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January 14, 2002 The Week in QuotesDecember 17, 2001-January 13, 2002DIGGING A HOLE
"There was no need to. It was paid."
"There are requirements that loans between clubs get approved. This was
short term. There was no owners' meeting in the interim."
"It depends on the circumstances. I am fully aware of the rules."
"No club or owner, stockholder, officer, director or employee (including
manager or player) of a club shall, directly or indirectly, loan money to or
become surety or guarantor for any club, officer, employee or umpire of its,
his of her league, unless all facts of the transaction shall first have been
fully disclosed to all other clubs in that league and also to the
commissioner, and the transaction has been approved by them."
"I noticed that they both seemed to have forgotten about the $3 million.
It's hard to believe that any businessman would forget about $3 million."
"'We have a company that does that.'"
"[...] the lawyers then took over and that was the end of the conversation."
IT'S NOT THAT DEEP
"No. We are in the business of lending money. Why the hell would it be a
conflict? Every loan stands on its feet."
"Bud was not in favor of contraction. Number one, he was talked into it.
Number two, the clubs voted 28 to 2 [for contraction]. Number three, the
teams haven't been selected [for contraction]. There has been no vote on the
teams."
"I have no concerns about the integrity of Bud Selig. I think he's a man of
first-rate principle and character."
"It's such a treacherous thing. It would raise in my mind all sorts of
concerns."
"We have a lot of rules we don't necessarily enforce all the time. What is
the big deal? It was for a short time, 45 or 60 days. Everybody would have
voted for it had it come up. To me, it's a like a cop sees a guy going 62 in
a 55 zone. You let him go. What's the harm?"
"It's really horrifying. This is a violation of baseball rules by an owner
who is also the commissioner."
WE'RE ALSO DIGGING BACK-UP HOLES
"It was on the private business side. It was arm's length. With an abundance
of caution, I cleared it with the commissioner's office. The Colorado
Rockies aren't doing any business with Mr. Pohlad. It didn't have anything
to do with contraction and it didn't have anything to do with the Minnesota
Twins. Mr Pohlad is in that business. He's a banker."
"This is a loan we certainly knew about. It was a loan between individuals.
None of the Rockies' assets are at all involved."
"I don't recall. It didn't have any reason to be. It was only out of an
abundance of precaution that I talked to the commissioner."
RICH ALMOST GET RICHER
"The city can recoup its investment and make money every time."
"We were happy to be able to do this for New York."
"At the moment, everybody understands that given that the lack of housing,
given the lack of school space, given the deficit in the operating budget,
it is just not practical this year to go and build stadiums."
DOOMED TO REPEAT IT
"What we have as a master plan was to see if we could possibly acquire a No.
1 or No. 2 starter, a fourth-place hitter, and a closer. Of which, all three
of those positions are essential--especially the latter one."
"I'm going to try to focus more on the positive. [...] For some reason when
last season started, we all felt uncomfortable. Part of that feeling was due
to expectations. And as those losses piled up, we started getting tighter
and tighter. "
"I think he's going to be a much better manager this year than he's been in
the past simply because he's got more experience."
"How could you say I was a bigger bust than Todd Hundley?"
"It's the hope and faith that the fans need to have that their team can
successfully compete. Why can't the fans in a Pittsburgh or a Cincinnati or
a Kansas City or a Milwaukee have that hope and faith? Let the quality of
management take over as opposed to just the amount of money."
THE REST
"I don't want an involuntary partnership with the public. I want people
spending money in the house who want to spend money in the house. I don't
want to confiscate somebody's tax money who isn't a baseball fan and who
thinks the money should be spent on education or roads or bridges."
"There's not much that could top this. Only world peace and hopefully that
will be accomplished soon."
"When looking at Tino's credentials, we felt that he was the perfect guy to
not only help offset the loss of McGwire, but he'll also be someone who will
lend valuable leadership to our ballclub."
"We've got a winner that's been added to the St. Louis Cardinals."
"I saw Andre Dawson. And let me tell you something. There were only two
players in my lifetime whose teammates held them in awe. One was Mickey
Mantle. The other was Andre Dawson. If you were around, if you saw them
play, you know that. But the numbers don't tell you that."
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