Sox take a stand
From www.survivinggrady.com:
"Details are still a bit sketchy but the bottom line is this: the Red Sox players took a stand to protect their "extended family" of coaches and trainers. It appears there was a dispute on whether or not coaches and members of the training staff would be paid the same $40,000 stipend for the trip to Japan that the players will receive. Terry Francona and the players believed that would be the case, but news contradicting that was reported yesterday. When word filtered down to the Red Sox players, they unanimously voted to boycott today's spring training game as well as the entire Japan trip if the dispute wasn't resolved. Within and hour, their demands were evidently met.
No doubt there are spin doctors working their magic to come up with a plausible story about the whole thing being a simple misunderstanding. Damage control. Whatever happens, it won't take away from what the Red Sox did as a team today to show their support to the rest of the organization.
Another reason to be proud to be a Red Sox fan."
My view: I say it's another reason to be proud of the Red Sox period. $40K isn't a lot for the players, but for the rest of the staff it means A LOT like it would to most of us. Many of them make a good salary (well, for us Joe and Jane regular people) but I still thought this was cool. Put it in the college fund for the kids or in the retirement fund, or stay out of foreclosure. Nice job by you, Red Sox boys. Hope it spilled over to Oakland too. That's only fair.
"Details are still a bit sketchy but the bottom line is this: the Red Sox players took a stand to protect their "extended family" of coaches and trainers. It appears there was a dispute on whether or not coaches and members of the training staff would be paid the same $40,000 stipend for the trip to Japan that the players will receive. Terry Francona and the players believed that would be the case, but news contradicting that was reported yesterday. When word filtered down to the Red Sox players, they unanimously voted to boycott today's spring training game as well as the entire Japan trip if the dispute wasn't resolved. Within and hour, their demands were evidently met.
No doubt there are spin doctors working their magic to come up with a plausible story about the whole thing being a simple misunderstanding. Damage control. Whatever happens, it won't take away from what the Red Sox did as a team today to show their support to the rest of the organization.
Another reason to be proud to be a Red Sox fan."
My view: I say it's another reason to be proud of the Red Sox period. $40K isn't a lot for the players, but for the rest of the staff it means A LOT like it would to most of us. Many of them make a good salary (well, for us Joe and Jane regular people) but I still thought this was cool. Put it in the college fund for the kids or in the retirement fund, or stay out of foreclosure. Nice job by you, Red Sox boys. Hope it spilled over to Oakland too. That's only fair.
Comments
I read about this as well and found it pretty admirable, especially for a bunch of guys who seem to be extremely selfish and immature (not just Red Sox players, but most of the MLB these days!)
I finally put up the blog post about all the places I've lived.
Guess what, Tag you're it!
http://cmcurtin.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-places-youll-go-or-where-youve-been.html