Gammons: MLB threatens to take All-Star Game from KC

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I can't read it(ESPN Insider), but a summary I've read says Gammons is reporting that MLB is threatening to take away the All-Star Game from Kansas City if they don't withdraw their offers to 2009 draftees Aaron Crow and Chris Dwyer, because they are (apparently significantly) over slot. If that's true, that is a pretty disgusting move on MLB's part.

[Guest]

I hope the Royals keep their offers out. The slot system is so dumb; I want to see Selig do something dumb like that.

[UMFan83]

That's shady as hell. I hope this blows up and Selig and co. get what they deserve.

[bcl412]

I don't understand a lot of the way MLB's transactions system works. What does any of this mean (aside from KC losing the All Star Game. I get that part?)

[javy knows my name]

If "over slot" meant anything besides "a price that Selig thinks is too high for player A," then, well...this would still be stupid.

[Guest]

The thing is, stunts like this will freak the owner out and they'll make a decision they'd otherwise have let the GM make. There were rumors that MLB tried to limit the Cubs overslot maneuvers by threatening the impending sale.

[Guest]

Why doesn't he do something about the terrible inequities in the system that allow the Yankees, Red Sox, LAA, and other "big market" teams to spend as much as they want for 16 year olds in the DR?

 

Baseball is ran by a collection of people I don't much care for.

[Garwilly]

I think that Selig has done many great things for the game and generally gets an unfair rap. This though, is absolutely absurd if true.

[Derwood]

Isn't this some sort of collusion? Where in the MLB rules and by-laws does it give the Commissioner's Office the power to mandate player salaries?

[mjohnson71]

Having the All-Star Game in Kansas City will be boring. The city is small and Kaufman is in the middle of a huge parking lot with a couple of mid-range motels/hotels along with some chain restaurants the only things nearby. They're going to have to do one hell of a shuttle system if the Power & Light District and Country Club Plaza are going to be used.

 

Maybe they realized this and are trying to find a better city to place it at.

[Guest]

So Selig is holding the All Star Game hostage until he gets what he wants?

 

Sounds rather criminal.