Reply to "Soriano refuses to play"

infielddad10,000+ posts

Bear, How is the Soriano situation anything like Curt Flood, the reserve clause issues and Marvin Miller's efforts to obtain union status, free agency and happening to "fall" into arbitration rights...since they were the suggestion of the owners.
Soriano has the benefits of all those efforts. Went to arbitration and lost...to the tune of $10,000,000 being his salary. He has a contract to play baseball that was traded to Washington. So far as I know, he does not have a contract to play 2nd base.
Would be interested in hearing why this equates with the efforts of Miller/Flood. I think Soriano is the beneficiary of all they did and the issues don't compare.

3/21/069:31 AM

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