Show Breez Through f Sports Sorts w 5 0 H t 4 By Eric Bresee five Fifty-five days and counting five Fifty days since team owners locked out their players R Mr five Fifty days since millionaires began fighting with millionaires over billions of dollars The labor strife began on July 1 and is still every basketball fans fans' heart The owners want to implement a ahard ahard ahard hard salary cap meaning no team could sign even their own free tree agents and go over the cap while some players want the lower echelon of player to be he capable of making more money However there could be some C light at the end of the tunnel On Monday arbitrator John Feerick Feerick will make a significant ruling on the status of the players' players guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed contracts If Feerick decides the contracts are guaranteed through the lockout owners may be more inclined to open 4 talks with the players union If he decides the contracts are not notI I guaranteed then players may be willing willing willing will will- ing to compromise with the owners No matter what happens these theseS S greedy money-grubbing money demons would be best served not to lose any W regular season games to the e lockout 4 The currently is the only league of the four major sports not to S lose any season regular-season games because of a strike or lockout By F. F most accounts the is close to losing that distinction Let me be the first to say if a single single single sin sin- gle game is lost I will never again buy merchandise wear clothing or attend an game My only hope is the rest of the basketball fans tans in the nation will join me in this boycott If the owners are going to act like babies and walk out of negotiations when they hear something they dont don't like screw them If players are going to ask for ridiculous demands they know the owners cant can't agree to screw them too I will not put a dime in their pock pock- ets To borrow a phrase from Utah's new red-headed red step-child step Karl Malone its it's time the fans started looking out for the fans Ticket prices are soaring to astronomical heights because of the scourge of the How much longer is Joe Fan going to stand for this n If I had my druthers these egotistical egotistical egotistical vermin can stay locked out and lose the entire season They obviously obvious- obvious r ly Iy didn't learn from Major League Baseball so these poverty stricken fiends deserve what they get Come Nov 3 when the season is supposed to commence Ill I'll be watching the New York Rangers take on the New Jersey Devils Needless to say I wont won't miss the 0 |