Gene Orza Believe Quotations

There will be no split season. It's not a negotiating ploy, believe me. It's their decision and that's what we will do.

We have a clock. We're not going to play this event without umpires. And I believe that the basic problem the WUA faces in our continuing discussions with them is that that clock may have stopped before they became more reasonable in their demands. And so my own view of the matter is that while we are still having discussions with them, it is going to be very, very difficult for them to now make a reasonable proposal that we can consider because the clock not only has been running, but the clock may have indeed run its course.

We don't believe the tournament will create more injuries than spring training otherwise would.

We don't believe the tournament is going to create any greater number of injuries than spring training itself would.