Donald Fehr stepping down as MLBPA Leader

by cmkelly29 on Jun 22, 2009 2:14 PM CDT Comment 19 comments

Don Fehr is stepping down as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a position he's held since the mid-1980s, a source tells ESPN.

Fehr will be replaced by general counsel Michael Weiner, pending board approval, the source said. An announcement is expected to be made later on Monday afternoon.

Fehr, who will turn 61 in July, was voted in to lead the players' union in December 1985.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4278728

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This is good

Fehr is one of those people who I have a lot of trouble seeing how he’s helped the game at all (I’d be interested in hearing otherwise if someone else has some insight).

Between his involvement in the ‘94/’95 strike debacle and the players refusals to address steroids, he won’t be missed by me. Now if we can just get a new commissioner.

Go Rice Owls!

by JBImaknee on Jun 22, 2009 2:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

the commissioner is the big one for me

Selig needs to go

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Jun 22, 2009 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes

Not a big fan of Bud Selig

by Michael Cave on Jun 22, 2009 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i dont know anyone who knows jack abotu baseball

that likes bud

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."

by knockoutking on Jun 22, 2009 8:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, Fehr has been great at his job

but no he hasnt really been good for baseball

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jun 22, 2009 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think he has represented

his customers very well. The players didn’t want to test for steroids, and giving in to the owners demands in 94 wouldn’t have been in the players long term interests.

"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers

by DJCahill on Jun 22, 2009 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bascik on the Ticket weighed in pretty negatively on him yesterday...

basically said that Fehr focused his attention on the richest few (thereby increasing his revenue since he’s paid a % of the avg salary) while basically ignoring the bottom end. Given his fixation on not letting guys like ARod give a little money back to make a deal work, I can see that accusation sticking.

The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano

by bking on Jun 23, 2009 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Considering

minimum is $400K, and considering you can get a full pension in 10 years, and lifetime medical is 1 day, I think he has done a fairly good job with the “bottom end”.

So, even a spare like Bascik has lifetime medical and a partial pension.

by DJCahill on Jun 23, 2009 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Anyone else think this is health related?

very rarely does this type of move happen in season without another driving force behind it

JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook

by laxtonto on Jun 22, 2009 2:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Maybe the 2003 steroids test results are about to be made public.

You’d want to be far away when that happens if you were him.

It would be interesting…

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by NoNameOnCard on Jun 22, 2009 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

doubtful

doesn’t seem like fehr has taken any flack for steroids except the general complaints of obstructionism or being difficult that he’s always faced

"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)

by ab03 on Jun 22, 2009 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was mostly kidding, but...

The list reportedly has 103 or 104 players on it, right? That’s a little over 3 players per team. I’d guess that’s roughly 10% of the players who were on a 25-man roster at some point.

How many of those 100+ names were All-Stars?

He presided over the union during the “entire” steroids era. He fought against testing for years. It doesn’t really matter if he knew what was going on or not, he stood in the way of something being done about it.

I’m not saying there was any wrong doing by Fehr, but I think it’s silly to absolve him completely.

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by NoNameOnCard on Jun 22, 2009 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

its not whether he should be absolved

it is whether he is being absolved. people have tried to point the finger at him and it doesn’t take. unless he wanted to go down as a saint, his legacy is fine.

"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)

by ab03 on Jun 22, 2009 6:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs