05/31: Yanks Only Team to Vote Against World Cup
Posted by: Patrick
Imagine 'World' without Yankees:
Sure, a World Cup seems "neat", but it is understandable. An opportunity for people to take a crack at the Yankees. There is a definitely risk, though. As there is with the NBA players in the Olympics, etc. I'm not sure what I want to see. But, if there is a World Cup, it wouldn't really be complete without Yankee players. If it happens, and all other teams send their players, I imagine Yankee players will end up going.
Via Pride of the Yankees.
The Yankees are loaded with players who could make the rosters of various nation's teams in next year's World Baseball Classic. The question is whether the Yankees will allow any of them to play.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman confirmed yesterday his team was the only one to oppose the World Baseball Classic -- baseball's proposed version of a World Cup, featuring teams from 16 countries -- when it came up for a vote earlier this month.
"We did vote against it, yes," Cashman said. "It was 29 to 1."
Whether that means that players such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield, Randy Johnson, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Chien-Ming Wang and Hideki Matsui would be permitted to play for their respective countries next March -- if they wanted to -- remains to be seen.
"That's for another day," Cashman said.
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The Yankees don't want their players, who are among the highest-paid in the game, getting injured in an international competition only weeks before the start of the season and be unable to play for them once the regular season began.
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A commissioner's office representative said yesterday that teams would not be able to dictate whether their players would be able to participate -- that would be "up to the players themselves." But if the Yankees made it clear they didn't want their players participating, it's unlikely a player would go against those wishes.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman confirmed yesterday his team was the only one to oppose the World Baseball Classic -- baseball's proposed version of a World Cup, featuring teams from 16 countries -- when it came up for a vote earlier this month.
"We did vote against it, yes," Cashman said. "It was 29 to 1."
Whether that means that players such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield, Randy Johnson, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Chien-Ming Wang and Hideki Matsui would be permitted to play for their respective countries next March -- if they wanted to -- remains to be seen.
"That's for another day," Cashman said.
...
The Yankees don't want their players, who are among the highest-paid in the game, getting injured in an international competition only weeks before the start of the season and be unable to play for them once the regular season began.
...
A commissioner's office representative said yesterday that teams would not be able to dictate whether their players would be able to participate -- that would be "up to the players themselves." But if the Yankees made it clear they didn't want their players participating, it's unlikely a player would go against those wishes.
Sure, a World Cup seems "neat", but it is understandable. An opportunity for people to take a crack at the Yankees. There is a definitely risk, though. As there is with the NBA players in the Olympics, etc. I'm not sure what I want to see. But, if there is a World Cup, it wouldn't really be complete without Yankee players. If it happens, and all other teams send their players, I imagine Yankee players will end up going.
Via Pride of the Yankees.
