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Post by noetsi on Mar 18, 2020 18:46:57 GMT -5
I think the players will get paid, but... "On Thursday, when Manfred announced that the 2020 season would be delayed, the first sentence of his statement included the phrase, “national emergency.” A clause in every major league player’s contract — and also included in the sport’s collective-bargaining agreement — gives the commissioner the right “to suspend the operation of this contract during any national emergency during which Major League Baseball is not played.” If Trump had not acted, the union might have argued that Manfred could not invoke a national emergency on his own." sports.yahoo.com/donald-trump-declaring-a-national-emergency-due-to-coronavirus-may-prevent-mlb-players-from-getting-paid-155823331.html |
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Post by inger on Mar 18, 2020 19:28:58 GMT -5
I think the players will get paid, but... "On Thursday, when Manfred announced that the 2020 season would be delayed, the first sentence of his statement included the phrase, “national emergency.” A clause in every major league player’s contract — and also included in the sport’s collective-bargaining agreement — gives the commissioner the right “to suspend the operation of this contract during any national emergency during which Major League Baseball is not played.” If Trump had not acted, the union might have argued that Manfred could not invoke a national emergency on his own." sports.yahoo.com/donald-trump-declaring-a-national-emergency-due-to-coronavirus-may-prevent-mlb-players-from-getting-paid-155823331.htmlOne of the least important issues I can think of surrounding this situation is whether billionaires will be paying their millionaire employees. I’d rather see the minor leaguers paid if anyone. Maybe all of the owners and all of the players can apply for the hardship $1,000 checks that have been proposed... |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 18, 2020 19:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Mar 18, 2020 19:37:14 GMT -5
If I could be paid the MLB minimum salary for one season, I would consider myself to be wealthy at the end of that year... |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 18, 2020 19:52:29 GMT -5
If I could be paid the MLB minimum salary for one season, I would consider myself to be wealthy at the end of that year... lol I guess its relative. |
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Post by inger on Mar 18, 2020 19:59:48 GMT -5
If I could be paid the MLB minimum salary for one season, I would consider myself to be wealthy at the end of that year... lol I guess its relative. Oh, no sir. None of my relatives makes that much, either... |
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Post by inger on Mar 18, 2020 20:01:12 GMT -5
West Virginia has the fewest diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the USA. That’s proof positive that you can’t catch this from your cousin...
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Post by noetsi on Mar 18, 2020 20:04:27 GMT -5
West Virginia has the fewest diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the USA. That’s proof positive that you can’t catch this from your cousin... bad bad bad joke.
No one knows how many cases there are. There is no testing.
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 18, 2020 21:12:40 GMT -5
Come on, Russ, it wasn’t that bad of a joke. Not Inger’s best, like the coming across the desk one, but not horrible either.
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Post by sierchio on Mar 18, 2020 21:41:26 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty funny
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Post by inger on Mar 18, 2020 22:11:15 GMT -5
It’s okay because I have grandchildren in West Virginia...and a step son...And yes, they are very West-Virginia-like.
He (my step son) is about 350 pounds
She (his girl friend) at LEAST 350 pounds
Her daughter (now claimed as my grand daughter) about 260 pounds age 20
Their son. (Grandson, sort of) Still slender, age six, growing boy.
Have a male neighbor that likes to sit out on the back porch (which faces their home) naked. Cops say he has a right as long as he doesn’t do anything lewd. He came out into the yard jerking his gherkin one day while my sort of daughter in law was mowing the yard. Guess he likes ‘em chubby. Cops said they’d have to have proof. Got pictures, lady? No. Good bye.
We went to visit once. Were told we couldn’t flush toilet paper. Ugh! No more visits...
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 19, 2020 0:23:31 GMT -5
It’s okay because I have grandchildren in West Virginia...and a step son...And yes, they are very West-Virginia-like. He (my step son) is about 350 pounds She (his girl friend) at LEAST 350 pounds Her daughter (now claimed as my grand daughter) about 260 pounds age 20 Their son. (Grandson, sort of) Still slender, age six, growing boy. Have a male neighbor that likes to sit out on the back porch (which faces their home) naked. Cops say he has a right as long as he doesn’t do anything lewd. He came out into the yard jerking his gherkin one day while my sort of daughter in law was mowing the yard. Guess he likes ‘em chubby. Cops said they’d have to have proof. Got pictures, lady? No. Good bye. We went to visit once. Were told we couldn’t flush toilet paper. Ugh! No more visits...  That’s a thousand pound sit-com waiting to be written! |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 19, 2020 0:25:13 GMT -5
It’s okay because I have grandchildren in West Virginia...and a step son...And yes, they are very West-Virginia-like. He (my step son) is about 350 pounds She (his girl friend) at LEAST 350 pounds Her daughter (now claimed as my grand daughter) about 260 pounds age 20 Their son. (Grandson, sort of) Still slender, age six, growing boy. Have a male neighbor that likes to sit out on the back porch (which faces their home) naked. Cops say he has a right as long as he doesn’t do anything lewd. He came out into the yard jerking his gherkin one day while my sort of daughter in law was mowing the yard. Guess he likes ‘em chubby. Cops said they’d have to have proof. Got pictures, lady? No. Good bye. We went to visit once. Were told we couldn’t flush toilet paper. Ugh! No more visits... [img class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/udcwFqPimnXDtjoTmoVL.gif" alt=" "] That’s a thousand pound sit-com waiting to be written! Inger visits his relatives in West Virginia! Comedy gold! |
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Post by inger on Mar 19, 2020 1:07:05 GMT -5
[img src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/udcwFqPimnXDtjoTmoVL.gif" class="smile" alt=" "] That’s a thousand pound sit-com waiting to be written! Inger visits his relatives in West Virginia! Comedy gold! Ahem. Ruthie’s relatives, actually. I have no idea how her son got to be such a big ‘un. He looks like he could crush anyone in sight, but he’s very quiet and mild-mannered. But, yes. They are a hoot. A hoot in the hollers of W. Virginia... |
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Post by sierchio on Mar 19, 2020 7:35:31 GMT -5
I just put West Virginia on my list of places to visit... but definitely not live
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That’s a thousand pound sit-com waiting to be written!