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Scooby Snacks
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Joined: 16 May 2001
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Location: UK, via Newport, Vermont!
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On 2001-06-04 01:23, Master of Puppets wrote:
You have to remember the track record of a lot of the big-money guys:
Pay-Rod: $252 milllion later, Texas is still floundering.
Ken Griffey Jr.: Paid millions to sit around and watch while recuperating from injuries.
Kevin Brown: I don't see the Dodgers in the World Series yet.
Just a few. And look at the Mariners, after getting rid of Griffey and Pay-Rod: Best record in baseball.
Pretty amazing...
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Scooby Snacks
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| Posted: 6/4/2001, 7:17 am Post subject: |
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On 2001-06-04 01:23, Master of Puppets wrote:
You have to remember the track record of a lot of the big-money guys:
Pay-Rod: $252 milllion later, Texas is still floundering.
Ken Griffey Jr.: Paid millions to sit around and watch while recuperating from injuries.
Kevin Brown: I don't see the Dodgers in the World Series yet.
Just a few. And look at the Mariners, after getting rid of Griffey and Pay-Rod: Best record in baseball.
Pretty amazing...
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A-Rod's 'track record' is that he's actually having an MVP season...he's 3rd in the AL in home runs with 18, he's 4th in the AL in RBI's with 50, and he has a .332 batting average, which puts him 8th in the league.
The fact that Texas are floundering is hardly his fault...unless you're saying he should also be part of the Rangers pitching rotation? 
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Patrick
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Wedge231
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Joined: 20 Mar 2001
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Location: South Bend, IN
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Why can't Desi Relaford make that much? I mean he has pitched for the Mets and plays the infield. All this and he's a backup player, lol
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Spike
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Joined: 23 Mar 2001
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Location: California
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| Posted: 10/28/2001, 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well I have some good news and some bad news.
First the good news, last I heard, with the events of September 11th, nobody wants to see these millionaires squabble over money so they're going to extend the current Collective Bargaining Agreement one year so that means no strike for next season.
The bad news, that just means that next Winter for the 2003 season we could have a strike. 
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defska17
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Joined: 01 Apr 2001
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Location: So. Cal (near San Diego)
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| Posted: 10/29/2001, 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| i haven't heard anything about this...but baseball cannot afford a strike anytime soon. baseball support is really down right now, and a strike sure wouldn't help any. |
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Spike
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| Posted: 6/23/2002, 2:59 am Post subject: Strike chances look good |
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Barry Bonds says the fans will come back if Baseball goes on strike. I agree with him. I think they will.
But here's the problem I have with those comments. I hope it's not representative of most of the Baseball players or we could be in trouble. Because if that's the case that tells me the players don't care about the fans at all. That there isn't any sense of urgency on the players' part to avoid a strike. C'mon, it's the fans who help pay you guys these big salaries.
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Saturday, June 22
Bonds says stoppage would not destroy baseball
ESPN.com news services
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds does not want to go on strike. However, Bonds says that if major league baseball players do walk off the field yet again this year -- the World Series was wiped out by a work stoppage in 1994 -- he expects the fans to come back.
"If you have kids who might (grow up to) be major league baseball players, we're fighting for your kids, possibly," Bonds told The Washington Post before the Giants beat the Orioles on Friday night. "If I work for your newspaper and you're in the union fighting for your equality and rights, sure I would strike, and so would you..."
The players' union feels it might need to strike, considering the owners could force a lockout or even implement a new salary structure during the next offseason. The two sides are not close to a resolution, and the players might vote on a strike date during the All-Star break.
Bonds was asked whether baseball fans would be able to side with the players, considering the average salary is now $2.4 million.
"It's not my fault you don't play baseball," Bonds told The Post. "It's not our fault you're not an actor or Bill Gates or anybody else. Nobody is complaining about their salaries, or the owners' salaries. So don't complain about ours. We have the right to make it."
Bonds, 37, has 589 career homers after hitting a record 73 last year. He has said he might not play more than a couple of more years. He's on pace for another record-breaking season with a .572 on-base percentage (and 22 homers) going into the game Saturday against the Orioles. He's fourth on the career homer list, and a work stoppage would certainly hamper his chances for moving up the list.
Ultimately, Bonds believes baseball would survive another stoppage.
"It's entertainment," he told The Post. "It will come back. A lot of companies go on strike, not just baseball. And people still ride the bus." |
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defska17
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| Posted: 6/23/2002, 3:17 am Post subject: |
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If baseball goes on strike, I think fans will come back as well. It wont happen over night but the fans will be back.
It makes me mad what Bonds said: "It's not my fault you don't play baseball...It's not our fault you're not an actor or Bill Gates or anybody else. Nobody is complaining about their salaries, or the owners' salaries. So don't complain about ours. We have the right to make it." According to the article, the average salary is $2.4M. That is $2.4M to play a game for a living that many people who work their butts off at a dead end job for $50,000 would play for free.
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But here's the problem I have with those comments. I hope it's not representative of most of the Baseball players or we could be in trouble. Because if that's the case that tells me the players don't care about the fans at all. That there isn't any sense of urgency on the players' part to avoid a strike. C'mon, it's the fans who help pay you guys these big salaries.
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I dont think that they do to be honest. They want to make money, thats about it. They realize that the fans will be there after this is all said and done (as evident by what Bonds said) so they dont care if the fans have to suffer for a few months.
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