Donald Fehr wouldn't predict yesterday if baseball is headed to its ninth work stoppage since 1972 but said the atmosphere isn't as "poisoned" as before the 1994-95 strike. "In 1994 by this time, there was overt hostility, there were overt threats," the players' association head said after a two-hour meeting with the White Sox, his first stop on a tour of all 30 spring training camps. "Yeah, there are some rumblings and people talking the way they always do," he said. "But the rhetoric is not as loud, not as insistent and not as confrontational as it was then. I think if you'll notice, there i...
