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Early warning for potential labor unrest

Marlins' recent vow to increase player payroll could have big impact on next labor deal

Originally Published: January 29, 2010
By Jayson Stark | ESPN.com

It didn't look, didn't smell, didn't feel like the kind of moment that would launch a war.

Let's just say it wasn't exactly the sinking of the Lusitania.

Heck, it was only a news release.

But mark the words of the resident psychics here at World Rumblings and Grumblings headquarters: In two years, we'll be looking back on that news release as seven paragraphs that changed baseball.

They were seven meticulously worded paragraphs about those low-budget Florida Marlins, ...

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