Brian Cashman: Yankees won't pay A-Rod's $6M bonus for 660th homer

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Cool. Can you tell me which gym exercises cause your head to double in size?

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Mike Murphy, the San Francisco Giants’ clubhouse manager, testified Monday in the home-run champion’s perjury trial that Bonds’ cap size increased for the 2002 season. It went from 7 1/4 to 7 3/8, Murphy said.
This, despite the fact Bonds had begun shaving his head.
Now, on the surface, this might not seem like a big deal. Murphy also testified that aging ex-players such as Willie Mays and Willie McCovey had required similar adjustments to their ballcaps.
However, Bonds was still in the middle of his playing career, when cap sizes rarely change. Oh, yeah, and he was also coming off a 73-homer season in which he broke Mark McGwire’s (tainted) record.
Use of human growth hormone is widely believed to cause enlarged head size, which is why I tried (without success) to obtain one of Bonds’ Pittsburgh-era baseball caps at several points in the past decade.
Thanks to Murphy’s testimony, that’s no longer necessary.
At long last, it appears we have our smoking ballcap.

Who the fuck cares if his head grew? I got a bigass head and can't hit like him.
 

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You'd lose that bet for sure. The bet that would be interesting is whether Arod is even going to fight it or not. I don't think he will.

Can The Player's Union fight it...even if Alex "decides not to"? Or does the aggrieved party have to be onboard for The Union to fight?

Seems to me it's against the best interest of The Union to have teams deciding when they need to honor contracted stuff and when they do not.
 

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Let me translate your point of view: "people picking on Barry because he's black"

Sigh.

This isn't a black issue, the same people railed on McGwire and Clemens, when they found out they were juicing.

I disagree. I've never once seen people try to post evidence of how Clemens ass grew. Get a picture of 1984 Clemens ass and compare it to 2004 Clemens ass. It was massive.
 

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I would be willing to make a forum bet that arod gets paid
I think he will get paid and should. Not sure what legal grounds the Yankees have here. Nothing to stand on in my opinion.

Hate the yanks and not an Arod fan but he should be paid.
 

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Ba‘al Zəvûv;11077595 said:
Can The Player's Union fight it...even if Alex "decides not to"? Or does the aggrieved party have to be onboard for The Union to fight?

Seems to me it's against the best interest of The Union to have teams deciding when they need to honor contracted stuff and when they do not.

I don't really know all the legal jargon but from what I read, this was a contract outside of his MLB contract and the MLBPA has no say in it. More like a marketing contract to me, like they'll pay him this sweet bonus because of the marketing they can do with these milestones. That was before of course they found out he is a liar and became hated by 90% of the community. I don't think he'd have a chance to convince the court the Yankees owe him if it has anything to do with being tied to the marketability of his home runs.
 

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I don't really know all the legal jargon but from what I read, this was a contract outside of his MLB contract and the MLBPA has no say in it. More like a marketing contract to me, like they'll pay him this sweet bonus because of the marketing they can do with these milestones. That was before of course they found out he is a liar and became hated by 90% of the community. I don't think he'd have a chance to convince the court the Yankees owe him if it has anything to do with being tied to the marketability of his home runs.

Thats the primary point then: "this was a contract outside of his MLB contract and the MLBPA has no say in it."

I wish ARod would test it just so we can see how good the language was in the contract, it'd be impressive if the lawyers had the foresight to include really finely homed language which plainly gave Yanks the right to not pay or if they included more wishy-washy wording that would wind up costing the organiztion.

I wanna know how good The Yankees lawyers are, see them tested here.
 

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