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Don Fehr, the controversial long-time executive director of Major League Baseball's Players Association, is retiring after 25 years. He will leave a controversial legacy on a number of issues, such as the explosion of players' salaries and his role in the 1994 Strike that resulted in the World Series being canceled. The most important and damaging part of his legacy will be his handling of the issue of steroid testing. Why did he mess up the steroid issue so badly? That he screwed it up is almost beyond discussion at this point. Even he admitted before Congress that he misjudged the situation and failed to handle it properly.
The steroid scandal is in another league because it goes to the credibility of the game itself and it will taint the legacies of some of the most famous players in Major League history as well as an entire era of play. Of course, there is plenty of blame to go around and many others deserve that blame, but he was different. As the powerful representative of the players', he was often the lone voice of opposition to steroid testing for years. Is there any doubt that if he had insisted on comprehensive steroid testing in 2000 or 2002, the game of baseball would be in a much better position today?
The steroid scandal was a ticking time-bomb that was going to explode at some point. That should have been obvious, especially to someone involved with the issue so closely and for so long. Perhaps he fell into a trap of opposing anything and everything proposed by the Commissioner, even if it had merit. He possibly thought that is would send a bad message for the Players Association to give in on anything and reduce their influence in other areas. It really, though, should not have been that difficult to see that blind opposition to steroid testing was unsustainable and would result in negative effects in later years.
The current situation is unpleasant for baseball: widespread suspicion, ruined careers, suspensions and a tainted era in the record books. He did not create the problem, but bears responsibility for prolonging it. When the subject of testing for steroids was first really starting to make headway in 2002, Fehr testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, and others were disappointed with his response:
Tom Verducci writes in Sports Illustrated that Fehr thought letting the steroid culture run its course was advisable.
It was a messy, ugly issue to start with and has only gotten worse over time. Dealing with it effectively for Fehr would have meant selling the players on the necessity of steroid testing. As difficult as it is to imagine the players jumping at it in the early years of the scandal, something tells me that if he could have explained how their earning potential was tied to being in a clean sport, they would have gone along with it. He (and others) made a series of bad choices and baseball will be dealing with the consequences for a long time. The game of baseball is paying a heavy price, and so will Fehr's legacy.
Sandra
Don Fehr, the controversial long-time executive director of Major League Baseball's Players Association, is retiring after 25 years. He will leave a controversial legacy on a number of issues, such as the explosion of players' salaries and his role in the 1994 Strike that resulted in the World Series being canceled. The most important and damaging part of his legacy will be his handling of the issue of steroid testing. Why did he mess up the steroid issue so badly? That he screwed it up is almost beyond discussion at this point. Even he admitted before Congress that he misjudged the situation and failed to handle it properly.
The steroid scandal is in another league because it goes to the credibility of the game itself and it will taint the legacies of some of the most famous players in Major League history as well as an entire era of play. Of course, there is plenty of blame to go around and many others deserve that blame, but he was different. As the powerful representative of the players', he was often the lone voice of opposition to steroid testing for years. Is there any doubt that if he had insisted on comprehensive steroid testing in 2000 or 2002, the game of baseball would be in a much better position today?
The steroid scandal was a ticking time-bomb that was going to explode at some point. That should have been obvious, especially to someone involved with the issue so closely and for so long. Perhaps he fell into a trap of opposing anything and everything proposed by the Commissioner, even if it had merit. He possibly thought that is would send a bad message for the Players Association to give in on anything and reduce their influence in other areas. It really, though, should not have been that difficult to see that blind opposition to steroid testing was unsustainable and would result in negative effects in later years.
The current situation is unpleasant for baseball: widespread suspicion, ruined careers, suspensions and a tainted era in the record books. He did not create the problem, but bears responsibility for prolonging it. When the subject of testing for steroids was first really starting to make headway in 2002, Fehr testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, and others were disappointed with his response:
Management officials were disappointed at Fehr's stand on testing. "Everyone in the room — with the exception of one person — favors the testing program. There wasn't much opposition, just one abstention," said MLB President and Chief Operating Officer Bob DuPuy, referring to Fehr.
It is particularly ironic that in his zeal to protect the players from the evils of testing, he ended up hurting those same players much more than if they just had the testing from the beginning. How many of them wish now that they had stringent, Olympic-style testing from 1996 (or even 2000) onward? Fehr said for a long time that testing would be an invasion of privacy for the players. This argument was flimsy and counterproductive. Other sports have had tough steroid testing for years: the NFL started testing in 1987!
Tom Verducci writes in Sports Illustrated that Fehr thought letting the steroid culture run its course was advisable.
He truly believed he was doing right by his players by letting the steroid culture run its course, by some ratio of design to ignorance (though more than a dollop of ignorance from such a smart man challenges the imagination).
If true, this says a lot about Donald Fehr and why his response to the steroid scandal was so inadequate. There was never any chance of the issue running its course on its own. Even if the culture of steroids could have "run its course" (which is doubtful), testing was needed so that people on the outside could be certain that the game was clean.
It was a messy, ugly issue to start with and has only gotten worse over time. Dealing with it effectively for Fehr would have meant selling the players on the necessity of steroid testing. As difficult as it is to imagine the players jumping at it in the early years of the scandal, something tells me that if he could have explained how their earning potential was tied to being in a clean sport, they would have gone along with it. He (and others) made a series of bad choices and baseball will be dealing with the consequences for a long time. The game of baseball is paying a heavy price, and so will Fehr's legacy.
Sandra
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Personally I would like to see the union protect the clean players too, not just the dirty players.
Sandra
Well...unfortunately.....you cannot have both....you either have all or nothing. IF you go back to nothing....then you go back to the Curt Flood days of pseudo slave trade...
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Who do you think is going to be the first player to disagree with a union?
CBA's over the years have protected the cheaters much more than the collective.
Sandra
Who do you think is going to be the first player to disagree with a union?
CBA's over the years have protected the cheaters much more than the collective.
Sandra
Who do you think is going to be the first player to disagree with a union?
CBA's over the years have protected the cheaters much more than the collective.
Sandra
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From your fellow union members who are using illegal drugs to make themselves better ballplayers than you. And they're protected by your own union.
Sandra
From your fellow union members who are using illegal drugs to make themselves better ballplayers than you. And they're protected by your own union.
Sandra
From your fellow union members who are using illegal drugs to make themselves better ballplayers than you. And they're protected by your own union.
Sandra
This is just like clean cops/dirty cops. They wanna make sure EVERYONE knows they are clean...but refuse to clean it up among themselves because they are afraid of be considered a "rat".
...well, time to "rat" people out if you wanna make sure everyone knows you are not one of "them".
...ESPECIALLY if the clean outnumber the dirty ones.
Season 2 order already in hand:
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
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I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home thoughI don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
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I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
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I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Simple, charming. Entire premise is quite silly but Cary Grant carries it across the line in good fashion.
Simple, charming. Entire premise is quite silly but Cary Grant carries it across the line in good fashion.
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This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.
As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
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