MLB has an interesting way of counting. So, a player caught using performance enhancing drugs the first time gets a 50-day suspension.
But wait kiddies! Even though you are suspended, you can go to the minors for a 'rehab assignment'?????
If the suspension is from Major League Baseball for 50-days, then why should the 'rehab' start before the 50 days are over????
See, last night Manny Ramirez, he of the female hormones, began his rehab assignment at the Dodgers Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes (named after the Springfield Isotopes of 'Simpsons fame') last evening. Now his 50-day 'suspension' ends on July 3rd, but I guess MLB counts differently.
If you want to make a statement that drugs are a NO-NO, then make a damn statement!
But wait kiddies! Even though you are suspended, you can go to the minors for a 'rehab assignment'?????
If the suspension is from Major League Baseball for 50-days, then why should the 'rehab' start before the 50 days are over????
See, last night Manny Ramirez, he of the female hormones, began his rehab assignment at the Dodgers Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes (named after the Springfield Isotopes of 'Simpsons fame') last evening. Now his 50-day 'suspension' ends on July 3rd, but I guess MLB counts differently.
If you want to make a statement that drugs are a NO-NO, then make a damn statement!
Speaking of MLB, the MLB Players Association announced that Donald Fehr who joined the MLBPA as general counsel in 1977 and was named executive director in 1985, will be stepping down.
Fehr has been a constant on the scene for so long, it will be strange without him. During his tenure the average baseball salary rose from $300,000.00 to $3,000,000.00!
He stymied the implementation of steroid testing for many years. He has been criticized by some for not agreeing to drug testing until 2002.
"He was wrong to see things in terms of civil liberties for the players and not in terms of the overall interests of baseball," Fay Vincent, former Commissioner of the MLB said. " He always said that was your responsibility [the commissioner and the owners]. But I don't want to harp on that as it is just one aspect of an outstanding career."
"If we, I, had known or understood what the circumstances were a little better, then perhaps we would have moved sooner," was Fehr's response.
Fehr presided over a two-day strike in 1985 followed by a 32-day lockout in 1990 and a 7½-month strike in 1994-95 that wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years.
There has been labor peace for the last 14 years of his tenure.
In all, Fehr should be remembered for his determination and desire to get the most possible for his union members.
Did he do it correctly every time? Absolutely not, but in the end, he did it correctly a majority of the time.
Fehr has been a constant on the scene for so long, it will be strange without him. During his tenure the average baseball salary rose from $300,000.00 to $3,000,000.00!
He stymied the implementation of steroid testing for many years. He has been criticized by some for not agreeing to drug testing until 2002.
"He was wrong to see things in terms of civil liberties for the players and not in terms of the overall interests of baseball," Fay Vincent, former Commissioner of the MLB said. " He always said that was your responsibility [the commissioner and the owners]. But I don't want to harp on that as it is just one aspect of an outstanding career."
"If we, I, had known or understood what the circumstances were a little better, then perhaps we would have moved sooner," was Fehr's response.
Fehr presided over a two-day strike in 1985 followed by a 32-day lockout in 1990 and a 7½-month strike in 1994-95 that wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years.
There has been labor peace for the last 14 years of his tenure.
In all, Fehr should be remembered for his determination and desire to get the most possible for his union members.
Did he do it correctly every time? Absolutely not, but in the end, he did it correctly a majority of the time.
Weird Al Yankovic is back with his first track “Craigslist” from his INTERNET LEAKS EP due out later this summer. This is a brand new original track for Al, however, he was able to get The Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek to play on it!
The video was shot by Liam Lynch whose credits include MTV’s Sifl & Olly Show, Tenacious D: Pick Of Destiny, music videos for Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal!
Check it out HERE. Don’t forget to add Al’s widget to all of your personal pages! Find it HERE
For all the latest on Weird Al himself, check out HIS WEBSITE.
The video was shot by Liam Lynch whose credits include MTV’s Sifl & Olly Show, Tenacious D: Pick Of Destiny, music videos for Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal!
Check it out HERE. Don’t forget to add Al’s widget to all of your personal pages! Find it HERE
For all the latest on Weird Al himself, check out HIS WEBSITE.
LOVE IS THE ANSWER, the new studio album from Barbra Streisand, will be available everywhere on Tuesday, September 29.
The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005's Guilty Pleasures, and first new Barbra Streisand album since Live In Concert 2006.
Love Is The Answer provided an opportunity for Streisand to work for the first time with the Grammy-winning Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and her quartet (guitar, bass, drums) who brought a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's spare and subtle accompaniments.
Also working with Ms. Streisand is the legendary songwriter ("The Shadow of Your Smile") and Grammy-winning arranger Johnny Mandel who worked with Streisand on her 1993 Back to Broadway album and arranged/co-produced Krall's 1998 Grammy-winning When I Look In Your Eyes.
The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005's Guilty Pleasures, and first new Barbra Streisand album since Live In Concert 2006.
Love Is The Answer provided an opportunity for Streisand to work for the first time with the Grammy-winning Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and her quartet (guitar, bass, drums) who brought a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's spare and subtle accompaniments.
Also working with Ms. Streisand is the legendary songwriter ("The Shadow of Your Smile") and Grammy-winning arranger Johnny Mandel who worked with Streisand on her 1993 Back to Broadway album and arranged/co-produced Krall's 1998 Grammy-winning When I Look In Your Eyes.
This one just popped onto my iTunes and I found myself smiling...do NOT ask me why...
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