11.   It would be difficult for the two sides to hold a dispersal draft of the players, then have the arbitrator rule that the owners acted improperly.

12.   New York picked up Mathis from L.A. in the dispersal draft that followed the allocation of Luis Hernandez to the Galaxy.

13.   One possibility is a dispersal draft if two teams are contracted.

14.   That would leave the players from the Devil Rays and Angels to be moved throughout the league in a dispersal draft.

15.   The long-term alternative for too many major league baseball teams is to pack up, disband and volunteer to go into a dispersal draft.

16.   The league will hold a dispersal draft for the players on Miami and Tampa Bay on Friday.

17.   They had talked about mid-December as the time for a dispersal draft of the players on the teams to be eliminated.

18.   Top competitive clubs such as the Yankees, Astros and Diamondbacks cannot count on improving through a dispersal draft, though, according to one National League GM.

19.   When the two sides tried last month to negotiate terms of a dispersal draft, the lawyers got nowhere.

20.   When would the dispersal draft take place?