Sotomayor and MLB
By John Amato Wednesday May 27, 2009 3:00pmAs you know, I'm a huge baseball fan, and even Major League Baseball is saying that Sonia Sotomayor ended the strike that almost destroyed the game under the idiot, Bud Selig.
It was Sotomayor's ruling that forced Major League Baseball players and owners to resume the national pastime in 1995 after a 234-day player strike wiped out the final six weeks of the regular season and the entire postseason in 1994.
On Dec. 23, 1994, with collective bargaining negotiations at a standstill, the owners implemented a salary cap. Commissioner Bud Selig announced at the time: "We are committed to playing the 1995 season and will do so with the best players willing to play."
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The strike ended when Sotomayor issued a preliminary injunction against the owners on March 31, 1995. Three days later, the day before the season was scheduled to start, the strike was finally over. Sotomayor's decision to effectively order the 1990 work rules to be reinstated received support from a panel of the Court of Appeals for the New York-based Second Circuit, which denied the owners' request to stay the ruling.
Hey, Ted Frank of the NRO, it's not me saying this, but the MLB. It's on their own website.
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Like you, I too am a huge fan of professional sports. Baseball? Love it. Hockey? Love it. But, and this is a huge but, all major professional sports leagues are nothing more than multi-rich owners, buying trading and selling multi-rich players. Strikes? None of these clowns has the right to strike over anything. They have driven the cost of even taking a family out to a game to the point that a majority of stadiums and arenas are corporate owned seats because nobody else can afford them. So this woman forced them back to work? Big friggin' deal. If these rich obnoxious buttheads don't have the brains to figure out they are screwing the very people they need to survive, nobody should interfere with their ultrarich spats including the courts. It's obvious they care nothing for their fans.
There was some noise about another MLB strike in '02.
Nothing came of it, but I'd had enough.
Both the steroid-addled sissies that play the game and the billionaire owners for whom we buy stadiums managed to cure me of a life-long pastime.
Besides, all of MLB was on FOX, and I got sick of hearing Thom Brenneman gushing about how moral George W Bush was while I was watching the D-Backs.
And listening to Curt Schilling and Luis Gonzalez telling blue collar people to vote Republican.
Enough.
1988 when I realized it was a commodity not a passtime, and that the
players weren't heros, they were tools.
for years, too. But it became a habit.
I remember watching the likes of Colavito, Marris, Sudden Sam McDowell, Mantle and so on.
I still miss it, and if I'm driving or walking by a diamond where amateurs or high schoolers are playing - I'll stop to watch.
Though MLB is a racket, I wouldn't dis anybody for watching it. If the occasion merits, I'll say what I think about it - that's all.
I can fully appreciate how you feel. I grew up an Orioles fan (now stop that laughing, they were good once) and remember Frank and Brooks Robinson, Boog Powell, Jim Palmer, and the others. When Cal Jr. retired, a part of me did also, since he was one of the last "real" ballplayers - those who played the game because they loved it, and stayed with one team their entire career.
I still follow the O's, but it's with a sense of nostalgia for the Orioles Magic of my youth. Maybe because my world as an adult is so much more complicated that I choose to ignore all the steroids, money-grubbing, and posturing and focus on the actual play on the field. It's hard for me to imagine a more peaceful time than an evening watching a baseball game, with no distractions to pull me out of my youthful reverie.
when the Orioles were good and Eddie Murray would stop by Cleveland to massacre Tribe pitching.
What was the name of that grouchy Orioles coach? Damn, he was good.
Mike Hargrove (the Human Rain Delay) used to get to Palmer though...
...Earl Weaver! Lived and died with pitching and the three-run homer.
God, I hated those guys. :D
Every time Weaver and his crew came through Cleveland - we dropped three places.
Of course it was the same with the Bluejays, the Yankees etc etc...
...anyone who came through town caused Cleveland to drop three places.
Except in '75, when my Tigers were worse than the Tribe.
should I laugh? I'm a Cubs fan. Well more of a Sox fan but I still support the Flubs :)
... for the Nobel Peace prize instead of the Supreme Court—or at least inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame!
C&L consistently promotes network television and pro sports even
though they are cornerstones of consumer culture, the same consumer
culture that is EATING this planet. And now this is interjected into
the SCOTUS debacle. LOL good job Amato!!! is there a Sotomayor/Buffy
link as well?
I might have to change my mind about supporting her. :)
TlalocW
YESSSSSS!!!!! BOOOOYAH!!!!!!
As you know, I'm a huge baseball fan, and even Major League Baseball is saying that Sonia Sotomayor ended the strike that almost destroyed the game under the idiot, Bud Selig.
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And that ain't cricket.
