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Red Sox fire unfair Japan policy
Posted on March 19, 2008 3:57 PM
Management promised Major League Baseball players all kinds of things in exchange for prying a couple of teams out of North America to play a couple of games in Japan. So when the greedheads who run baseball, as in used car salesman Bud See No Steroid Evil Selig and his gang, decided to screw coaches out of the appearance fee previous team coaches received for the Japan trip, the Red Sox, and later the A's, took action.
The Worldwide Leader said the Sox threatened to boycott their last spring training game and the Japan trip if coaches did not receive the $40,000 bonus players would get for crossing the Pacific to play a couple of games. Bud probably nearly had an anal fissure when he caught wind of this, to which I say good...
"We had an agreement," Curt Schilling, one of a handful of Red Sox players who talked with Major League Baseball on ground rules for the trip, told ESPN's Claire Smith.Gee, MLB hosing people over, a surprise of epic, EPIC, proportions. I feel for the fans with cheap rat-bastard owners who run their teams several places below frugal when it comes to payrolls and operations. None of them will be surprised MLB tried to pocket a little extra scratch from the Japanese trip.
"Some of the promises have already been taken away, now this," Schilling said. "As far as the players are concerned, [withholding the coaches' bonuses] can't happen."
''When we voted to go to Japan, that was not a unanimous vote,'' Lowell told The Boston Globe, "but we did what our team wanted us to do for Major League Baseball. They promised us the moon and the stars, and then when we committed, they started pulling back. It's not just the coaches, it's the staff, the trainers, a lot of people are affected by this.