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He was hurt a bunch of times. One time it was his butt was hurt, I believe he had a hangnail on his big toe one time to..lol There were 1000 reasons why he couldn't pitch. The one that got the team going though was he was in a car accident and hurt his ribs and didn't tell the team. It really rubbed the players the wrong way and he became a open joke in the locker room. In all they paid him 39.5 million and only had a handful of starts
I agree but I can see why they don't. they are still making their money while helping out the other people. They have no reson to give it up except for integrity. Unfortunitly it will take being part of a lockout before the players will give it up and thats something the owners do not want.
I was a union steward at my old job that I was at for 20 years. The last 3 I was union Steward. I was part of the contract negotiation. They wanted to put cameras in and by law they could. We promised them a huge battle. We finally agreed if they would give us $1.00 a hour more on top of the 1.00 a hour raise we would agree to it but they could not dicipline anyone they found doing something wrong. They could only talk to that person about it. This guy lied to the board to get it passed because he wanted to spy on people so bad. But in anycase what I am getting at here is the owners won't really push for it unless they benifit from it. The owners want to fill the seats and hitters fill the seats anymore unfortunitly.
I would trust what Omar says about as much as, well, about as much as Derf is a die hard yankee fan.
Unreal, well maybe he grew up finally and became the pitcher everyone thought he was. He is having a fantastic year.
I find it funny to this day reading about the Phillies making a deal to try to get better. For so many years all they did was stick the money in their pocket.Trade their best players. But going to the playoffs and winning the world series have shown them, there is even more money to be made putting a winning team on the field and producing. So instead of shopping all their talent they are shopping for it.
I don't understand why they are like that though. I know we don't play the game on paper but on paper this is a much better team. I have said before I don't agree with you about how you feel about your manager and I think Willie would have done better, but this goes way beyond the manager. It is almost like they need a shrink to come in there and put these guys on the couch one by one and tell them and remind them they are major leage baseball players. Their confidence level is way low. Sometimes you even see them up there hacking at the plate.
I always thought Lou was a better than average manager but I still think his world series win was Pete Roses team. Pete helped build that team. I always thought Lou should thank Pete Rose for that world series.
Thats a lousy way to go. That movie was great. Very funny baseball movie.
Level 1 he said so if he has to have a pulled groin thats the best case we can get. DL for sure. It is a shame. He has been pitching so well this season. Will be interesting to see what they do here.
Jaba needs to be more agressive. 30 pitches in 2 innings and had to be taken out. He may have givin up only one run but those were some really hard hit balls. He put himself in position for the batters to know he had to throw a strike.
That one has me much more worried than AJ. We don't need Andy to be out a month to a month and a half. AJ has been so inconsistant you plan on him going out and losing. If we win it is a bonus. He has been better since they took care of the flaw he had in his mechanics but Andy has been having one of his best years and had a shot at a 20 win season.
It doesn't happen much. I know. But he definitly showed some class anyway.
Yogi falls, will miss Old-Timer's
By Wallace Matthews
ESPNNewYork.com
NEW YORK -- New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra will not attend Saturday's Old-Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium after suffering a fall Friday evening at his home in Montclair, N.J.
While the 85-year-old former catcher and manager didn't suffer any broken bones, Berra is not feeling up to coming to the ballpark for the 2 p.m. ET ceremony, according to the Yankees and Dave Kaplan, the director of the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Montclair.
Berra tripped on his front steps and was brought to nearby Mountainside Hospital, according to Kaplan. He was X-rayed and released. "His nose is pretty banged up," Kaplan said.
The Yankees are working on re-writing the script for the day's events. Berra's family is putting together a statement to be read at the ceremony.
"He's very disappointed as you can imagine," said Kaplan. "He looks forward to this day. And he's sorry he can't be there."
Wallace Matthews covers the Yankees for ESPNNewYork.com. Follow him on Twitter
Shilling had some good things to say
Why I wanted to play for The Boss Steinbrenner's passion set him apart and made him a legend beyond compare
Baseball lost a great man Tuesday.
George Steinbrenner was both a fan and player's dream, a man who made it clear that winning -- and winning it all -- was the only acceptable outcome.
In 23 years I played for owners that ran the gamut. The only one I could think of placing in the same league as Mr. Steinbrenner was Jerry Colangelo in Arizona. Like George, Jerry made it very clear that he had no qualms with the salaries being paid to players, but his expectations were World Series wins, every year.
