By: relaxweb

relaxweb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:48:19 +0000

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By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:33:58 +0000

No doubt Craig began cracking up the moment he saw my handle appear on his radar screen under this blog. He knows what’s coming.
First of all, though, a corrective: the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County took no “gamble” on this boondoggle. It was a backroom deal bulldozed through by interested parties, i.e., construction companies, county councilpersons on the usual take, one pompous jackass of a county executive, you name it. The polls conclusively demonstrated time after time that the voters of this county were overwhelmingly opposed to financing that cheapskate bastard Loria’s playpen for him, knowing damned well that he had no intention whatsoever of keeping any promises – all made with his tentacles crossed – to spend for a winner down here. Anybody been to Montreal lately?
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Loria played the Expos like Frank Lorenzo played Eastern Airlines before a Federal judge had to step in and boot his bloodsucking ass out of the industry altogether – too late, of course, to save the airline. It is of course far too much to ask of the National Association of Streetwalkers, occasionally known as Congress, to pull Loria’s plug by yanking baseball’s preposterous antitrust exemption and restore the game to the free market, where half of the shenanigans in which it regularly engages would result in flushing franchises from coast to coast (with potential disastrous consequences for the aquifer, no doubt).
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Now the Player’s Association could make a negotiating point of this problem of owners sitting on their slush funds without having to plough the money back into payroll – as in, for example, an NFL that has been ascendant in terms of popularity and significance over baseball for several decades now. Of course, they would be at cross-purposes with themselves to do so, since the owners would probably respond by digging in over the salary cap issue. And anyway, folks get so distracted by what a bunch of assholes the owners are, that they only perceive what a bunch of prima donnas the players are when a strike is looming. Six of one….
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Now as far as Uggla or Cantu, really, given that this team is not going to compete in a division that includes earnest wannabes like the Braves, bumbling wannabes like the Mets and serious willbes like the Phillies (we’ll not waste space here on the Gnats), the squatting (in both senses) don’t-wannabes of Joeprodolshark Stadium can keep or trade either one or both. No one is going to show up anyway. We care less and less with every season that this travesty continues to unfold. Why should it be otherwise?

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By: relaxweb

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