It just won’t work any more. No matter how much he tries to bluster his way out of it, we all see both Donald Fehr and Bud Selig for exactly what they are…crooks.
Just the other day, Phil Mushnick exposed a scheme of Selig’s to keep a lid on public outcry at unchecked price gouging regarding MLB ticket sales. He said that now isn’t the time to get too arrogant about ticket prices…(well when would be a good time? Is there a good time to get arrogant? Is that what you’re trying to say??)
Now Donald Fehr plays “spin spin spin, dream dream dream” with the truth like we’re all the same rubes we were in the ’90s. Lupica deconstructs his paper-thin arguments here.
These laser beams light up the night sky:
“If it is true that Jeter has never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, then he is one of the innocent who weren’t protected by a union that in the end couldn’t even protect the guilty.
But Fehr, who runs this union, talking about that 94% is disingenuous at best. He sounds like Bill Clinton talking about all the interns he left alone.”
Note: Fehr is a man who was even defiant to Congress when gettingt the imperious eye from them about making massive profits off a drug-fueled workplace.
Lupica continues:
“The fact that never really goes away, no matter how much Fehr and Orza try to lawyer it away, is that they never wanted mandatory drug testing in baseball. They thought it was a violation of their players’ rights. They thought this way, Fehr and Orza did, because they were taught to do so by Marvin Miller, who made the MLBPA into the most powerful labor union in this country but, sadly over time, that also became the most arrogant and insufferable and intractable.
Miller’s theories about drug testing were passed down to Fehr and Orza as if they were the principles of a family business.”
No…that’s famiglia business. The big five crime families are no less deceitful.
Lupica winds up with this home run, before justifiably calling for Fehr’s head:
But the real money quote from Fehr is the one about how, as far as he’s concerned, baseball is in the clear now, no worries:
“So far as I know, there is not a hint or a suggestion that there is anything inappropriate or that (the current drug-testing system) isn’t doing its job in 2005, ’06, ’07 or ’08.”
He wants that to be true, the way the commissioner does. But how can anyone know that? How can anyone know for sure that the stars aren’t just using undetectable HGH now? Or does Fehr just think that it’s not “inappropriate” until his next big star gets caught?”
You know the solution: the one that will bring ticket prices down, the one that will allow small market teams a chance to copmpete again, the one that will allow the game…baseball…not MLB to be clean again.
Revoke the anti-trust exemption. Start something fresh, new. Put up some competition to MLB. They’ll get their act together, or they’ll become an also ran. Maybe that’s for the best. Because MLB and the MLBPA twisted baseball into a corporate shill game. It’s time for baseball to come back, and maybe the best way is with something else besides MLB Corp.
