I Was Right ... Sort Of

Baseball owners = Terrorists. Nice.

There's no proof of course, but other people are starting to think collusion is happening.:

“There are a lot of rumblings that all the teams know exactly what everyone is doing with free agents,” one prominent agent said ...

But agents acknowledge that the clubs have a ready-made excuse, or cover, for not acting as they have in previous years: the economy.

“There’s continuing pressure for teams to cut their budgets,” an agent said. “Teams that intended to be aggressive had to cut back because budgets have been lowered.”

I said it about a month ago, partly in jest partly not. I doubt that baseball GM's are really colluding at all. The economy has caused them to react/overreact and be more careful when spending their money. This is more how they probably should spend their money. As a result, free-agents aren't getting the money they used to get. As for all the rumors, A) not every team is floating rumors (don't you need all or most for collusion?); B) there are always rumors; C) there are a lot of rumors, mostly conflicting. I'm not convinced, but I'd like to say,"I told you so." And when I'm wrong, someone please throw that back in my face.