03-19-2008, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Bosox refuse to play game or board plane
http://www.globesports.com/servlet/s...9.wsptredsox19
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The Boston Red Sox refused to take the field for their final spring training game in Florida on Wednesday and threatened to boycott their flight to Japan for their season openers unless their coaches and other staff are paid for the trip.
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The players are getting a $40K stipend for this trip!?!
Wow.
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03-19-2008, 10:34 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary
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I thought it was the coaches who were promised the money, and now are told they won't get it...
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03-19-2008, 10:51 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
I thought it was the coaches who were promised the money, and now are told they won't get it...
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Yeah, it is.
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Manager Terry Francona and his players were upset after learning staff members are not going to get a $40,000 stipend. The Boston Herald reported players insisted part of their agreement to make the trip included the fee — for them and the coaches.
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I like seeing players do this to support the coaches, but I still can't get over the fact they get a stipend like that.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-19-2008, 10:53 AM
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Franchise Player
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This game is actually supposed to be in HD on Sportsnet...I would have liked to watch it.
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03-19-2008, 11:33 AM
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maybe the multimillionaire players could donate some of their stipend to the coaches... what a concept. they could probably afford it
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03-19-2008, 11:37 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
maybe the multimillionaire players could donate some of their stipend to the coaches... what a concept. they could probably afford it
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I hate comments like this. Read the article. The players voted whether to go to Japan and one of the conditions was that the coaches and training staff would receive a stipend for making the trip too.
The amount of money and exposure MLB and the Red Sox are getting for this is worth the $40K stipend per player/coach/staff.
"Professional athletes make a lot of money so they... <enter lame reason here>."
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03-19-2008, 11:48 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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$40,000? Wow, that's nuts.
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03-19-2008, 11:52 AM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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$40000 is peanuts. MLB makes a gajillion dollars.
Great that the players are sticking up for their coaches.
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Last edited by GirlySports; 03-19-2008 at 12:00 PM.
Reason: grammar
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03-19-2008, 11:57 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
$40000 is peanuts. MLB makes a gajillion dollars.
Great that the players are stick up for their coaches.
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Exactly. When the commissioner makes $15M and has a private jet at his disposal and with the exposure MLB is getting to the Asian market (to compete with the NBA), $40K is peanuts.
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03-19-2008, 11:58 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
$40000 is peanuts. MLB makes a gajillion dollars.
Great that the players are stick up for their coaches.
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Relative to the MLB fee structure, you are correct.
Relative to me, it is a crazy amount of money for a simple stipend. Just another thing that makes baseball feel more and more distant from me.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-19-2008, 12:00 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Relative to the MLB fee structure, you are correct.
Relative to me, it is a crazy amount of money for a simple stipend. Just another thing that makes baseball feel more and more distant from me.
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Can't make that comparison.
We pay to watch them work, they don't pay to watch us work 
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03-19-2008, 12:07 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Can't make that comparison.
We pay to watch them work, they don't pay to watch us work |
You mean you haven't had Peyton cheering you on at work?
And I've never made multi-millions of dollars so I can only judge it from the perspective I know. I agree that it is a free market and they get what they deserve. What I don't agree with is when they hold the fans hostage. How about people at that final spring training game? The people like Oilfan who wanted to watch the game on TV? They are the ones who are affected by what is, as you describe it, "peanuts".
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-19-2008, 12:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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03-19-2008, 12:11 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
You mean you haven't had Peyton cheering you on at work?
And I've never made multi-millions of dollars so I can only judge it from the perspective I know. I agree that it is a free market and they get what they deserve. What I don't agree with is when they hold the fans hostage. How about people at that final spring training game? The people like Oilfan who wanted to watch the game on TV? They are the ones who are affected by what is, as you describe it, "peanuts".
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You're right. Fans have the ultimate vote. Some fans are blasting the Red Sox this morning and will never watch their games again!
But in general, you know fans always come back. Because the product of "sports" is so appealling.
Oilfan: Are you really going to watch at 4 in the morning!?
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03-19-2008, 12:12 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
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Bud: There's a game in Japan? Boycott? What? Oh just pay it!
Resolved!
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03-21-2008, 12:52 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
Bud: There's a game in Japan? Boycott? What? Oh just pay it!
Resolved!
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No kidding. There was absolutely no chance this would end any other way.
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03-21-2008, 02:04 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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I wouldnt go to Japan without someone else's $40 Grand either.
Expensive place. 
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