I have to say Arod still sucks as an announcer.
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I agree with you. However, I hope he gets shelled and doesn’t last an inning.
Did I just hear that Angel Fucking Hernandez is behind the plate for the first game of the season?
I hope he never records another out. I mean it. What a fucking tool he turned out to be.
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Why not say, if you want exemptions from minimum wage requirements and monopoly laws, you MUST implement a controlling position (a la Commissioner) that is not beholden to the owners? What am I missing?
WTF are you talking about?
He’s talking about Congress forcing MLB’s hand to make the Commissioner’s office independent.
A Rod is the worst. Why is he on my TV?
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Since when does Congress have authority to tell businesses that their CEO can’t work for their interests, and
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What does that have to do with Gerrit Cole?
I’m not advocating the position, just trying to clarify the point that I think he was making.
It has nothing to do with Gerrit Cole. The name of the thread is not “Gerrit Cole”.
Why couldn’t Congress say, If you want to be exempt from certain laws owing to a special status you think you should have, this is what you have to do.
If the owners said No, that’s all right, Congress could say, OK, pay your minor leaguers the minimum wage.
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Well, you responded to me after I made a comment about Cole. I didn’t understand why that precipitated a comment about the commissioner.
The anti trust exemption is a different issue, but I suppose they could insist that all minor leaguers make minimum wage. I doubt the players would like that, but ok…you get drafted…1st round or last round, you earn minimum wage until you reach Major League free agency. Done deal.
And I still don’t see how they can tell the clubs that they can have no collective management.
Apparently Freidman is a genius because he can somehow manage to field a team with only a $225MM budget.
The response to you was a mistake of convenience. Earlier the thread had dealt with larger issues of commissionatorial dumbassery. I had no interest in weighing in one way or the other on the Cole bellyaching.
You’re being intentionally obtuse in your response. But I’m interested in why the antitrust exemption is another issue. My post was intended as conversation starter: why couldn’t Congress insist on a neutral overseer so long as it was granting exemptions? I don’t pretend to know the answer. I try as a rule not to do that.
This wouldn’t infringe on the ownership of the individual companies nor the executiveship of “MLB”—it would just put that executive on the same level as the players union head, no? Your side and their side and an independent power in the middle.
I get that realpolitik is the reason why this isn’t extant now, but is there also a legal case against it? Is it not a reasonable condition to put on an organization that is permitted to operate outside the rules everyone else has to operate by?
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Season starts tomorrow. Hudson has to get in one last tune-up start to be ready.
Fuck off
The commissioner’s job has always been as a hired representative of the owners, or shareholders, of MLB. In what other industry does Congress step in and say "you can no longer hire someone to represent the best interests of the shareholders, you must hire someone who equally represents your employees "?
Why in the fuck would congress care if some dickhead is making baseball less enjoyable for a certain subset of fans if they don’t care that the president of the country is simultaneously committing countless impeachable offenses?
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They spent yesterday talking about NCAA players.
Perhaps they care about some baseball dickhead precisely because they don’t care about a gangster
as President.
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