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Fehr should join Selig...
Now that more information has come out about the J.C. Romero situation, I still fully believe that MLB Commissioner Bud Selig needs to step down, but MLBPA Executive Director Donald Fehr needs to join him.
Fehr, who took over as the executive director in 1986, is the same man who presided over the ENTIRE steroid era. Under his reign, guys like Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi, who actually admitted using steroids, are never punished, but a guy going to GNC in the mall loses a third of his season.
How can a guy lead more than a thousand players but not actually protect them from things like what happened to Romero? Romero now will sit for 50 games and lose $1.25 million, but the union won't admit it was wrong and take the blame, they just say that the problem needs to be adjusted for the future.
How about paying him back the $1.25 million that he is going to lose? How about using the same influence that forces players to take the highest dollar amount in free agency, no matter which team is offering, and force a reliever to go fill that 50-game void that the Phillies now have in the 7th inning? How about doing something drastic like threatening a strike if Romero's suspension isn't lifted? What happened to solidarity? I guess that's all just propaganda to Fehr.
You know what, maybe the players' union should just go away since all it does is drive free agents to Yankees and look the other way when home run hitters go through a second puberty and jump two hat sizes.
Fehr, who took over as the executive director in 1986, is the same man who presided over the ENTIRE steroid era. Under his reign, guys like Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi, who actually admitted using steroids, are never punished, but a guy going to GNC in the mall loses a third of his season.
How can a guy lead more than a thousand players but not actually protect them from things like what happened to Romero? Romero now will sit for 50 games and lose $1.25 million, but the union won't admit it was wrong and take the blame, they just say that the problem needs to be adjusted for the future.
How about paying him back the $1.25 million that he is going to lose? How about using the same influence that forces players to take the highest dollar amount in free agency, no matter which team is offering, and force a reliever to go fill that 50-game void that the Phillies now have in the 7th inning? How about doing something drastic like threatening a strike if Romero's suspension isn't lifted? What happened to solidarity? I guess that's all just propaganda to Fehr.
You know what, maybe the players' union should just go away since all it does is drive free agents to Yankees and look the other way when home run hitters go through a second puberty and jump two hat sizes.
posted by Matthew Fleishman, Yardley News Editor at
6:40 PM
10 Comments:
Let it go, Mattie. It's already gone to arbitration. Romero lost. It said on the side of the friggin container that he could test positive. He bought it anyway. You'll see him again in June.
Acutally, Romero's bottle didn't have that warning, but several months later the bottle did contain the warning.
I find it very hard to believe he didn't know what he was taking. Why the hell did Romero need to boost his testosterone?
From ESPN.com: According to multiple sources (and also reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer), Romero tested positive for 6-OXO Extreme, a product that enhances testosterone production in ways very similar to anabolic steroids. While legal and still available at your local GNC, 6-OXO Extreme* has ALWAYS carried a warning that it could result in positive tests. If you look at the above link, you'll be able to find the same warning in the online information.
The guy's a friggin cheater. His ERA in 2006 was 6.70.
Because you have the intelligence of the south end of a horse walking north, I will point out that you're obviously missing the point. It isn't so much that Romero was not intelligent enough to read a warning that the Inquirer originally reported was NOT on the bottle, the point is why did Selig totally drop the ball in responding to it. He should have stepped in and said "Hey JC, you're not playing till this is settled." but he didn't do anything. Also even if he did cheat it would have in no way impacted the outcome of the Mets season, after all JC's shopping at GNC doesn't make a team collapse in September.
Nothing like a good inferiority complex! What does any of this have to do with the Mets? You just can't get them out of your heads, even though the Phils won the World Series?
Pathetic and sad.
Actually, I mentioned the Mets cause I knew you would quick look back to me calling you sad and pathetic and make sure you could use it here. Anyways this blog has been quiet I thought maybe you actually decided to end it, what with the holidays and all. I guess your mom caught you and the grandmom porn and cut back your internet time. Hopefully she doesn't have a net nanny on your computer or you wont be able to read this post. Anyways again you neglected to look at the point of the post.
I get the point of the post. Your pitcher cheated, you're upset about it, and you think the Commissioner should be banned from the game.
Grow up, dude. The guy cheated. He's ingesting stuff created by the same guy behind BALCO. Did you really think his ERA just magically dropped by four runs a game? Are you that naive?
Oops ... gotta go. Dentures and Dicks Part 12 is on. I'll be back later.
Hey all! Regardless of whether or not the bottle had a warning or not, it still remains that Donald Fehr leads a group that only cares about the amount of money that free agents sign for, and not about having "clean" players. In addition, Bud Selig presided over this mess and did nothing to stop it until the sport was once again making money hand over fist. I believe, regardless of the Romero situation, that both need to go before baseball will see meaningful PED enforcement. My best suggestion is to have a player head the union, and not just have team reps. Someone with clout like Tom Glavine or Greg Maddux or Ken Griffey Jr. leading the charge with actual power behind their words would get things changed for the better.
Fair point. ... Not sure how anyone can keep up with technology, though.
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