1.   Players are certainly entitled to make what the free market bears, but they are also in the business of being liked and cared about.

2.   Terry Steinbach, Scott Servais, Tom Lampkin, Mike Macfarlane, Joe Oliver, Kirt Manwaring and Chad Kreuter represent the best the free-agent market bears.

3.   The big question is how much of a price spike can the retail market bear?

4.   They want to continue the existing system, under which players are paid whatever the market bears.

5.   So argues inveterate market bear Michael Metz, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer and Co., in a recent research report.

6.   The successful offering indicates Poles are becoming used to market bears and bulls only seven years after the Warsaw Stock Exchange was founded.