By: themarksmith

themarksmith — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:14:13 +0000

I thought the problem wasn’t the loan, per se. Salcedo was with another agent when he initially tried to enter the MLB, but the loan, supposedly, caused Salcedo to switch agents. Whether or not that’s illegal or immoral, I don’t know, but that’s what I understood.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:51:07 +0000

Excellent POV. With all that MLB has done recently running it’s “business end” of things there is not much doubt in my mind that this is a very logical theory of why this is all of a sudden a big deal to some people. And the lemmings will follow these stories chanting what they are told to chant in regards to how disastrous and wrong this type of behavior is to “the poor underprivileged children”. Meanwhile the “villains” are bettering the lives of many children and their families in a poor underprivileged country. Sure there is benefit, it’s no charity event by a long shot. There will also be room for those who do wish to exploit people, but until now that hasn’t really happened as far as I know. ML baseball is in the business now of exploiting people, organizations, and other businesses. From baseball cards, to beer, to players. They profit from it all and punish who they wish through barring the use of their “product” (banning baseball card manufacturers, really?, multi million dollar contracts to allow the sale of certain beer brands, really?). In the past that wasn’t the “Job” or “duty” of baseball’s regulators.

Comments on: Why are we suddenly hearing about the Boras-Salcedo loan story?

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