Few owners interact with their players the way Mr. Steinbrenner did. Even fewer emit the passion, compassion and care for their players the way Mr. Steinbrenner did. He viewed wearing those pinstripes as baseball's highest honor and he wanted his organization to view it the same way.
Did he meddle? Sure, but so what? Passionate people tend to do that. Was he loud? Yeah, but since when is that a bad thing when you're loud and overbearing at times because you care so deeply? I absolutely cherished the man and had the honor of meeting him only once.
After we beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, he stopped me outside the media room in the tunnel under the stadium. Here he was, I knew he was crushed, but even so he went to great lengths to talk to me and say things I'd forever remember and cherish.
Mr. Steinbrenner was the No. 1 reason I wanted to initially go to the Yankees when I learned the Diamondbacks wanted to move my contract. I loved playing for Mr. Colangelo and I saw Mr. Steinbrenner as an older, more passionate version of him. As a player, what more could you ask from the owner of your team? He did everything in his power, and sometimes things outside his control, to take care of his players and his fans, and made no qualms about who he had to bull over to do it.
So many people looked to him and the Yankees organization as being a big contributor to the unbalanced financial playing field in baseball. I say baloney. If every owner poured the percentage of his resources into their teams as Mr. Steinbrenner did, there would be far more happy fans in many more cities.
He bought the most storied franchise in sports history for the paltry sum of $8.7 million and some 35 years later it is a billion dollar property. That's absolutely attributable to him. The game, fans and players are ALL better for it.
Mr. Steinbrenner was as responsible for the change and growth of this great game in the past 30 years as anyone associated with baseball and he absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Oh, and for what it's worth, without George Steinbrenner the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry was nowhere near what it became in the late 1990s and into this new millennium, and for that we should all (well, all New Yorkers and New Englanders, that is) be eternally grateful.
He's now in the best box seat in the house, and God bless him for that.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Steinbrenner family and Yankees organization. God Bless The Boss.
Curt Schilling, who pitched for the Red Sox from 2004-08, is a three-time World Series champion, six-time MLB All-Star and founded 38 Studios. Curt and his wife, Shonda, have raised money to fight ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) through Curt's Pitch for ALS, and have encouraged awareness for sun protection through the SHADE Foundation. They recently announced their support for the Asperger's Association of New England after their third child was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.
So when will Buck sign on to manage the Dreaded O's? I hope he does so only if he gets complete control or they will fire him and blame him for their problems like they do every manager.
Wow, thank you Texas for finally acting like a MLB team and helping us out with Boston.
I am soooo glad Swish is on our team.lol
Yea they did. I was shocked to hear that. It isn't like he is a rookie or only been around for a few years. He has been around a long time. I wonder how they ccame up with that so fast.
I think that was the hardest hit ball Posada has hit all year that I have seen.
Oh they are? I would figure they wouldn't but what do I know..lol Looks like the weather will hold up tonight to. We had some storms come through here a couple hours ago but the radar looks good, the storms fell apart.
Yea it was nice, we all watched it here. I am glad they didn't wait and do it on old timers day. That would have really taken away from the old players who come every year.
Oh, ok, You thought it was a fight at one time when you felt that A-Rod started it
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=11040188&txt2find=2004|fight
And who started the fight? Because the Boston player couldn't stand someone got the better of him again. I guess in Boston thats ok only if they make out better in it. Their Inferiority complex was pretty high back then though. I am glad it finally went away after they won the world seies.
I went back and looked up some brawls and didn't see anyone tap the other person on the shoulder and said will you please turn around and face me. What I saw was people grabbing each other and swinging at each other no matter what direction they were turned in. Even Boston players doing the same thing in some brawls of theirs. So I guess if you don't want to get hurt you stay out of the brawl.There is no crying in baseball.
rofl. It was a brawl. now I am sure thats the way the boston people see it but who started the fight to begin with? Oh yes, the Boston catcher did because he didn't like getting slammed into during a play at the plate which he was blocking.
We are so glad you help put things in perspective for us. I am glad the guy spoke his mind. But doesn't mean he isn't a bonehead.
