In a message of  to Tal Ron (1:121/63@fidonet), you 
wrote:
 TR> The Brewers had no choice.  They lost all their players to free-agency
 TR> the last  few years.  Surhoff, Hamilton, Molitor, Sheffield, etc.
 EG> First off, they traded Sheffield. Secondly, Molitor was giving them the
 EG> discount rate and they decided to lowball him. The differences between
 EG> what they were offering and what the free agent wanted when he left the
 EG> team was often very small and if they had come up a few hundred 
housand,
 EG> they would have been able to keep them.
And then they compounded the stupidity by trying to show that they were 
"spending money" by giving it to Franklin Stubbs.
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