From: ballm@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Calder: Lindros & more
Date: 7 Nov 92 17:21:41 -0700
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Organization: Malaspina College

In article <1992Nov5.030905.12165@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>, cs902159@ariel.yorku.ca (DAVID A LISOGURSKI) writes:
> In article <1992Nov4.132519.1016@mala.bc.ca> ballm@mala.bc.ca writes:
>>Listen up oh biased & mudslinging one.
>>This is what I base that argument on : It was Lindros who decided not to play
>>in " his " rookie year, he was not sent to the minors and thereby did not play
>>the minimum # of games to qualify for his rookie status.
>>
>>By this I feel he disqualified himself this year as a rookie year.
>>
> 
> OK, have I got your reasons straight?
> Joe Juneau should be disqualified, since he could have played a long time
> ago too?
> 
> What about Quebec's top pick this year (Warriner) who was sent down
> because he couldn't come to an agreement over a contract.  This year
> should have been his rookie year.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> (no mudslinging, please)
> 
> --Dave
-- 

  What were Joe Juneau's reasons for not playing?
  If they were continuing play for his country, or finishing junior status,
then these are reasonable reasons.

  But how many players refuse to even go to the club that drafts them.

  As for a player who does not come to terms, but atleast goes to the teams
minor league team is making an effort to play for that team.

  Lindros just refused to play, to me that was his choice to void his rookie
year.  

BTW  I think the draft is both immoral and should be made illegal, BUT the
system is in place and should be observed until it is banned.

  I guess the average fan has to fight back against the overpayed sports stars,
who do something they enjoy and should be thankful that they can find
employment.

  I hope all the big TV contracts collapse and force the only big income for
sports franchises to be the fans who go to the game. This would give the fan a
chance to say STUFF the big contracts, I am not paying 50 bucks + to go see a
bunch of overpayed babies playing only as well as they have to to make the play
offs. 

mick



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Mick Ball                             Soccer   : Tottenham Hotspur,Portsmouth
                                      Hockey   : Edmonton Oilers 
e-mail BallM@mala.bc.ca               CFL      : Edmonton Eskimos
                                      Baseball : Toronto Blue Jays
                                      Football : San Francisco 49'ers

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