Complain as some of you might, fans are still supporting major sports. And it's not because of their desire to pay lots of money to see rich prima donnas - it's because they love the game(s) and this is their outlet. The professionals are the best in their respective sports, that's why people still watch.
Yes, it's lots of fun to watch minor league and/or college ballplayers, but to see the most skilled, one must watch the pros.
Everyone has their passions. Don't turn your nose up at those who enjoy professional sports - I'm sure your some of your passions would be held in contempt by others.
Alito: My family's immigrant experience shaped judicial outlook
Via Glenn Greenwald (and one of his readers) comes a moment from Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings that will either silence Sonia Sotomayor's conservative critics or expose their hypocrisy for what it is.
In an exchange with Sen. Tom Coburn, who had asked Alito to discuss how his personal experiences shows that "he cared for the little guy," Alito said that his family's experience as immigrants influenced his outlook on immigration cases.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/27/73607...
Nice pick-up. Should be interesting to see if any Dems out there use this.
if we could have seen her opinion on the air traffic controller's strike.
Which happened when she was two years out of law school.
Defended the over-priced salaries of the players while trying to discredit Hillary's statement about health care being a "right". Not at the same time, mind you, but I think that's around when I stopped paying attention to him. That, and seeing him defend the Native-American genocide in one of his books, just because of the bullshit committed under the Aztecs. He was good at playing the "populist" card until he started railing against a populist administration. Gawd, I remember how every other day, the "liberal" media would come up with a Clinton joke, while Dumbya and Reagun would be presented as "loveable schlubs". Yeah, the media went after Bush I a lot, too, but that's only because no one had any use for him after Gulf War I.
The war he started ironically ended up backfiring against him, politically, because it was so short, that there was nothing else for him to say. I think Clinton had a similar problem with Kosovo, since it helped his approval ratings, but seemed to be more of a compensation for not being able to get the Middle East peace talks moving.
Oh, yeah, back to the topic. I'm glad the baseball thing got resolved, even though it probably only really happened, because it got over-shadowed by the O.J. trial. The owners could've appealed her injunction, but they knew no one cared anymore about the sport; and so they cut their losses. Anyway, all I care about Sotomayor is whether or not her Catholic views will hurt gay rights.
...like it's supposed to be, we wouldn't have to worry about a girl being nominated to the Supreme Court.
--Erick Erickson (BrainDeadState.com)
Having a favorite baseball team is like having a favorite oil company. It's just big business.
--Hunter Thompson (paraphrase from talk given in Boulder, CO)
Note: Erickson didn't really say that, but it's what I imagine he would think -- if he were capable of thinking.
Hunter Thompson really did say that, or words very, very close to that, possibly seasoned with a little profanity.
Well of course she issued a preliminary injunction. There are a lot of Latinos on those teams. Puerto Rican Latinos. (Snark)
When I heard that Judge Sotomayor was the pick for the Supreme Court, ending the 1994 baseball strike was the very first thing that came to mind.
Without question, that strike did cause a lot of irreversible damage to the game. Ask baseball fans in Montreal.
I was an Expo fan from 1969. I'd seen them lose in many different ways and still loved watching them. In 1994 I was sure that this was going to be THE year for them to finally win. The strike ruined that. Then Jeffrey Loria decided to sell off all his stars and ruined what could have been a dynasty.
A few years back when Florida Marlins won the world series, the camera panned to the owners box and the announcer said it was Jeffrey Loria, I almost had a stroke. If I could I would have gone through the tv screen and choked the bastard right there on national tv. I hate very, very few people in this world, Loria, though is right at the top of the heap.
When the Expo's moved to Washington, I was through with baseball.
is like cheering for laundry.
Out of all the things we could be questioning this supreme court candidate about, we are worried about what baseball team she prefers. I would prefer too ask her whether she is a nationalist or a trans-nationalist. Would she abide by the constitution of the US or The UN Charter being proposed. Would she abide by bill hr 51 which gives the president full powers over all three branches and makes congress ceremonial in name alone. By the way that bill was signed by POTUS Bush.....For those wondering and POTUS Obama has not rescinded it, Then again i never expected him too.
"A good tree bears good fruit and a bad tree bears bad fruit"
" Judge a man by not his words alone but by his actions as well"
But I have one for you, which HR 51 are you referring to? The current one is about asian carp. No I'm not being a smart ass, I would like to read the legislation your talking about. But its hard to find unless you know the year it was introduced.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837...
May 9, 2007 ... NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE
But as it shows it's a presidential directive not a house bill nor resolution.
The comment had sufficient information to look up the date unless you just want to be a smart-ass.
why I couldn't find it, I did check several previous years which is why I asked for a year. I thought it was probably a recent one and when I didn't see it in the last five years or so.....
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-51.htm
All we would need is another terrorist attack and the president can declare him sole "dictator" i meant director of the country!!!
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