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To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.