Don Fehr rumored to be stepping down as MLB union chief!

[salsadancer7]

IF this is true, then there could be some sort of power struggle amongst the ranks.


Source: Fehr to leave job after 25 years

Don Fehr is stepping down as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a position he's held since the mid-1980s, a source tells ESPN.

Fehr will be replaced by general counsel Michael Weiner, pending board approval, the source said. An announcement is expected to be made later on Monday afternoon.

Fehr, who will turn 61 in July, was voted in to lead the players' union in December 1985.


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[Ramy]

I never thought he would step down. Wonder why?

 

[anders5189]

Good riddance. Thanks for cancelling a WS and legitimizing steroids in baseball.

 

[salsadancer7]

Good riddance. Thanks for cancelling a WS and legitimizing steroids in baseball.

 

[meStevo]

Wonder if someone asked him to take a drug test and he bolted.

Here he is saying goodbye, he couldn't move his arms for some reason, they are just kinda stuck in this pose -

He said he left to spend more time with his dog.

(the above post is 100% satirical and made up)

 

[salsadancer7]

LMAO!! Donald Lost weight!!!

 

[Paul Wozniak]

Wonder if someone asked him to take a drug test and he bolted.

Here he is saying goodbye, he couldn't move his arms for some reason, they are just kinda stuck in this pose -

He said he left to spend more time with his dog.

(the above post is 100% satirical and made up)

LMAO!

 

[KCK_Halo]

It's official...


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[SamCdbs]

Good riddance. Thanks for cancelling a WS and legitimizing steroids in baseball.

Dittos.

If you are a player, particularly a cheating steriod player, then he is your guy. If you are any other part of baseball. Fan. Owner. Stadium taxpayer. Any of the 1000s of people who work in the sport from vendors thru coaches, or anybody else, then he is garbage.

Win the next strike.

 

[Ramy]

Dittos.

If you are a player, particularly a cheating steriod player, then he is your guy. If you are any other part of baseball. Fan. Owner. Stadium taxpayer. Any of the 1000s of people who work in the sport from vendors thru coaches, or anybody else, then he is garbage.

Win the next strike.

:up:up

 

[Will94]

Now if we could only get rid of Bud Selig!

 

[Ramy]

Now if we could only get rid of Bud Selig!

That would be the icing on the cake for sure.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

It's official...


Donald Fehr leaving as MLB union head - ESPN

About 20 years too late.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

He was probably the most powerful of all the player rep's in the 4 major sports. The picture above confirms this.

 

[salsadancer7]

Dittos.

If you are a player, particularly a cheating steriod player, then he is your guy. If you are any other part of baseball. Fan. Owner. Stadium taxpayer. Any of the 1000s of people who work in the sport from vendors thru coaches, or anybody else, then he is garbage.

Win the next strike.

I totally disagree. This players unions has definately had their faults....but the owners have to take MORE than their share for the condition baseball is in.

So I suppose you like owners crying poverty ALL THE TIME, and holding cities and states hostage for taxpayer stadiums ? The players union have had their faults.....that I will not deny....but the owners have ALWAYS been their OWN WORST enenmy. Tell me, IF you were the best or ONE of the best in YOUR field....OR your field of work is SO specialized that there are ONLY approx. 800 people IN THE WORLD that can do this job....would YOU like to be paid a high salary? Wouldn't you?

Tell me...who FORCED the last strong commissioner that MLB had??!! Was it the UNION??!!

Hell, even Fay Vincent HIMSELF understood the hostility the Union had for the owners.

 

[salsadancer7]

I found this interesting on wikipedia. Normally, I take some of things they post with a grain of salt, but I ALSO linked WHERE this particular post came from, just to make sure it had credibility:

The dispute was played out with a backdrop of years of hostility and mistrust between the two sides. What arguably stood in the way of a compromise settlement was the absence of an official commissioner ever since the owners forced Fay Vincent to resign in September 1992. Vincent described the situation this way:

"The Union basically doesn’t trust the Ownership because collusion was a $280 million theft by Bud Selig and Jerry Reinsdorf of that money from the players. I mean, they rigged the signing of free agents. They got caught. They paid $280 million to the players. And I think that’s polluted labor relations in baseball ever since it happened. I think it’s the reason Fehr has no trust in Selig."

Incidentally, on February 11, 1994, the owners greatly reduced the commissioner's power to act in "the best interests of baseball."

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The Business of Baseball :: The Fay Vincent Interview


So yeah....you guys keep believing the players are THE BAD GUYS....while the owners keep having our cities and states pay for BILLION dollar playgrounds so they can put their toys(the players) for your 'pleasure'.....LOL!

 

[salsadancer7]

He was probably the most powerful of all the player rep's in the 4 major sports. The picture above confirms this.

LMAO!! I just spit coffee on ANOTHER flat panel monitor. Yo know, you rat bastard, your Nostra-dumb-a$$ comments made me laugh so hard once, I ruined a flat panel monitor and had to come up with some BS excuse on HOW the inside of the monitor was filled with moisture....!!!:haha:river:haha:river

 

[anders5189]

I totally disagree. This players unions has definately had their faults....but the owners have to take MORE than their share for the condition baseball is in.

So I suppose you like owners crying poverty ALL THE TIME, and holding cities and states hostage for taxpayer stadiums ? The players union have had their faults.....that I will not deny....but the owners have ALWAYS been their OWN WORST enenmy. Tell me, IF you were the best or ONE of the best in YOUR field....OR your field of work is SO specialized that there are ONLY approx. 800 people IN THE WORLD that can do this job....would YOU like to be paid a high salary? Wouldn't you?

Tell me...who FORCED the last strong commissioner that MLB had??!! Was it the UNION??!!

Hell, even Fay Vincent HIMSELF understood the hostility the Union had for the owners.

We could go back and forth all day about who did what to baseball, but Don Fehr is worse than anything the owners ever did. Fehr's classic line about why the union opposed drug testing was that it was an invasion of privacy. Nevermind the fact that players HAVE to submit to having physicals done on them before they can be traded. What a hernia test and a prostate check aren't an invasion of privacy but a drug test is?

 

[salsadancer7]

We could go back and forth all day about who did what to baseball, but Don Fehr is worse than anything the owners ever did. Fehr's classic line about why the union opposed drug testing was that it was an invasion of privacy. Nevermind the fact that players HAVE to submit to having physicals done on them before they can be traded. What a hernia test and a prostate check aren't an invasion of privacy but a drug test is?

Ok....your argument above is for the best interest of the game.....correct? When the owners put a legit commissioner in power....one that will stand up to BOTH ownership AND the players.....then come back to me....

...when owners PROVE poverty when they hold city and states hostage....then comeback to me....

...until then, you argument holds no water...

 

[anders5189]

Ok....your argument above is for the best interest of the game.....correct? When the owners put a legit commissioner in power....one that will stand up to BOTH ownership AND the players.....then come back to me....

...when owners PROVE poverty when they hold city and states hostage....then comeback to me....

...until then, you argument holds no water...

You're confusing two different issues. The owners worst deed is strong arming local communities to get new ballparks built. While it is arrogant that people like George Steinbrenner demand that taxpayers build him a new stadium things like this don't directly undermine the game. Having a union boss that fights against drug testing so that people like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens can enrich themselves and completely distort the game does hurt baseball.