Comments on: Hall of Famer Eddie Murray charged with insider trading

By: hittfamily

hittfamily — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:38:59 +0000

To me, it is a museum. They could do what the WWE does, and just hold a ceremony, and put their pic on their website. However, they do have a musuem, which I have taken my kids to several times. When they get rid of the museum, get rid of the clause.

On another note, why are so many people here say ing things like “too bad he got caught up in this mess”. You do know that he stole money right? That is what insider trading is. He didn’t rob a gas station for $50, but rather robbed investors for $250,000. He either bought from an unassuming schmuck, or sold a dying stock to an unassuming schmuck.

By: ihatepancakes

ihatepancakes — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:38:14 +0000

I think he knew about the charges when that picture was taken, he looks angry. Then again, he always looked angry.

By: mudhead123

mudhead123 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:53:54 +0000

As it turns out…,

By: millmannj

millmannj — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:15:37 +0000

Agreed raysfan. In Cleveland recently, walked through Heritage Park area of ballpark, one of the players the Indians honored with a plaque was Joe Jackson. It mentions his accomplishments and then ends with line “barred from baseball for life due to 1919 Black Sox scandal.” (paraphrasing) Why can’t something similar be added to HOF plaques of Rose, Bonds, McGwire, Clemens, Raffy, etc?

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:33:55 +0000

Better idea–ditch the morality clause altogether. The Hall is a museum, not a church. Besides, it has never been applied even-handedly. If it were, Ty Cobb, Orlando Cepeda, and Fergie Jenkins would not be in, among others. Much better to elect players based only upon on-field accomplishments and honestly present the good and bad in their lives.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:44:23 +0000

“Obama just picked some random black man’s name out of a hat to crack down on to make it seem like he’s not giving his people a ‘free ride’ at the expense of the white race.”

- Corpulent drug addict, Rush Limbaugh

By: hittfamily

hittfamily — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:34:28 +0000

Corzine wants to go at it again too. A recent story tied him to wanting to start his own oqn hedge fund.

By: jayquintana

jayquintana — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:02:14 +0000

Eddie Murray, of course, was the finest example of selflessness and playing the game for love, not money.

By: raider2124

raider2124 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:58:09 +0000

Excellent point steveohoo. I wad about to post that. 99% of the public dont know about it either.

By: randomdigits

randomdigits — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:44:48 +0000

He had problem relating to players when he was a hitting coach.

By: randomdigits

randomdigits — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:43:21 +0000

Eddie has never had a problem keeping his mouth shut.

By: tuftsb

tuftsb — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:47:18 +0000

I wondered when they’d get him for insider trading on OJ futures……

By: tuftsb

tuftsb — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:46:17 +0000

So they got DeCinces and Murray and not Jon Corzine?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:43:27 +0000

This is small potatoes compared to the whole bank/Wall street corruption – plus they should just rename insider trading to “being in congress”. Check out the gain in personal wealth before and after serving with very little salary to account for it. These guys don’t just become stock market mavens by being elected.

By: kalinedrive

kalinedrive — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:38:55 +0000

Yes, I was just wondering when we were going to hear about the penalties imposed on congressmen and Wall Street executives. I’m sure when they get through investigating former baseball players for these measly amounts they’ll go after the big fish. Right? No? Hmm.

By: steveohho

steveohho — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:27:55 +0000

Its too bad Murray or DeCinces were never elected to congress in which case they wouldn’t have been charged. One rule for the rulers and another for the ruled I suppose.

By: rooney24

rooney24 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:59:11 +0000

Wow! Crazy that the fines for both DeCinces and Murray were considerably more than what they profited. That is likely a good thing. I just didn’t realize how hard they hit on those crimes. If you get down the line like that (getting a tip from someone else), you wonder exactly how much they knew, or if the first person just said, “This is going to make money, buy some now”. Obviously, Eddie must have known something, to make him just pay up (or just has enough money that $358K doesn’t make it worth his while to fight), but it just makes me wonder how much he actually knew.

By: sabatimus

sabatimus — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:49:07 +0000

Bahahaha

By: rockthered1286

rockthered1286 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:43:59 +0000

Interesting fact about Eddie:

He recently came out and said he has no interest in getting back into the game of baseball. Why you ask? Because he cannot relate to todays players, who “don’t put winning games ahead of contracts and themselves.”

And he said this to the local media. That speaks volumes, you know, considering he hates the media and what have you.

By: hittfamily

hittfamily — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:39:29 +0000

Kick him out. He is a scumbag thief, and should go to jail.

By: thefalcon123

thefalcon123 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:29:41 +0000

Well, I think history proved Mitchell page the superior player. Am I right everybody?

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:28:51 +0000

No doubt redguy. But his Raw special was even better.

By: The Dangerous Mabry

The Dangerous Mabry — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:27:02 +0000

Character Clause, anyone?

(I like Eddie Murray. But it’s worth pointing this sort of thing out.)

By: moagecu

moagecu — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:25:54 +0000

Interesting fact about Eddie Murray’s 1977 Rookie if the Year award:

He won it.

By: Matthew Pouliot

Matthew Pouliot — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:18:13 +0000

Eddie Murray: 88 RBI
Mitchell Page: 75 RBI

Page also had 42 steals in 47 attempts. Outstanding rookie season, very good sophomore campaign and then that was pretty much it.

By: thefalcon123

thefalcon123 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Interesting fact about Eddie Murray’s 1977 Rookie of the Year Award:

He didn’t deserve it. At all.

Eddie Murray: 611 AB, 81 Runs, 29 2B, 27 HR, 88 RBI, .283/.333/.470 2.9 WAR
Mitchell Paige: 501 AB, 85 Runs, 28 2B, 21 HR, 75 RBI, .307/.405/.521 5.8 WAR

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:07:22 +0000

Based on this.. “Murray agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by paying $358,151″ sounds like they either had enough evidence on him or he got scared and gave in to avoid further penalty.

By: redguy12588

redguy12588 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:04:13 +0000

His Delirious special was fantastic, I just watched it two weeks ago. Shame that he got mixed up in this.

By: largebill

largebill — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:03:23 +0000

For Eddie’s sake I hope he learned from Martha Stewart and kept his mouth shut until his attorney was present to advise him to continue to keep his mouth shut.

Second hand Insider Trading cases are far from slam dunk convictions.