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Post by abisai on Oct 8, 2005 22:56:31 GMT -5
Very well then, I will commission Michelangelo to carve a lifesized naked likeness of myself and massive unit. It will become the league trophy, which the winner can attach to the hood of their car and rock with pride. The loser will receive the cock of the trophy, which is bound to be detached sooner or later with normal wear and tear, which they must hang around their neck as a chronicle of their ineptitude.
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Post by abisai on Nov 25, 2005 11:48:02 GMT -5
Wow, that last post was funny and I have no idea what the fuck it means!!!
Anyhow, in case no one has fucking noticed, there are some seriously retarded trades in baseball. Again I blame the Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig. This guy has never disallowed a trade to my knowledge. He should have blocked the Yankees from getting the Big Unit for instance. But this off-season is ridiculous: 1. Carlos Delgado and cash to the Mets for a scrub and two unpromising minor leaguers 2. Jim Thome and cash to the White Sox for a scrub and two minor leaguers 3. Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, and Guillermo Mota to the Red Sox for four minor leaguers
There is a trend here. Teams selling players to large markets teams that can afford to buy large contracts. A commissioner from a small market team background would love to have his team do that I bet. This is retarded. Selling players's contracts is different from free agency. For one it eliminates the decisions of the players and their agents. They get shuffled by the teams they signed with, check Carlos Delgado who decided to go for the Marlins for less money than the Mets offered only to have the Marlins trade him to the Mets. That subverted his free agency decision. The other reason that this is different from free agency is that it is presumably not open to the entire league to buy these players' contracts. For instance, I can guarantee that the Phillies wanted to never have to face Jim Thome and did whatever they could to move him out of their division and out of their league even. I bet the Braves had no chance to get him. Trading Delgado to the Mets was within the division, which speaks volumes about how teams evaluate the chances of the Mets competing next season.
Trades like this disservice smaller markets by making their teams less competitive, outraging their fan base, and effectively making them a feeder market for the big boys.
Here is a practical and simple solution: invoke a clause in the standard contract that allows the player to be granted free agency as a mutual option. If both the team and the player agree, cut him lose and let free agency determine his future. The commissioner needs a set of fucking balls too, allowing anything to happen without intercession subverts the redistribution of wealth he instituted to allow smaller market teams more revenue to play with. Fostering their inclination to retain that as income and continue to play small ball with talented players makes the whole thing meaningless.
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Post by abisai on Nov 26, 2005 3:00:06 GMT -5
FYI: "The New York Daily News reported late Friday night that the Toronto Blue Jays have signed closer B.J. Ryan to a five-year, $47 million contract."
Somewhere Billy Wagner's accountant is smiling.
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Post by abisai on Nov 27, 2005 3:41:33 GMT -5
For record: if anyone sees a large man answering to the name of Booth, please tell him I have done precisely what he told me to do with his 2005 fantasy baseball prize, NOTHING.
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Post by cheeze1 on Nov 30, 2005 20:30:14 GMT -5
the mets got delgado and wagner and soon maybe manny and benji omar is the shit
and i think bud selig and the players union shot down the arod deal to boston but okayed the insane deal that sent him to the yankees
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Post by cheeze one on Nov 30, 2005 20:33:49 GMT -5
there are such clauses in contracts that force players into free agency case in point delgado he can ask for a trade at the end of the year and if the mets refuse he is cut loose to the free agency market
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Post by abisai on Dec 1, 2005 4:07:35 GMT -5
The A-Rod to Boston deal was in violation of the terms of baseball contracts as negotiated with the player's union. The deal required A-Rod agreeing to just take less money instead of any team paying off that portion of the contract.
Sure, some top players get deals with special options, but not all. Like mutual options to continue the contract. Or forced free agency options with deadlines like you mentioned. Or even buyout options. My point is making the mutual termination option a recognized industry standard - they literally have a standard contract template in MLB - could be good for everyone involved. Like in situations where the player hates his team and wants to leave but the team cannot trade him. Or in situations where the team hates the player and only retains his services because of his monumental contract. I believe at present the only means for the player without any special clauses to gain free agency is for his team to payout his contract and cut him free. Players have no power other than to not get paid, they are literally endentured until they have enough seaons to attempt free agency or their team is nice enough to cut them loose - players usually have no buyout option to become a free agent. Maybe the T.O. scenario was on my mind.
Hey, what do we care anyway, Mets are third and Yankees first in payroll.
Mets are fucking the bomb. Especially in their infield. I blogged about it even. I think they could be great. And only getting better over the next few years. Delgado should really benefit Beltran in a lot of ways. Go Omar Minaya. And NO ONE will miss Mike Piazza. This is brilliance. I have high expectations more will be done by the time Spring Training goes around. Run out and buy a Beltran jersey while they are still on sale!
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Post by abisai on Feb 6, 2006 18:46:53 GMT -5
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