Comments on: Wilpon and Katz fire back. Which provides an opportunity for perspective. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:27:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: iranuke http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120548 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:19:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120548 Judging by all the stuff thrown out there, I’m reminded of the old saw “Where there is smoke, there is fire.” The extremes for the old saw are a small fire with lots of wet straw or a raging inferno. You won’t know which until you go look, and my opinion is that the legal process will take about as long as the Barry Bonds trial has taken to get to trial.

]]> By: paperlions http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120500 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:13:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120500 It is hard to trust people who keep the nature of their operations secret, and whose public proclamations are regularly shown to be inconsistent with fact. No one likes people they know they can’t trust and no one likes being lied to.

]]> By: Reflex http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120493 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:08:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120493 I can take a wild guess as to why Craig got included in thier release. It might involve an employee working in thier PR or legal department being an active regular here. Not going to name names, of course. Wouldn’t want to influence the jury pool.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120415 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:43:28 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120415 Craig; 1 line you wrote sticks out “And while we like to pretend that we live in a classless society, ignoring the distrust and disdain between rich and poor (and poor and rich) is rather silly.” It seems to partially answer a question that’s been bugging me. Bear with me please;
I seem to recall some amount of dislike for Louis Castillo (scrappy ballplayer that he is). He simply wasn’t very good in his role for the team. He possessed largely poor stats , was overpaid, and the team lost a lot, some of which was directly attributable to his moves. If you take the name “Louis Castillo” out of that previous sentence and stick “Fred Wilpon” into it, you’d still get a very justifiable statement. And yet there are those who will vigorously defend the latter while vigorously castigating the former. Unaccountable, eh?

]]> By: Craig Calcaterra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120373 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:43:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120373 Not really. But given the rhetoric right now — when parties are accusing one another of lying, it’s VERY personal — I’d say that we’re not anywhere close to that. Things are in ramp-up stage right now. Settlements tend to come after things plateau for a bit or as a trial grows closer.

]]> By: Professor Longnose http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120370 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:37:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120370 Craig,

As a lawyer do you have any idea how long this might take to settle?

]]> By: steve keane http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120363 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:11:09 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120363 more like a large boxer

]]> By: jgraening http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120355 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:47:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120355 I don’t know how anything 94 pages long can be called a brief.

]]> By: steve keane http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120346 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:27:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120346 As a Mets fan today is a celebration day not just because of the release of Oliver Perez but the fact that Sandy Alderson is running the baseball operations and has final say on who stays and who goes.

Alderson put Baby Jeffey in the corner!!!!

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120342 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:17:28 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120342 Aw darn, the superscript HTML tag didn’t work. Bummer.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120341 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:16:55 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120341 Chipwich2

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/21/wilpon-and-katz-fire-back-which-provides-an-opportunity-for-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-120340 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:15:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=46438#comment-120340 Mommy, mommy… make them go away!!!!!!

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