Baseball owners shill for scrubbie

[rpannier]

I found this on the faux news (hack! ahem) website:
More than a dozen current and former owners and family members are among the president's top re-election fund-raisers, an Associated Press review found. Seven are Bush "Rangers," (search) each raising at least $200,000, and six are "Pioneers" (search) who have brought in $100,000 or more.

Those include $2,000 contributions from owners George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees, Fred Wilpon of the New York Mets, Carl Pohlad of the Minnesota Twins, Peter Magowan of the San Francisco Giants and Michael Ilitch of the Detroit Tigers.

Bush also has picked up contributions from players and coaches -- including a manager he once fired. Bobby Valentine, axed by Bush as manager of the Texas Rangers (search) in 1992, gave the president the maximum $4,000 this year. Valentine said he's not surprised Bush has support from baseball owners

For example, FEC reports show, Bush received $2,000 contributions from Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro, who played for the Rangers when Bush was an owner, and from New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in the game.

No wonder I stopped watching the game.
Buncha Fascists

[roguevalley]

1. Boston and the Padres give to dems. :) Some are okay.

[Braden]

2. John Henry declared himself a lefty on the radio pre game

Before the DNC. When the Sox and Yankees played the park was overflowing with Dem. Luminaries, the Red Sox went to great lengths to accomodate.

The rest of the league and just about every player votes republican because in addition to making $125,000 per game, they feel that thier tax burden is too great.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Not to make fun but...

Well ok maybe it is to make fun. Palmeiro is in his thirties, a pro athlete and he needs Viagra? The fact that he is doing endorsements for that stuff is enough to tell me that he doesn't think too much about what he is doing. Now I have nothing against ballplayers(or anyone else) picking up a few extra dollars, but endorsing Viagra when a man is 30 something and a pro athlete to boot? C'mon Palmeiro, think. And then contributing to the bush campaign makes it worse.

[Zynx]

4. My hatred of the Yankees is sealed. Steinbrenner and A-Rod are Repugs.