Comments on: The implications of yesterday's Marlins-MLB-MLBPA deal

By: NFL news

NFL news — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:49 +0000

I know this is really boring and you are skipping to the next comment, but I just wanted to throw you a big thanks – you cleared up some things for me!

By: Salvatore Merkle

Salvatore Merkle — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:30:58 +0000

You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:58:59 +0000

Once again, MLB shows how it closes its eyes to all around it. It did it with steroids, and it does it with the owners, using both sides for its own benefit… emphasis on “using”. No fair… unless you take responsibility, also, which it NEVER does.
And this story is not even carried on mlb.com. Big surprise, eh ?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:07:02 +0000

Can you see this shit-eating grin I’m wearing? I must look like someone who just threw up and feels much better for it.
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The very idea of putting a gun to the Marlins’ collective heads strikes me as very funny. I have this image of Loria, Beinfest, the Chihuahua, whoever is their public relations director this year (talk about being appointed lookout on the Titanic!), some suit from the league office and Loria’s ex-wife’s divorce lawyer sitting around a table passing an empty pistol around, pointing it at their own heads and pulling the trigger while laughing their asses off. Then Loria gets the pistol, closes his eyes, and pulls the trigger – and opens them to see Mike Weiner, dressed in a North Vietnamese lieutenant’s uniform complete with red stars on his epaulets, placing a new pistol on the table that isn’t made of plastic.
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Ands anyway, the threat here would be to the rest of us, not to them, if someone actually pulled the trigger on the new gun. There’d be a sudden, catastrophic drop in local atmospheric pressure as air rushed in to fill all those yawning vacuums and we’d be in hurricane season five and a half months early.

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:29:49 +0000

Did I say build???? I meant keep a winning team…

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:27:27 +0000

Lol!! Good for Uggla. This team jerks players around more than any other team in the league. If I were a Rookie, I’d be scared to sign any deal with the Marlins. They are run by true Bastards with no desire to build a winning team.

By: Joey B

Joey B — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:53:44 +0000

I agree with you IRT settling this without the drama. I know everyone involved are all millionaires, but I could do without someone screaming that it’s about putting food on the table.
Having said that, “which commits teams to spending revenue sharing money “to improve its performance on the field.”, strikes me as inequitable. Why should the Marlins have to spend the money to improve its performance on the field when KC, Pitt, Cincy and the Mets don’t?
I’m not saying they don’t spend money, but they are obviously not spending to improve their performance on the field.