Comments on: Dodgers players could theoretically become free agents if the team misses payroll. But they won’t.

By: fearlessleader

fearlessleader — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:09:29 +0000

You’re sexist, aren’t you, SmackSaw?

By: bobulated

bobulated — Fri, 06 May 2011 05:27:06 +0000

For minor league free agents to make the team as replacements they would have a choice of either Frank or Jamie on the “tryout” couch. Very fair IMHO.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:28:22 +0000

Nothing of the sort would happen. Not being able to meet payroll does not mean they have no money at all. Twenty-five guys making the minimum would cost roughly $8 million over the remainder of the season. They would call up minor leaguers to replace any players they lost. As for the lost players, there would be no dispersal draft – they’d be free agents, free to go to the highest bidder. The winning teams wouldn’t have to expand rosters, they’d just cut or send down the number of necessary players.p

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:08:32 +0000

bob; if you suggest that they pull pieces of Frank or Jamie McCourt’s clothes off after every win, I for one will start a campaign to have you hounded from this blog, through the streets of Pamplona, and up the steps of the Empire State building until you are brought bay and forced to watch POV cam video of every one of Charlie Sheen’s live act performances. Harsh, true, but you’ll need a short sharp shock to teach you to never suggest such a thing. Ever.

By: SmackSaw

SmackSaw — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:23:05 +0000

To contact the reporter on this story: Rob Gloster in San Francisco

Giants fan, I’ll bet.

By: SmackSaw

SmackSaw — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:20:54 +0000

You’re a female aren’t you, Jamie?

By: rapmusicmademedoit

rapmusicmademedoit — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:53:37 +0000

Craig, chile please………….

By: goforthanddie

goforthanddie — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:27:59 +0000

Gotta love the Hanson brothers

By: jamie54

jamie54 — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:50:19 +0000

Don’t buy that statement at all. What about all those games to be played that could not without a team? And that would leave an uneven number of games played the remainder of the year, especially in the NL West. Would rosters expand to pick up the players? Would MLB hold a ‘draft’ in order to pick them up? Don’t buy any of it. MLB would pick them up, that’s why they stepped in in the first place.

By: bobulated

bobulated — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:30:40 +0000

I have something I think you all ought to know about.It seems that Mrs. Phelps doesn’t think too highly of our worth. She put this team together because she thought we’d be bad enough to finish dead last, knocking attendance down to the point where she could move the team to Miami… and get rid of all of us for better personnel.