Letters to the Editor
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Typical Lefty Salonista Response from King
You Lefties here all SAY you support the working class, but when one voices a legitimate complaint, he gets slapped down by the man.
King, I don't think you underdstand how important respect is in the hood in which Fielder grew up in. Where he's from, if you don't roll with force, you're lost.
For example, take this one time back in '96 when he was living on Park Ave while his dad played for the Yankees... well to make a long story short, his limo driver got held up in traffice on the Major Deegan and didn't have time to clean the car before picking him up. It was covered in road salt and all the other kids (and their nannies!) made fun of him.
He vowed he would never be disrespected again and that is what has made him the man he is today.
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I must need coffee
It took me three readings to figure out that Buffalonian's letter was satire.
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Concerning KTPTO
Not gonna say "I told you so," because I didn't. I thought you were right.
But last night the Rockets completely outplayed the Nuggets in Yao's 3rd missed game. And if they continue to play the way they played last night, who knows how far they can carry on.
Yes, I think they are overachieving. But I can dream, can't I?
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So where is this going?
The good old days where players were paid whatever the owners felt like paying them? Complaining that people who make more than you have no right to complain is.....I don't know, dumb?
And where there is a thousand fold variation in what the lowest paid and the highest paid person, for the same job is......YOU'RE the people screaming like monkeys to execute all the players who've ever used a chemical booster?
What color is the sky on your planet? Seriously.
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At least he wasn't poisoning the pigeons ...
"Life is skittles and life is beer." -- Assume this is a reference to the Tom Lehrer classic?
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Re: So where is this going?
Did you even read the article? Have you ever read anything King has ever published? He went out of his way to say that those guys deserve every penny they get, he's just pointing out that it's kind of rude to complain about it to people making a fraction of that, and he's right.
Regarding performance enhancers, if you've been paying attention, King is a hell of a lot more ambivalent about it than most. He for the most part seems to think it's their body and they should be able to do what they want with it, but struggles with the questions of basic fairness and role models for kids.
If anyone is living on a different planet, it's you. I'd like to know what column you've been reading, cause it's not the same one as me.
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Buffalonian
But don't you see? Prince was right. I mean, only an idiot takes the Deegan in baseball season. If he had taken the Henry Hudson and cut across the park at 96th he would have made it in time to clean the salt off, shine the rims, and make sure that Prince fit in with the other Dalton kids.
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670K might only put him in the top 25 percent of his Dalton class. The shame!
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Good analysis
I agree with King. Although I would have summed it up something like this: Just because you're right doesn't mean you're not a douchebag.
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Prince just wants Ryan Howard money
Prince Fielder thinks he's worth the same $900,000 that the Phillies gave Ryan Howard last year.
Howard's $900,000 salary was the biggest salary ever given to a player with that amount of service time.
Prince just wants what Ryan Howard got.
Funny thing though - How did Howard react to getting the most money ever for a player with that little experience?
He complained about it.
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What??????
"No, he just whined, which essentially means he was whining to you, dear misty-eyed, spring-fevered baseball fan, about his salary, which, to review, is $670,000, and, to be clear, makes him vastly underpaid.
In terms of scale, that's kind of like me sitting down on the couch of a person who works about half-time at a minimum-wage job and complaining that I'm underpaid."
It is nothing like you "sitting down on the couch of a person who works about half-time at a minimum-wage job and complaining that I'm underpaid."
It isn't even comparative and Fielder is absolutely correct, he is underpaid by about$6.25-$9.5 Million more per season, judging by comparison to his MLB peers.
Fielder as you well know was not "sitting down" complaining to a Macdonald's employee the same age as he (personal), he was comparing himself to the performance of his peers, which is perfectly reasonable. He just works for a cheapskate whose conflicts of interest are a laughing stock. I have the vague vision of your writing this merely to gain responses from the envious, jealous and outraged at your very questionable comparison. Besides how do we know you make more than the "half-time at a minimum-wage job" if you have to wash/wax his car?
Fielder is worth $7-$10 million in a comparison to other big leaguers salaries. He is 23 years old, 158 games, 109 runs, 35 doubles, 50 hrs, 119 RBI, .288 BA .395 OBA .618 SA
Who was the last 23 year old to do that? Uhh, never.
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A deal's a deal.
Every single player in MLB signed the same contract which as King correctly points out means that it doesn't matter how well anyone does compared to anyone else at whatever position he is bound to the same compensation levels as the knuckleballer who was 10 - 16 last season. That's the way it works. He had a choice and he chose. I hear they're hiring in Japan.
Shut your piehole and play.
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@ ProfEmeritus
Well, if you had stayed with just homeruns, you might have had it right, but when you add in the other things: Al Kaline in 1956 at age 21. Check it out.
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Sure!
Yeah, sure he is making 6 figures. However, it is not like he has a job that he enjoys. It must be miserable doing what he has to do! You couldn't pay me enough to play a game every day, fly all over the country first class and have to fend of female baseball groupies! Sure he gets free uniforms, but he can't wear them anywhere else.