Very classy move....em
It was fun to make fun of Boston when they were doing bad just like they did last year when Yankees were doing bad and couldn't beat Boston the 1st 8 times they played. But they spend a lot of money to win to and even though you heard from the fair weather fans yelling cut Papi, he is done we had to figure Boston wasn't going away and they would surge soon enough and they did.The tough thing for Boston and NY is Tampa is doing better than a lot of people thought they would and are in the mix also. 5 games is nothing in this division we have seen that before with the win streaks they go through. But Tampa is a very dangerous team to. Yankees may have the best record but that could change in a hurry.
lol a Boston pitcher who is another one who blames the world for his own failures..lol I forgot even who he was til I did a google search.
hmmm makes for some interesting reading for sure.
Yea, I am sure the red sox owner doesn't even know what he is talking about. What does he know, he just has to pay the money is all. Your right, it must be wrong because you say so.
Well, here is a guy from a from a team you have respect for. See how he feels about it. He said the teams have gotton over a billion from it. But what does he know about it either.
Since the system was set up in the late 1990s, wealthier clubs like the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox have complained that small-market teams that remained mired in last place have not been using their revenue-sharing money as designed. John Henry, the managing principal owner of the Red Sox, told The Boston Globe late last year in an e-mail message that “over a billion dollars has been paid to seven chronically uncompetitive teams, five of whom have had baseball’s highest operating profits. Who, except these teams, can think this is a good idea?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/sports/baseball/13marlins.html
Well they were reported all over the country. They were breakdowns from MLB. So your saying they are and baseball is giving wrong information or is it wrong because it doesn't agree with your point?
Baseball's Revenue Sharing Problem
Major League Baseball Hurt By Teams Who Don't Spend Money on Players
Nov 12, 2007 James Lincoln Ray
Major League Baseball doesn't require the beneficiaries of revenue sharing to spend the money they receive on players.
Under Major League Baseball’s revenue sharing system, which has been in effect for the last ten years, a number of "big market" teams like the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox give huge chunks of money every season to a group of "small market" teams that include the Kansas City Royals, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Florida Marlins.
Revenue Sharing 101
It's not that the wealthier teams are generous. Quite far from it. In 1997, baseball created a new revenue sharing system that requires successful teams to pay millions of dollars every year to unsuccessful teams. Revenue sharing is supposed to create better competitive balance among all 30 Major League Baseball teams. The past decade has shown that teams who use revenue sharing dollars to attract and retain talented ballplayers become more competitive on the field and more profitable on the books.
The Colorado Rockies are a fine example. The Rockies used all of the $16 million they received in 2006 revenue sharing dollars to increase their payroll in 2007, and that certainly helped the team win this year's National League pennant. The Detroit Tigers are another success story. They used revenue sharing dollars to attract free agents Ivan Rodriguez and Magglio Ordonez, and those players helped the Tigers climb from a team that won just 43 games in 2002 to a club that won the American League pennant last year.
Many Revenue Sharing Recipient Teams Don't Improve
Being on the receiving end of baseball’s Robin Hood Policy doesn't guarantee success, however. One reason that some clubs fail to improve is that they don't use their revenue sharing dollars to attract free agents or to retain homegrown players.
Major League Baseball's revenue sharing agreement does not require recipients to spend the "shared" revenue on actual ballplayers. All that is required by teams is that they use the money "to improve the product on the field." That vague requirement, however, has not been enforced by the League. In reality, the money can go anywhere. It can even go into the owner’s pockets.
Florida and Tampa Bay Are the Worst Revenue-Sharing Offenders
The two biggest abusers of the system are the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays (who changed their official team name from the Devil Rays just a few days ago, wow!)
The Marlins won the World Series title in 2003 with a team that had a unique combination of great young players and talented veterans that included Josh Beckett, Brad Penny, Mike Lowell and Ivan Rodriguez. That year, the team had a respectable $54 million payroll. Rather than retain those players, however, the Marlins traded away Penny and Beckett for much cheaper players, and lost Mike Lowell and Pudge Rodriguez to free agency.
By shedding these stars, Florida was able to cut its payroll down to $14.9 million in 2006, which is less than 20% of the Major League average of $78 million. It was also less than half of the $31 million in revenue sharing dollars the team received that year. So, rather than using the money to retain or attract on-field talent, the owners took it as part of the team's MLB best $43 million profit in 2006.
The Rays might be worse than the Marlins. From 2002 through 2006, Tampa Bay took in an average of $32 million per year in revenue sharing money. During that same period, the Rays had an average payroll of just $27 million, which was the lowest in baseball. They also had the worst five year record on the field, winning an average of just 70 games per season. Yet the team turned an average profit of more than $20 million during those years.
