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highlights December 06, 2001  Owners must 'just say no' By Dan
Patrick  What's worse for the game of baseball -- the greedy
agent and ball player or the naive owner? (Greedy agents won out
by a slim margin in the Dan Patrick Web site poll, but it was
pretty much neck-and-neck.)  To me, it's a chicken-and-egg
question. Don't blame the agent or the player for having a big
wish list. And don't ask them to provide financial sanity when
the owners never consider that approach.  Alex Rodriguez
Shortstop Alex Rodriguez is expected to become the game's
highest-paid player.  Still, I don't know how you can claim to
be a team player and then ask for things that clearly do not
have the best interest of the team in mind.  As Cal Ripken Jr.
said, you can't ask the players, the agents and Players
Association to protect the owners from themselves. The stance
that teams have to take with Alex Rodriguez is "just say no." No
one is putting a gun to their heads to sign h