THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Thursday, May 29, 2008

This week in player cowardice…

By Tangotiger, 03:29 PM

Jay Jaffe gives us the lowdown on Marvin Miller. I’m pro-union, but lately, I’ve been anti-union. MLB players basically are a bunch of Paris Hilton wannabes. None of them care about PED. They could have demanded a safer working environment, but they didn’t. They let the situation morph into what it was, basically letting the small gangs rule the streets, instead of policing themselves while they stayed in their mansions.

Is there no MLB player out there that has the will to create any kind of movement and stand up for something that is right? All we get are the token “let’s all wear Jackie’s number”. Nice and all. But, is that as far as it goes? Are players cowards? Self-involved? Apathetic? Uncaring? Do MLB players go to children’s hospitals without their people handling the arrangements?

What Marvin Miller needs is a Chris Chelios.

• Sabermetrics • MLB_Management

#1 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2008/05/29 (Thu) @ 16:02

This is our fight and, frankly, it’s our fault Marvin isn’t in the Hall of Fame. We’ve wasted too much time waiting around for this to happen. It’s time we got together and said: ‘Look, we want this to happen. Does this rule exclude Marvin Miller, and, if so, let’s change it.’ Marvin Miller taught us all to stand up for ourselves. It’s time we took the responsibility and stand up for him.

-- Brooks Robinson, Feb, 2000

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D91730F933A15751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

Brooks, go talk to Chelios.

#2 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2008/06/16 (Mon) @ 08:43

This week in player cowardice:

http://www.nysun.com/sports/players-need-to-make-stand-for-marvin-miller/80069/?print=1813263121

And I love this line:

“It’s ridiculous,” a former Yankees player representative, Jim Bouton, said. “Marvin kicked Bowie’s butt in every confrontation. It’s like having a cartoon Hall of Fame which admitted Wile E. Coyote and kept out the Roadrunner.”

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