Three cheers for the Boston Red Sox players for doing the right thing..

[joeybee12]

...and standing up for their entire staff!!!

:toast: :bounce:

[BOSSHOG]

1. Okay Joey

lets get specific.

[MaineDem]

3. Resolution reached in Japan pay flap

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Red Sox ended a threatened boycott today of their final spring training game in Florida and their flight to Japan, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip overseas. A major league source said that all staff associated with the trip will be compensated.
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The game against Toronto started an hour late when the team voted unanimously not to play or go to Tokyo after learning coaches and staff would not get a $40,000 appearance fee for the Japan trip. Players said they believed that fee was part of the original deal.

According to the major league source, in the past, the coaches' compensation has come from the players' portion of the pool. This time around the coaches were eliminated from that pool.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/03/19/it_appears_resolution_reached_in_japan_pay_flap/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Red+Sox+news

[BOSSHOG]

4. Thanks very much

Listen real hard because you won't hear it again but I am cheering for the Red Sox right now.

[MaineDem]

5. I'm going to save this thread.

;)

[Forkboy]

6. Bookmarked.

:)

[BOSSHOG]

7. You sick bastards

Thats what the designated hitter and artificial turf does to you, not to mention tacky uniforms.

[MaineDem]

8. What artificial turf?

All natural at Fenway, baby!

I'll agree with the DH. Tacky uniforms? Remember the old Houston Astros'? Now those were tacky unis. Maybe you're talking pinstripes. In that case, yes, tacky. :hide:

[BOSSHOG]

21. How bout the old White Sox Unis with shorts

And I did not care for the Phillies Uniforms from about 70 till about 95. I liked them going back to a more traditional look.

[SpiralHawk]

15. Yay Bosox! - uniting Patriots for Paychecks across this great nation of ours...

[rocktivity]

10. "In the past, the coaches' compensation has come from

the players' portion of the pool. This time around the coaches were eliminated from that pool."

Eliminated by whom, I wonder, if this arrangement has been standard procedure. I doubt it was an accident or accounting error.

:shrug:
rocknation

[rcsl1998]

25. Excellent!

[joeybee12]

9. sorry, I just assumed everyone had on ESPN cuz they were

playing this nonstop! :blush:

[BOSSHOG]

22. Thanks Joey

I seldom watch TV ceptin for live sporting events.

[joeybee12]

23. I should have known...since you particularly avoid it when they talk

about anything Boston or New England-related! :evilgrin:

[MaineDem]

2. Great move!

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/03/19/it_appears_resolution_reached_in_japan_pay_flap/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Red+Sox+news

I turned the game on late thinking I had missed most of it. Looks like the delay was over an hour but it worked out int he end. (Except they lost the game.)

[gorenobel]

11. What's the story here?

I haven't been keeping up with the sports world as of late.
Can you please tell me what happened with the Red Sox players?

[MaineDem]

12. See post #3. n/t

[Forkboy]

13. See the poster's profile.

;)

He's a nightly troll. He'll be back by midnight. :)

[MaineDem]

19. Ahh, I see. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

14. Now if only the fans would stand up for the millionaire players against the billionaire owners....

... I wonder what could possibly be the reason?

[SpiralHawk]

16. Ya gotta wonder how this is going to play in Japan...?

Hmmm?

[Forkboy]

17. Fine, because they're still going.

And DiceK's wife just had a baby!!!! I'm sure it'll be a happy homecoming. :)

[MaineDem]

18. Those are the oddest balloons I've ever seen

:D

[joeybee12]

20. Quick, hide those balloons...they're like...OMG...what about the children!

admit it, you know what they look like! }(

[Twillig]

26. They look like inverted

double chamber bongs.

Or sex toys. Big sex toys.

[joeybee12]

27. I think they look like sex toys. Then again...

...I think pretty much everything looks like a sex toy! :blush:

[MaineDem]

28. Or both

B-)

[joeybee12]

29. I could say somthing rude they both serve similar purposes, since one is place inside your mouth...

...and the other, well...:blush:

[rcsl1998]

24. Oakland Players Also Voted To Support Their Coaches...

...after the Red Sox players vote, but their spring training game was hours later and was resolved before their vote became an issue with MLB - The fact that this was a nationally televised spring training game may have expedited the resolution - MLB (and/or MLBPA) meet egg