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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, March 23, 2012Berkman apologizes for comments about Selig
For he wanted to show how independent (HA!) he’d grown…
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Posted: March 23, 2012 at 05:28 AM | 14 comment(s)
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1. Chris Needham Posted: March 23, 2012 at 09:06 AM (#4087347)If he's a good agent he can put his personal feelings aside and advise the client to do what is best for the client. There is no benefit that I can see for Berkman to make these statements and having Selig/MLB pissed at him could bite him in the ass if he gets involved in a situation where league discipline becomes an issue (PEDs, charging the mound, etc...).
but he's up against bud selig so he was forced to "apologise" before bud made his life difficult - to put it PC
because hey, maybe berkman's name was on that list along with sammy sosa and anyone else who people want to tar with an unprovable accusation of steroid use
Don't see how those two things are remotely the same. One phrase is clearly being used as a figure of speech, one is clearly not.
We all know how you feel about the Astros moving to the AL, but as I said in the original thread, I don't see how this is true at all. MLB made the move part of the negotiation, but a negotiation is still all that it was. A person being extorted doesn't get to walk away from the deal with no negative consequences for them.
Yeah, Crane could say "no", but if MLB makes it a tacit requirement of the purchase, how does it not end with the Stros in the AL?
I have to admit that I found this sentence amusing. Sports writing rarely amuses me any more, so that's noteworthy in and of itself.
And I still think that bribe is a better description than extort for what MLB did to Crane.
The Astros ultimately ending up in the AL doesn't make anything extortion. If you are trying to sell your house and garden as one packages, ultimately they are going to be sold together if that's what you want. The fact that I wasn't able to buy the house without the garden, does not mean I was extorted.
MLB making the move part of the approval is their prerogative as the holder of those rights. Them not being able to exercise those rights as part of the negotiation in the way they choose would actually be much closer to extortion than what actually happened.
That's not good enough. As spokesman for the extortionists, I would have given the Astros the choice of the American League or the Venezuelan Summer League. That'd learn those ####### cowboys.
Oh, and The Scott Sanderson -- really, he is an agent? The one-time Expos/Cubs/Yankees chronically sore-backed pitcher?
Selig is devious, first he forces a public apology from Berkman, then he arranges for somebody to beat the crap out of him.
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