More On Romero's Suspension

Phil Sheridan has a follow up to the initial ESPN report and boy does it just make you angrier. Not at Romero but at the way it appears MLB handled the whole situation.

Comments

[RyanAbrams77]

RE-POST:(law student) I haven't read the MLBPA boilerplate contract, but even if it has a clause in it that says otherwise, arbitration is not binding in a court of law. It is possible that the arbitration hearing could be used as evidence of negligence, but would not prove negligence.

His lawyer can challenge the validity of the clause and probably get a judge to rule that it is void as a matter of public policy. Think about it: the players have no choice but to sign whatever the MLBPA puts in front of them if they want to play ball. This is what is called a "contract of adhesion", and judges normally will take into account the bargaining power of the parties when deciding whether or not to enforce parts of these contracts.

The MLB, powerful as it may be, cannot circumvent the law and do whatever the fuck it feels like doing and violate the rights of its employees. He deserves his day in court, and he will get it. He should take it to a federal court, because federal judges usually don't give a flying fuck about some big corporation bearing down on them. They are appointed for a term and then when its over its over. So they don't have to kiss any big-money ass.

Damn I wish I would graduate already so I could take the MLB to the woodshed on this one.

[king myno]

An absolute disgrace. The only thing that's gonna make this better is that MLB is going to see Phillies fans out in force. If anyone can get an email address to contact anyone in power at MLB, they need to be flooded with well-written emails about how they could not have handled this worse.

[yellowbird]

FREE J.C.!!!!

FUCK MLB!!!

[doubleh]

The MLBPA had a change of heart, huh? Sounds like they screwed up and are using Romero as their poster boy because he plays for a team that will never make waves about it and he's just a reliever. Absolute BS.

[Ryan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3812620

Sergio Mitre of the Yanks gets the same raw deal. The MLB is on fire today.

[Zach]

arbitrator = douchebag

[707]

Shame on Ruben Amaro for not commenting on the situation. Show some guts and stick up for one your players.

[David F.]

I made a couple "Free JC" logos tonight...sent them along to the powers that be at the700level so hopefully they get posted tomorrow.

[JSB34]

agreed. Shame on Ruben and the Phillies. Hopefully they'll step up and support their player. Someone needs to find an mlb email address to bombard.

[Walklett]

The best quote of the article:

"Either baseball believes Romero cheated and allowed him to compete in the World Series, or it believes he made an innocent mistake and is suspending him 50 games anyway.

Which would be worse?"

Bud Selig is an absolute joke.

[mattindc]

Given the circumstances, I can't believe they tried to make him incriminate himself. That's the kind of thing you would do if there was obvious guilt, like someone failed multiple drug tests for a clearly illegal substance, NOT so you can cover your own ass for poor communication. That was really despicable.

[PM]

Ryan Abrams777: the standard player contract is the product of collective bargaining between the union and MLB. Go talk to your antitrust and labor law profs about what that means! It is not a contract of adhesion (like a life insurance policy) and in fact the arbitration process is given great deference from all courts of law; like they need MORE cases to litigate? Check it out, you will see what I mean. BTW, turn tail and run like hell from the legal profession while you can!

[Danielle the Phillies Nut]

JC -the real Phans know the truth. There are hundreds , if not thousands of petitions and letters going to that old vampire bastard Selig. even if he doesn't change his mind ,he's gonna know that he is one of the most hated people in Philadelphia.Thank GOD this site doesn't have those brain-dead Mets fans chiming in.You should see the other blogs .I am having a stroke. RUBEN-how the hell could let JC take the fall??? Goddamned punk.Any respect that I had for you is done.Can't wait to boo you ass on opening day