Supreme Court Nominee Ended Baseball’s Strike
Baseball, Legal May 26th. 2009, 4:30pm
Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to succeed David Souter as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in 1995, she was the woman who saved baseball before Cal Ripken and Mark McGwire’s dingers got around to it.
Sotomayor was the U.S. District Court Judge in 1995 that issued an injunction to stop MLB from imposing a new collective bargaining agreement and beginning the season with replacement players.
Her decision reinstated the previous collective bargaining agreement. The season began a month later with real major leaguers.
Even if we don’t watch baseball as much, we care about its sanctity more than the NFL. It took a decade steroid-fueled excitement to assuage the scares of the 1994 strike. It may have been irreparable had replacement players been allowed to take the field.
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:33 PM
so what you are saying is that this is barry’s first step at getting us a college football playoff?
May 26th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
BARACK OBAMA MUTHFUCKA!
May 26th, 2009 at 4:36 PM
if she saved baseball does that mean she’s on steroids?
May 26th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
So did she really save baseball, or did she “Al Gore” save baseball, a-la the Internet?
May 26th, 2009 at 4:39 PM
fugly
May 26th, 2009 at 4:43 PM
and she also cured aids. the cure has not made it to cleveland…yet.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:44 PM
mikenyc in 5..4..3..2..1
May 26th, 2009 at 4:48 PM
I wonder if she’d be any worse than Doris Burke is at announcing/sideline reporting.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Should of used her for the roundup pic.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Should of used her for the roundup pic.
I always thought Ruth Bader Ginsberg was more likely Roundup material
May 26th, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Don’t even get me started.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
I’d hit it, and then I’d make an appeal to hit it again.
/I wouldn’t, though.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Magglio Ordonez is going to be on the Supreme Court?
May 26th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
WOw just wow. That is great!
May 26th, 2009 at 5:25 PM
For the record, that was less a comment about her (she’s actually normal-looking) than about Maggs–he’s a weird looking mfer.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
She also ruled against Maurice Clarett and the NFL. Does that mean she saved the NFL also and/or hated tOSU, comrade Duffy?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/05/26/mail/index.html
May 26th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
But when she agreed with republicans 95% of the time!
/Dem talking point’d
//She is going to be ok, not the left wing zealot Reps talk about but not the moderate the Dems are talking up.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:04 PM
i heard it through the grapevine that smokey robinson is on the supreme court now.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
That Clarett ruling was garbage. Essentially, the players agreed to a age-restriction in the CBA when the CBA actually contains no such language.
I’ve been considering law school just so I could argue an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL.