Baseball Report: Union Denies Report On Expos Going to D.C.
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Major League Baseball players' union officials on Thursday denied reports on ESPN that they told some Montreal Expos players during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that they're likely to be playing in the Washington, D.C., area next year.
"What we essentially told them is that we have reason to expect Major League Baseball will make a decision, hopefully by the owners' meeting in a few weeks ... and that a number of places are on the list," said MLB Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr. "Nobody gave them assurances that they will be going to any location as opposed to anyplace else. People can make their own judgments on that, but we didn't make it for them."See the full content of this document
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Baseball Report: Union Denies Report On Expos Going to D.C.
The players union has no role in the relocation process.
MLB president Bob DuPuy called the report that the Expos will be playing on the Washington area next year "preposterous, not true.""Apparently, union representatives offered their opinion ...See the full content of this document
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