I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Don't think Sven has been a successful manager for 25 years and suddenly doesn't know where to play his players. He's the only one I see who reacts well - he knows it's part of football to have big disappointments.

I know what it is to be an owner. The more owners get, the more the players want. I don't want to see what happened to other sports happen to fishing,

I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

I think I should know because I usually had the best seat in the house — on my back.

He was able, in short ... to bring the owners together as partners in a way that has never been done before in baseball.