No strike: Players, MLB agree on deal through 2006

Major League Baseball and its players have averted a strike and, after an all-night negotiation session, have agreed to a new four-year contract.

The tentative agreement is through the 2006 season.

"There is no strike,'' said Atlanta pitcher Tom Glavine, the National League player representative.

Commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr attended a morning bargaining session that wrapped up the agreement. It was the first time in nine rounds of labor talks since 1972 that baseball avoided a work stoppage.

I'm not surprised, but if the Mariners were four games in the lead instead of four games behind!

Maybe this will signal the end of MLB's self-destruction. A boy can hope!  

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