Selig: Team Might Not Make Payroll

Associated Press ^ | 07/10/2002 | Morry Gash

[denydenydeny]

Marlins?

[Mike Fieschko]

Don't know. I heard the story on WFAN (all sports talk here out of NY), before posting, and the speculation is starting up.

Wasn't there something earlier this year that the D-backs and Giants were on week-to-week credit lines?

[nonliberal]

Selig needs to resign ASAP!

[JZoback]

Selig needs to resign ASAP!

Selig is to baseball what Dr.Kervorian is to medicine.

Dr. Death.

The patient started dying in 1994.

[clintonh8r]

MLB Death Watch...

[Lunatic Fringe]

I'm not sure Selig is the problem.

Higher and higher salaries, higher ticket prices, higher food prices... Hell, between parking, tickets, and food a family night for four decent seats at the Ballpark in Arlington will run you about $200.

Baseball is cutting it's own throat. Thank God it is only 3 weeks to pre-season NFL football!

[mlibertarianj]

Funny these same guys who cry poverty, are the first one to deny all attempts to open up the books. Of course I would like to see if these yo-yos, show proof that they were forced at gun point, to pay these players these salaries.
I feel sorry for all the taxpayers around the country, who got raped by the owners and the politicians who built these stadiums!

[Vidalia]

Another re-bitch of..... Bud Selig did what?

This dork stopped the game at 7-7 in the 11th... what the hell and why? Was it his personal call?

A "game" is a contest and one side is gonna lose and one is gonna win.

Those are the base essentials of any contest.

Screw this loon, why even have the game with a Commissioner who has the brain of a garter snake running the show?

We've just had the home-run "CONTEST", Mr. Selig! Are you going to stop that fun when Barry and Sammy hit 15, or 20 and JUMP UP AND YELL "IT'S OVER, THEY'VE DONE THEIR BEST?"

What a pathetic P.O.S. you are.

It must be true, alien cross-breeding is beginning to show it's ugly head...

[NYCVirago]

Don't know. I heard the story on WFAN (all sports talk here out of NY), before posting, and the speculation is starting up.

Did you hear Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's interview with Marvin Miller? How in the world is the Mad Dog so popular -- he asks very long, convoluted questions, gives the interviewee two seconds to answer, then he interrupts and answers his own question!

[100%FEDUP]

"Did you hear Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's interview with Marvin Miller? How in the world is the Mad Dog so popular -- he asks very long, convoluted questions, gives the interviewee two seconds to answer, then he interrupts and answers his own question!"

"Mad Dog" is in love with the nasal annoying sound of his own voice. He's been this way since he started at FAN!

[Mike Fieschko]

Did you hear Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's interview with Marvin Miller?

I heard parts of it, and what I heard was Russo trying to get Miller stop talking about the 1960s and 1970s, and have him talk about what the problems and solutions are now.

Anyway, Mad Dog's a Giants fan, and hates the Yanks. I started rooting for the Yanks in 1967, after the Dodgers lost to Baltimore in the Series.

[Moosehead]

Baseball is the best value around for most cities. In Kansas City, I can get great seats for $10. Parking is $6, and you are allowed to bring in your own food. If you don't go to the game to buy the high priced cokes and souveniers, you get quite a bargain. Of course, if the Royals ever start winning the prices will go up. But supply and demand is what drives the ticket prices; the Royals suck, the fans are pissed at the front office ineptitude and have stayed away in droves.

[SCHROLL]

Fox Sports South was reporting it may be the Detroit Tigers.

My local news, WIS TV in Columbia,SC said that another unnamed team may not make it through the end of the season.

Now we know why the players chose not to make any strike plans in their meeting. They're afraid they may not have jobs to come back to.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Good

[Kush]

Thank God it is only 3 weeks to pre-season NFL football!

Brother, you ain't just whistling Dixie. To hell with the whole sorry lot. Too many teams, sky-rocketing payrolls, refusal to implement genuine revenue sharing, and Steinbrenner have killed it. Please, go on strike, end the season. We can get the grass down early at Joe Robbie (I will always call it that, he built it out of his own pocket, for crying out loud)and I won't have to worry about Ricky Williams blowing out his knee every time he has to run through that dirt. Whether or not he can get home from the game without getting pulled over is another matter. Pete Rozelle (sp?) was a freaking genius. Thank God for football.

[NormsRevenge]

They Killed the Golden Goose .. It was a joint operation .. Owners and Players both did their parts.

Pro Baseball isn't the game it used to be .. No LOss. Except to the fans and the agents.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Kush, Ricky Williams is the answer to my prayers! =)

And yes, it will always be Joe Robbie Stadium to me. The man listened to the fans, and kept the Dolphins in Miami by building a new stadium himself instead of asking for the taxpayers to foot the bill.

I hope the Marlins are the team to be contracted.

[Timesink]

From a later version of this article that moved at 5:17 AM ET:

Meanwhile, several congressmen sent a letter to players and owners urging them to adopt a drug-testing policy, The Herald of New Britain, Conn., reported.

"Instituting mandatory, random drug testing is the only way to signal that our nation's pastime is serious about banning steroids," the letter said.

Is this really one of the more important issues facing our nation today, Congressmen?