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Sunday, August 08, 2010
Backlash against blogger’s stance on service time
Blogger Murray Chass takes it on the chin, and, more importantly, does what all good bloggers do: they give a platform to those who disagree with him.
The issue is not that teams are manipulating service time to the effect that they lose out on a handful of games in 2010 so that they get a full season of games in 2016 from Buster Posey and other similar players. No, the issue is that the teams have not found it necessary to publicly tell its fanbase that.
Given the outcry against Chass, it seems that the fanbase understands the tradeoff of a few games in 2010 for a full season in 2016. The fans are… smart! So, why can’t the MLB front offices simply come out and… acknowledge the intelligence of its fanbase and… agree with them!
Can’t they simply say: “You know, I know, and Buster knows that he was ready to start here in 2010. But, we also want him to play here in 2016. The CBA allows that, the MLB and MLBPA negotiated in good faith for that CBA to allow that, and the players accept that they gained elsewhere in order to give that concession to MLB teams. So, we are leveraging that to the benefit of this team and its fans. The cost to Buster is made up elsewhere in that CBA.”
Or something like that. I’m sure someone in the front office in some team can say something really good here.
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