It was baseball as usual at the stadium yesterday. But the behind the scenes maneuvering attracted more attention. Pirate President Dan Galbraith met with the executive director of the Louisiana Superdome for two hours and then told reporters something has to break in his dispute over the terms of the stadium lease. But those that we've tried to talk to don't really appreciate what *** major league franchise means to *** city. They've taken it for granted and they say, well, look, Alberts can afford it. So let's don't worry about it. I'm telling you we've come to the end of that road and if they think there aren't viable alternatives out there, there might be some very surprised people this morning. Mayor Caliri wasted no time in blasting what he called an illegal move by that New Orleans group. The federal court that we filed *** suit in is saying to them and I'm saying to the city of New Orleans to *** out of our business. We have *** binding agreement between the Pittsburgh parts and the city of Pittsburgh to the year 2000 and that under this lawsuit and under *** point of law, *** third party is not permitted to try to entice one of those parties to either leave or break that lease. So, very simply, I'm telling them to stay out of our business. We'll work out our differences up here. If they want to come to Pittsburgh, let them buy *** ticket and watch *** game that produced this reaction from pirate marketing director, Jack Schrum. Our feeling is this, that New Orleans people came up, they came up to talk to the whole world of baseball and to say that if there's ever *** franchise available, they'd be interested in having it. But they also said they're here with *** big if and they'll talk to us again. There's nothing scheduled and they'll talk to us again if something should happen in our court case. So I think all that has really been settled that they're just waiting to see if anything happens, if it does are interested. If it happens in another city, if it would happen before Pittsburgh, they'd go that direction. They're really talking to the world of baseball on it. One wonders what the great pirate shortstop, Hanna Wagner would have said about all this, the ball club suing the city. And now in this lawsuit, the city is suing another city veiled threats to leave warnings. You better not. And the possibility on top of all that of *** players strike at the end of next month, Wagner, you had it easy. You lived in *** simpler time. *** channel four action news.