95, bullets 85 Utah won its sixth straight Road game by defeating Washington a we started out with exactly the reverse a we  win on the Road and we won at Home a said Jeff Hornacek who led Utah with 22 Points a now we re winning on the Road. Were just executing better on the Road right now Quot knocks 94, Kings 84 Patrick Ewing had 27 Points and 18 rebounds and John Starks broke out of a slump with 19 Points for new York at Sacramento /