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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And it has nothing at all to do with radio guy Michael Savage, but the name certainly grabbed my attention!
Maybe Savage can replace Bud Selig as MLB commish; he couldn't do any worse.
Which baseball players head is named Don Fehr?
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.
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.
I’d always hyped for installing Dubya as Commish. He loves baseball.
shoulda quit while he was a head.......
Great call.
dainbramaged there are and have been a whole lot of pathetic dumb asses in baseball for ever.
Lots of money there ya know.
I just hope the new guy doesn't do anything stupid to decrease the value of my Barry Bonds Rookie card....
Putting a Weiner in charge of baseball. How rich.
If my last name was “Weiner” I would change it.
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
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.
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