Danny Knobler Gregg Doyle never hired a plumber. He rants against the MLBPA over the Francisco Rodriguez case, then tries to prove he’s not anti-union:
Only the baseball union has grown too strong. And let’s be honest: These aren’t $11-an-hour plumbers banding together to take on The Man. These are multimillionaire athletes, guys who “work” nine months a year and travel first class and have fame, fortune and groupies by the dozen.
So if you have sympathy for the MLB players union simply because it is a union, I would ask you to rethink that position. That’s a union, all right — kind of like filet mignon is hamburger.
Danny
Update: The UAW leads a pretty opulent lifestyle.
Correction: Gregg Doyle wrote the article, not Danny Knobler. I apologize to Mr. Knobler for the mistake.
whew. Where to start with this garbage?
It’s the union’s job to protect its members, no matter what. There isn’t any precedent for a contract being voided for either assault charges or injuries. The exception is Chacon, who attacked a manager.
If the union just rolled over, they wouldn’t be doing much of a service to their members, would they?
As for the loony assertion made further down the turd smear that Gregg Doyel (Not Kenny Knobbler) is trying to pass off as an opinion piece: The union isn’t driving up prices at the stadium; the popularity of the sport is.
The NFL is the perfect contrast. It has an anemic union that can’t even get guaranteed contracts for its players. NFL fans are hardly basking in the affordability of the events, the parking or the merch. The owners are going to squeeze every last dollar out of the suckers who come to the games, the union’s just there to make sure the players get theirs.