The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Yankees won a title with a bloated payroll. This sparked calls to reform baseball’s unfair financial system, even though it seemed fair last season when the Tampa Bay Rays spent 1/5 as much as the Yankees, but went to the World Series. Shockingly, Red Sox owner John Henry was the most perturbed by the [...]
The Mighty Quinn Media Machine (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I was surprised to see on my friend Matt's site, Fenway West , that the Red Sox are supposedly currently negotiating to play some MLB games in Sydney, Australia this coming March. The Sunday Telegraph of Australia basically are saying it is a done deal, and will be playing games against a yet-to-be named opponent at the Sydney Cricket Ground (pictured). A curious line from the article: The Red Sox...
Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
According to Boston.com's Nick Cafardo , Red Sox owner John Henry wants a complete overhaul of MLB's revenue sharing system. "Change is needed and that is reflected by the fact that over a billion dollars have been paid to seven chronically uncompetitive teams, five of whom have had baseball’s highest operating profits," Henry responded in an e-mail. "Who, except these teams,...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:40 a.m. Thursday Between Scott Boras' recent remarks to ESPN and Red Sox owner John Henry's recent email to the Boston Globe , there has been discussion anew about Major League Baseball's revenue sharing as it relates to low-spending teams like the Pirates. It came up again yesterday on the conference call with Mike Weiner , the union's new Donald Fehr , when he was...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 2:50 p.m. Wednesday Mike Weiner, confirmed today as the new executive of the Major League Baseball Players Association, reiterated in a conference call today that the union has no interest in a salary floor. He said that he brought to players' attention the remarks of Red Sox owner John Henry in the Boston Globe yesterday in which he charged that some teams were perennial...
