Comments on: BBWAA institutes Schilling Rule

By: River Ave. Blues » Defending the sportswriters from a rabid Schilling

River Ave. Blues » Defending the sportswriters from a rabid Schilling — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:39:57 +0000

[...] week, when the Baseball Writers Association of American first instituted the Curt Schilling Rule which bans players from awards consideration if their contracts feature incentive clauses, I [...]

By: Journalistic ethics only go so far | River Ave. Blues | A New York Yankees blog

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:55:09 +0000

[...] Wednesday, I wrote about the BBWAA’s decision, inspired by Curt Schilling, to disqualify players with incentive clauses when it comes to award voting. Today, we hear that the Writers’ board decided to table this [...]

By: Joseph M

Joseph M — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:58:36 +0000

Sportwriters live by a double standard drifting from news reporters to news makers and back again. They essentially are covering themselves when they talk about the Hall of Fame vote, MVP vote, Cy Young vote etc.

There was an idiot named Phil Pepe who covered the Yankees for many years, Pepe would not vote for a pitcher for MVP because the pitchers have the Cy Young award! How stupid is that! Where does it say in the rules for MVP consideration that pitchers shouldn’t be considered. He made up his own rule. This goes on all the time with these guys. Writers who won’t vote for a player for the Hall of Fame because the player was not cooperative with the press, this is objective. Writers who won’t vote for a certain Hall of Famer like Seaver or Aaron because no one should get 100% of the vote.

What the players could do to defeat this proposal, every player negotiating a contract could have an MVP clause put in their contract.

By: eric from morrisania

eric from morrisania — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:36:53 +0000

The rule doesn’t apply until 2013 because if they started it now, Schilling could probably sue the BBWAA for an injunction to stop them from altering their rules as it would harm him financially, and he’d probably win.

By: eric from morrisania

eric from morrisania — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:34:39 +0000

It’s worth Jack squat, in case you were curious.

In a related story, Homer Simpson was just awarded the C. Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Acheivement in the Field of Excellence.

By: Geno

Geno — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:08:33 +0000

If only a rule could be instituted to shut Shilling up, we’d be in business.

By: zack

zack — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:39:00 +0000

Don’t know where else to put this, but the campaign paid off:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....d=tab1pos1

Joba is NEXT, FWIW

By: RZG

RZG — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:10:48 +0000

I’m happy to see this but how would the BBWAA have access to know which players have this type of clause even after 2013, will it be on the honor system?

MLB and the Players’ Association won’t care if a clause like this is included since it’s not against the Agreement between the 2 groups and they’re not responsible for telling the BBWAA what’s included in an individual’s contract.

By: jscape2000

jscape2000 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:28:42 +0000

The MLBPA ought to be thankful for this. Players can demand more money straight up, or have more performance bonuses (which are open to more players than the voting bonuses).

As Peter Abreham pointed out, incentives can still be linked to the MLBPA or Sporting News awards, as well as all the online-All Star/ TYIB awards and honors.

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/200.....e-clauses/

By: It'sMeSNITCHES!!!

It'sMeSNITCHES!!! — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:15:45 +0000

Good post.

Glad you guys are covering this. Any Dave Zirin fans out there?