It wouldn’t be a road trip for Shannon if Mets news didn’t break. He was just packing last night and couldn’t pay attention to twitter and it happened. Now he is down at PSL taking pics of the Mets first Spring Training game of the year, and this comes over the twitter wire from @espnnewyork.
The executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association said he has “every confidence” that the New York Mets will meet all their financial obligations to their players in light of published reports that the team needed a $25 million loan from the league to deal with cash shortfalls caused by ownership’s involvement with convicted swindler Bernard Madoff.
“I rely upon both the assurances we received from the commissioner’s office as well as the documents that we are entitled to under the basic agreement,” Michael Weiner said after briefing players in the New York Yankees clubhouse on the upcoming negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.”
This is a fun quote:
Weiner said he was not surprised by news that, in spite of the denials by Mets co-owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz that the Madoff affair had any adverse affect on the team’s finances, they needed the intervention of commissioner Bud Selig in November to maintain operations.
The rest of the article can be read here.
Hopefully you guys are all enjoying Shannon and my reversal of roles and his reports(and pics) from PSL. I will be monitoring all news up here in the north.I can be reached at [email protected] and @mediagoon on twitter, if you guys need to get in contact with me.
marvin miller,* the first mlbpa leader must be rolling in his grave.
*-base ball’s first jimmy hoffa?