Derek Jeter reportedly requests firing of 4 Marlins luminaries
September 23, 2017 by admin
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Prospective Miami Marlins boss Derek Jeter has asked the outgoing president of the team to fire four baseball luminaries who serve as special assistants, the Miami Herald has reported, citing two Major League Baseball sources.
According to the Friday report, Jeter, who stands to be in charge of the business and baseball operations of the Marlins when the sale of the team is finalized, asked David Samson to dismiss Hall of Famers Andre Dawson and Tony Perez, as well as Jeff Conine, the former outfielder known as “Mr. Marlin,” and 2003 World Series-winning manager Jack McKeon.
Jeter, after first telling Samson he wouldn’t be retained — which was already presumed — then asked him to inform the four of the moves, because Jeter didn’t want to do it, the Herald reported.
MLB hopes to approve Marlins sale before Nov.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said no date has been set but hopes to have the pending sale of the Marlins finalized before the next scheduled owners meeting on Nov. 15-16 at Orlando, Florida.
Jeter’s longtime agent, Casey Close, did not immediately respond to a text sent by ESPN seeking comment Friday night.
Dawson and Perez have long held positions as special assistants — Dawson since 2000 and Perez since 1993, the team’s first season. Conine has served as a special assistant since 2008.
McKeon’s recent duties have included scouting the Marlins’ minor league teams. He has been a special assistant since 2005.
“Sure, I’m sad,” McKeon told the newspaper after discussing Jeter’s wishes with Samson. “No question you’re sad. I’m disappointed, but you understand. A new regime is coming in and they want their new people in there. You can’t fault them with that.”
MLB is expected to hold a special meeting before November to vote on approving the sale of the Marlins to a group that includes Jeter and is headed by venture capitalist Bruce Sherman.
The next scheduled owners meeting is Nov. 15-16 in Orlando, Florida. Commissioner Rob Manfred has said the special meeting likely would be held as a telephone conference call.
Samson said on Aug. 12 that a signed $1.2 billion agreement had been submitted to MLB.
A 14-time All-Star shortstop, Jeter would be a limited partner in the group and in charge of the business and baseball operations, according to Samson.
At least 75 percent of major league clubs must approve any franchise sale. Jeffrey Loria has owned the team since 2002.
Information from ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick and The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Sanders praises McCain’s ‘courage’ on GOP health care bill
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“No Republican should vote for this disastrous bill,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said while addressing a health care rally at the 2017 Convention of the California Nurses Association on Sept. 22 in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO — Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a campaign-style event before thousands here, praised Sen. John McCain on Friday for opposing what Sanders called the Republican Party’s “horrific” Graham-Cassidy health care bill, but he urged his backers not to let down their guard against the GOP’s persistent efforts to repeal Obamacare.
“Thank you, John McCain,’’ Sanders told the cheering rally sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, which is backing his Medicare for All legislation in Congress. Sanders (I-Vt.) delivered the “good news” that McCain (R-Ariz.), just hours before, had announced that without a proper hearing and detailed analysis of the bill’s costs, he could not “in good conscience” back Graham-Cassidy. The bill had been expected to come to the floor of the Senate next week. Sanders lauded McCain for showing the courage and “conscience” that he said the Republican leadership has lacked.
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But even with McCain’s opposition, viewed as a potentially lethal blow to the bill, “our struggle on this legislation is not over — and our job is to continue to make sure that the Republicans do not get the 50 votes they need, which, plus the vice president’s vote, will give them a victory,’’ Sanders said.
“So please, I beg of you, get the word out,’’ Sanders told the crowd. “No Republican should vote for this disastrous bill, and if they do, they will pay a very heavy political price for that.”
Sanders spoke before a sea of signs declaring “It’s Time to Act! Medicare for All!’’ — a sentiment echoed on thousands of red T-shirts worn by nurses in the 85,000-member union who had invited him to speak at their annual convention here. The public rally in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens echoed the look and themes of his 2016 presidential campaign at times, as a fired-up Sanders argued against a litany of what he said were abuses by the Trump administration.
Calling it a “pivotal moment in American history” he said, “We have got to beat back the reactionary agenda of the Trump administration,’’adding that its goals were “designed to benefit the billionaire class and to ignore the needs of the 99 percent.”
“We’re going to defeat this disastrous GOP bill — and then we go on to pass Medicare for All,’’ he said to chants of “Bernie! Bernie!” and “Run, Bernie, Run!”
“Our message to the Trump administration is, you are not going to divide us up, we are going to stand together, and we are going to defeat you,’’ he said.
Sanders’ San Francisco appearance was the focus of some concern by Democrats worried that the senator’s role as the lead proponent of a single-payer health care system — and as the star of a major rally to push the concept — could draw attention away from what many considered a critical and more immediate threat from the Obamacare repeal bill, which analysts said could to take away health care from millions.
In an earlier town hall-style meeting in San Francisco, Sanders said his priorities were clear.
“We have an immediate crisis,” he said. “We have to do everything we can in the next several weeks to defeat this horrific Republican proposal.”
Democrats in support of a Medicare for All system, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, strongly defended Sanders’ appearance Friday. He said the senator — and proponents of single-payer health care — were thoroughly capable of managing two major political points simultaneously.
“This whole idea that we can only do one thing at a time is insulting, not just absurd,’’ Newsom said. He defended Sanders as not interested solely in “playing defense,’’ and said he should be praised for trying to “advance a principle that’s been advanced around the world successfully.’’
Democrats “need an offensive strategy,’’ Newsom said. “We can do both.”
Chuck Idelson, spokesman for the nurses union, agreed, insisting, “No member of the Senate or House has done more across the country to oppose the mean-spirited, draconian bills obsessively pushed by the House and Senate this year than Senator Bernie Sanders.”
He said that “instead of parroting the attacks on Senator Sanders by the GOP and corporate wing of the Democratic Party,” critics should note that Sanders is scheduled to debate both Republican sponsors of the repeal bill on CNN Monday night, and has traveled to red states around the country to get out the message about what he called the Republican Party’s damaging efforts to replace Obamacare.