Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Solidarity...with management?!?!

From boston.com

Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell confirmed to the Globe's Jackie MacMullan that team voted unanimously this morning not to make the scheduled trip to Japan or play its final exhibition game against Toronto this afternoon unless the coaches, training staff, and equipment staff were going to be compensated for making the trip to Japan.
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Bloggers note: The players are each getting 40k to do this trip and voted to do the trip with that and probably some other stipulations. Another report cited that in the agreement the coaches and management were to get 40k as well. Players must have just learned that either that wasn’t true or it had been removed. Either way, players want the coaches to get what they’re getting.

Can’t wait to see how Selig bungles this one.

UPDATE: MLP appears to have ponied up. Sox are getting ready to play today. Mike Lowell reported that there have been other things MLB promised the players when they agreed to go that have since been taken away; that the pay for coaches and staff was only the "lastest" problem. He also made it a point to say the players original vote to go to Japan was not unanimous.

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