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Baseball Player's head Don Fehr stepping down, to be replaced by Michael Weiner (not the radio host)
CNN/SI ^ | Monday, June 22, 2009 | Jon Heyman

Posted on 06/22/2009 12:43:55 PM PDT by jpl

Head of the players' union Donald Fehr is planning to step down, SI.com has confirmed.

Michael Weiner will take over as the chief of the union. The reasons aren't immediately clear.

Weiner has served as general counsel (the union's third-ranking executive). He leaps over Gene Orza, the union's chief operating officer. The union has come under fire in recent years for stonewalling MLB over steroid testing, with Orza enduring much of the criticism. Weiner is better liked by the central office at MLB, so this could be a positive for future negotiations (maybe).

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: athletes; baseball; entertainment; mlb; peds; steroids; unions
This probably has something to do with the utter failure of Don Fehr and Gene Orza in dealing with the steroids issue in baseball.

And it has nothing at all to do with radio guy Michael Savage, but the name certainly grabbed my attention!

1 posted on 06/22/2009 12:43:55 PM PDT by jpl
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And it has nothing at all to do with radio guy Michael Savage

Maybe Savage can replace Bud Selig as MLB commish; he couldn't do any worse.

2 posted on 06/22/2009 12:49:28 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Which baseball players head is named Don Fehr?


3 posted on 06/22/2009 12:52:15 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Please God Save The United States From The Democrats, and Barack Hussein Obama. Amen.)
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Fehr is one of the jerks responsible for an asterisk in place of the 1994 World Series. May a line drive hit him where it hurts the most.


4 posted on 06/22/2009 12:55:12 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, get a dog.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
Fehr has been the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association union for more than 25 years. Under his leadership, it has become arguably the most powerful organized labor union in the country.

While Fehr and his COO, Gene Orza, did an amazing job over the years of helping to make their clients rich (especially the superstar players), they failed the interests of their clients miserably in the steroids scandal that has consumed the game over the last few years.

5 posted on 06/22/2009 12:57:30 PM PDT by jpl (Help us Obambi Wan Kenobi, you're our only dope.)
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I’d always hyped for installing Dubya as Commish. He loves baseball.


6 posted on 06/22/2009 1:03:52 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

shoulda quit while he was a head.......


7 posted on 06/22/2009 1:07:39 PM PDT by sappy
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Dubya as Commish

Great call.

8 posted on 06/22/2009 1:13:09 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: dainbramaged

dainbramaged there are and have been a whole lot of pathetic dumb asses in baseball for ever.
Lots of money there ya know.


9 posted on 06/22/2009 1:19:03 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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"This probably has something to do with the utter failure of Don Fehr and Gene Orza in dealing with the steroids issue in baseball."

I just hope the new guy doesn't do anything stupid to decrease the value of my Barry Bonds Rookie card....


10 posted on 06/22/2009 1:19:16 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Putting a Weiner in charge of baseball. How rich.


11 posted on 06/22/2009 1:41:52 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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If my last name was “Weiner” I would change it.


12 posted on 06/22/2009 1:44:18 PM PDT by wbill
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I met Don Fehr many years ago. He was a down-to-earth class act, honorable, and always above board in his actions. But he DID represent his clients to the fullest extent.

And remember, it was due to the owner’s repeated illegal collusion, greed and stupidity that resulted in the union’s prevailing in court case after court case. You can’t blame Mr. Fehr for that. Viva MLB.

Lew, in Lenexa


13 posted on 06/22/2009 1:46:16 PM PDT by laterldf
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One low life snake replacing another. Nothing has been accomplished for the good of baseball in the last 25 years. Fehr would crawl out from under whatever rock he lived under, demand a new contract with more for the players, less for the fans, and take his pay and crawl back under the rock. Strikes, umlimited free agency, what did they accomplished? Steroid problems, teams “buying” championships, no team loyalty from players, and records that shouldn’t exist. Yep, he did a lot for baseball.


14 posted on 06/22/2009 5:01:08 PM PDT by rustyboots
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