1.   A couple of years ago, when this newest labor mess started, the owners proposed a salary cap based on a percentage of revenues.

2.   But before the mess started, Brown had retired six consecutive batters, including a called strikeout of Bernie Williams and a whiff of Tino Martinez.

3.   The magazine mess started over, of all things, Roseanne, the television personality.

4.   The rest the picture looks like a Picasso offering, a jumbled mess of slow starts, disappointing outings, slight recoveries.

5.   The Subic port mess started when SBMA disqualified ICTSI, which had made an offer thrice as high as that tendered by Hutchison.