retiring, unretiring!! and then going to different teams! where is loyalty in sports? shouldn't baseball re-write contract laws?
2007-05-09 06:30:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Nothing if teams are willing to pay so what.
2007-05-09 06:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by Chad K 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Loyalty is a two-way street (outside of certain political families, anyway). Players owe no more loyalty to their teams than the teams do to the players, and the teams are not loyal at all. So be it.
If there's ever another situation like the one Clemens is making an annual habit of, we can worry about it then. The only difference between him and every other free agent is the timing. And if the Yankees are willing to offer a contract, who is anyone else to gainsay that decision?
I don't think we'll see another player take this approach to, um, contract negotiations for a long time. It wouldn't work for a hitter, because there's always another bat, almost as good (and possibly to get better, if young) for less. Pitching, though, yeah, teams will pay for pitching, because there's never enough good pitching available, and Rocket is, even at his advanced baseball age, still among the very best.
Watch, he'll prove it in just a few weeks' time.
EDIT: The reserve clause, long may it rot in history's dustbin, enabled servitude, not loyalty.
2007-05-09 06:56:18 · answer #2 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think players should be allowed to sit around and pick and choose what team they are going to sign with in the middle of the season. Thats not what baseball is all about. You should have to be with your team from training camp until the end of the season. Roger Clemens is making a mockery of the beloved game by coming and going as he so pleases. The Yankees are fools for paying one cent for this jerk, that is why they will not win the series this years.
Lets Go Mets 2007 World Champions!!
2007-05-09 06:52:09 · answer #3 · answered by joyce 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Danny, I don't think there is any loyalty left in any of the major sports anymore. It is all driven by the dollar sign. Clemens is not the only athlete that has pulled this stunt, it goes on even in college sports, with student athletes switching schools for better percs. As long as people are willing to pay a couple of hundred dollars to take a family of four to a game and networks pay hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast these game, the athletes will follow the money.
I remember, years ago, Al Kaline, arguably the greatest right fielder of all times being offered a one hundred thousand dollar contract in his 18th year with the Detroit Tigers. He turned it down. He said that his abilities had deteriorated and he did not feel he was worth that amount, and would stay with his old contract figure. They don't make them like that anymore!!!!!
2007-05-09 06:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by gerald M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no loyalty. It is all just business, on every level. Take A-Rod signing with NY for example. Prior to the signing it looked like he wanted to go to Boston. Boston wanted him, he wanted it to happen. The players union wouldn't let it happen because they didn't want to set the precedent in contract negotiations that would have been required to get A-Rod out of his current situation and into a Boston uniform. NY comes around, ponies up more money, and all is good. The union didn't care about their members desire on that one, they just wanted to make sure the correct salary was being paid in the end. It's all about the $. period.
2007-05-09 06:43:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no loyalty any more and players admit it that they treat it as a business, which it is their job so why shouldn't they. And can you really blame them if a player was loyal and that organization knows it they are not going to pay the players worth just because they know hes not going any where. So bottom line as long as a player continues to produce and someone is willing to pay and theres no salary cap, more power to Roger.
2007-05-09 07:00:59 · answer #6 · answered by Red Chevy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is whats sad about baseball, what about Johnny Damon going from the Red Sox to the Yankees, right after the Sox beat the Yanks in the ALCS. How is that any loyalty
2007-05-09 06:35:14 · answer #7 · answered by 7 Words You Can't Say On T.V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All that went out the window when the reserve clause was struck down. I don't think baseball can change contract laws, because that would go against the anti-trust ruling.
2007-05-09 08:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clemens is unique. He is 44 years old but he is one of the best pitchers in the game. And you know he still has a few years left in him. What should be done about him? Let him go the highest bidder. Even if it means changing teams every year.
2007-05-09 06:36:13 · answer #9 · answered by Mentiso 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its called free enterprise and baseball would lose in court if it tried to bloc a player from earning a living.
2007-05-09 08:14:30 · answer #10 · answered by ronald g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe nothing should be done. Just ban him for coming back to TEXAS in any way or form!
2007-05-09 07:04:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