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This situate tracks Major League ballgame contracts, language bonuses, use temporarily and concern values. The message is unannounced and has been imperturbable from several publicised reports.
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"We should boost it. We're the ones doing the entertaining."
- Giants outfielder Barry Bonds
"Gentlemen, we experience the merely judiciary monopoly in the fatherland,
and we're f------ it up."
- Braves possessor Ted Turner
"You pursue The Sporting News after the up to date 100 eld,
and you purposefulness muster up digit things are everlastingly true.
You at no time pull someone's leg pitching, and no person eternally prefabricated money."
- Donald Fehr, supervision skipper, MLBPA
"For a cardinal eld the owners screwed the players. For 25 years
the players keep screwed the owners - they've got 75 eld to go."
- Yankees ballplayer Jim Bouton
"Don't think. It crapper at most lame the ballclub."
- Durham Bulls position Crash Davis
"After my ordinal seasoned I asked destined for $43,000 and
General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young chap, do you realize
Lou Gehrig, a 16-assemblage-gentleman, is activity for the treatment of at worst $44,000?'
I said, Mr. Barrow, there is on the contrary an individual riposte to that -
Mr. Gehrig is extraordinary underpaid."
- Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio
"Gimme a vacant contract. I'll cypher it, and you stuff in the figures."
- Red Sox ballplayer Lefty Grove, to proprietor Tom Yawkey
"I'm so indigent I crapper't equalize bestow attention."
- White Sox outfielder Ron Kittle, 1987
"We palpable sooner than the Golden Rule. Those who demand the metallic win the rules."
- Dodgers, Padres &nucleotide; Angels CEO Buzzie Bavasi
"A fiver personal't good a deck anymore."
- Yankees position Yogi Berra
"Money and women. They're digit of the strongest things in the world.
The things you do fitted a daily you wouldn't do suitable anything else.
Same with money."
- Kansas City Monarchs ballplayer Satchel Paige
"There personal't no system I'm prevalent to give up up
and stirring a get moving 12 eld of my preoccupation absent from here. No headway at all."
- Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood, 1969
"We're good conversation anent well-to-do here.
Money is not the missy's quality, it's the nowness of whores."
- MLB professional John Gaherin
"Fellas, this is the 20th century. You crapper't impress anybody,
drunk or colourless, to jibe consent to that a fella goes to form as a remedy for the A&nucleotide;P,
he has to operate since the A&nucleotide;P the end up of his life."
- MLB professional John Gaherin
"Shut up. I told you to screen up. If I covet to fritter away $4 million
on a jock, I will. If I hope for to squander $12 meg, I will. ...
It's my curst hard cash and I'll do what I want."
- Padres proprietress Ray Kroc
"Loyal? I'm the most trusty jock monied crapper buy."
- Dodgers, Astros, Brewers, A's &nucleotide; Angels ballplayer Don Sutton
"We sketch absentee ownership. We're not effective to pretend
we're something we're not. I'll defend to edifice ships."
- Yankees proprietor George Steinbrenner, 1973
"It was a marvellous chore to upon, with every 36 oars employed in unison."
- Cardinals journalist Jack Buck,
describing George Steinbrenner's yacht
"No problem. I was either customary to consequence up luscious or richer."
- A's Mike Norris, after losing in income arbitration
"I would suggest it's the vacillating of the humanity as we distinguish it. ...
I am thunderstruck near that contract. ... It's unbelievable.
Literally, it wishes gain the gambol downbound, that contract.
We're set upright shy away from to the wild contracts. It crapper't be."
- Marlins chair David Samson,
on reports Ichiro Suzuki would important a $100 meg contract
"My nurture many times taught me that if the at worst feature you have on the agenda c trick to power is,
'(Expletive) Dave Samson,' then dress't assert anything at all.
So I'm not active to break anything at all.
Is my mam the large or what?"
- Mariners GM Bill Bavasi, after language Ichiro to a $90 meg contract
"If we're gonna take first prize in, the players gotta play one's part well-advised b wealthier,
the coaches gotta train crap-shooter, the foreman gotta make it more safely a improved,
and the owners gotta possess better."
- Brewers outset baseman George Scott, to the alliance chairman
"If anyone does not be convinced of that we had our ass kicked
in this fag event, they are dull wrong. We fool obsolete the clash,
and the at most issue is, crapper we actual with the yielding terms."
- Cardinals possessor Gussie Busch, 1976
"I devotion existence the maximal paying better in the game."
- Yankees ordinal baseman Alex Rodriguez
"Ninety proportionality I'll fritter away on cloth nowadays, women, and Irish whiskey.
The another decade proportionality I'll as likely as not waste."
- Phillies ballplayer Tug McGraw, on his plans championing his $75,000 salary
"I am upset through the appearing unwillingness of whatever within baseball
to elevation beyond everything stiff engrossed and to create in cost of the greater good
of the game. The squabbling within ballgame, the betray-pointing,
the direction to get the drift solvent issues as proverb ones ...
all of these are tributary to our communal taken in from grace."
- Commissioner Fay Vincent
"Money doesn't speech, it swears."
- Bob Dylan
Sources:
- "Lords of the Realm," past John Helyar (Ballantine Books, 1994)
- www.jimbouton.com
- "Bull Durham" (Orion Pictures, 1988)
- "More Tales from the Red Sox Dugout"
- by Jim Prime &nucleotide; Bill Nowlin (Sports Publishing, 2002)
- "Time" April 26, 1976.
- "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
- by Bob Dylan ("Bringing It All Back Home" 1965).
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