{"id":112,"date":"2005-02-11T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=112"},"modified":"2005-02-11T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T07:33:19","slug":"guaranted-language-giambis-deal-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/guaranted-language-giambis-deal-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"guaranted language: Giambi’s deal with the devil"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports that the Yankees were so desperate to sign Jason Giambi<\/a> to a contract that they deleted references to steroids in the guarantee language of the contract at Giambi’s request. The guarantee language in a baseball contract says things such as, “we can terminate you if you are a bad citizen or you jump out of airplanes or try to strangle your coach.” The Colorado Rockies<\/a> terminated Denny Neagle’s<\/a> 19 million dollar contract after police arrested him for solicitating a prostitute. Neagles’ grievance against termination will be held in April.<\/p>\n

The article shows an image of Giambi wearing a suit designed to make him look as big as possible. Do baseball uniforms come with padded shoulders I wonder?<\/p>\n

The Yankees<\/a> have the same problem as major league baseball, and the players who took steroids. They made a deal with the devil. The players made a deal with the devil because they are likely to suffer long term health problems from taking the steroids. The Yankees made a deal with the devil and now they are now strapped with a 120 million dollar contract for a questionable player. Baseball made a deal with the devil by turning a blind eye to steroid use so they could reap benefits from the season home run record. Now they will likely have a new record for career home runs set by an admitted steroid user: Barry Bonds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the way, doesn’t a contract have to be reviewed by the league before it is signed? O.k., so steroids were not illegal in Major League Baseball<\/a> when Giambi did them. But they were according to the government else there would be no Balco investigation<\/a>. And clearly steroids were included in the guarantee language otherwise there was no need to delete them.<\/p>\n

It’s not just the players who have totally lost face. The teams themselves and the league look just as bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports that the Yankees were so desperate to sign Jason Giambi to a contract that they deleted references to steroids in the guarantee language of the contract at Giambi’s request. The guarantee language in a baseball contract says things such as, “we can terminate you if you are a bad citizen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}