The Revenue Sharing Rules Need a Change
As stated above, baseball doesn't force revenue sharing recipients to use the money on payroll. All that is required is that the team use the money to "improve the product on the field." No one has even tried to define the meaning of "improve the product on the field." Moreover, there are not any subtantial reporting requirements or other measures of accountability in the system. Teams get the money and simply use it as they please. Some spend it on payroll and watch their teams improve. Others pocket the cash and watch their teams continue to suck.
So long as the rules remain lax and enforcement non-existent, teams will be able to take advantage of the system. Here are some changes that have been suggested.
Some advisors argue that baseball should require teams to spend a specified minimum percentage of shared revenue on player payroll. Others have suggested a model that would pay the most revenue sharing dollars to those small market teams who were best able to increase their attandance and/or television viewership each year. Some have even suggested a simple minimum dollar amount for player payroll.
Whether or not any of these ideas can work is of course subject to debate. Perhaps the best way to resolve that debate would be to implement one or more of them and see how they work. It's got to be better than what baseball has right now.
P.S. -- On December 4, 2007, the Marlins agreed to trade their two highest paid players, Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis, to the Detroit Tigers for young prospects, a move that will likely insure that the Marlins will have the lowest payroll and one of the worst franchises in baseball in 2008.
Read more at Suite101: Baseball's Revenue Sharing Problem: Major League Baseball Hurt By Teams Who Don't Spend Money on Players http://baseball.suite101.com/article.cfm/baseballs_revenue_sharing_problem#ixzz0tfqIvGY4
No, not at all why?
You really believe that the owners have not made money from revenue sharing from the yankees with the luxery tax? Or are they all shoving that in their pockets to?
Well yea, I know the dates but Vincent wasn't gotten rid of to help Steinbrenner like you made it sound. It was because of Vincent. I expect that out of a red sox fan though. Everythig happens because of the Yankees when you talk to them. That whole Vincent thing had nothing to do with Steinbrenner.
Vincent was gone way before that.
Landis ruled baseball with an iron hand for 24 years. For example, in response to fining Babe Ruth $5,000, he is quoted as saying, "In this [commissioner's] office he's just another ballplayer."[citation needed] Subsequent commissioners wielded varying degrees of power with varying degrees of success.
Tensions between commissioners and the baseball team owners who elected them, exacerbated by baseball's chronic labor conflicts with the Major League Baseball Players Association beginning in the 1970s, came to a head in 1992, when baseball owners voted no confidence in Commissioner Fay Vincent by a tally of 18–9. The owners had a number of grievances against Vincent, especially the perception that he had been too favorable to the players during the lockout of 1990. Unlike the current commissioner, Vincent has stated that the owners colluded against the players. Vincent put it this way: "The Union basically doesn’t trust the Ownership because collusion was a $280 million theft by Selig and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf of that money from the players. I mean, they rigged the signing of free agents. They got caught. They paid $280 million to the players. And I think that's polluted labor relations in baseball ever since it happened. I think it's the reason union chief Donald Fehr has no trust in Selig."[2]
Vincent resigned on 7 September 1992. Selig, the longtime owner of the Milwaukee Brewers was appointed chairman of baseball's Executive Council, making him the de facto acting commissioner. Among the potential candidates for a permanent commissioner discussed in the media were future President George W. Bush (who was the managing partner for the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 1994)[3] and George J. Mitchell (then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate).[4] While acting commissioner, he presided over Major League Baseball during the 1994 player's strike, which led to the cancellation of the World Series.
Selig continued as acting commissioner until July 8, 1998, when the owners officially appointed him to the commissioner position.[5] Having been an owner for 30 years, Selig is seen as having closer ties to the MLB team owners than previous commissioners. Selig's administration has had many perceived successes, such as expansion and interleague play, but many still see his lack of independence from the owners as a problem.[original research?]
In May 2008, Bud Selig surpassed Bowie Kuhn as the second longest-serving commissioner (including his time as "acting commissioner" from 1992 to mid-1998), behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in office after 24 years of service.[6] Beginning in 2006, Selig repeatedly stated his intention to retire at the end of his contract in 2009.[7] However, on 17 January 2008, it was announced that Selig has accepted a 3-year extension through the 2012 season [8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball_(MLB)
You will always find articles that say he was bad for baseball and articles that want hi in the baseball hall of fame. It is the same in every sport. Jerry Jones in football for breaking the contract with venders that the NFL used to make more money for himself.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-spt-0714-rogers-george-steinbrenne20100713,0,4203616.column