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HermidaElf:
Coach, I've been listening all postseason, but I don't understand.... what
is "arbitration?" |
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girardi_and_cola: Why arbitration is simple to
understand, Jeremy. |
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girardi_and_cola: Any player who has achieved three
years of major league service time, but fewer than six, is automatically eligible for
salary arbitration if he is not under contract. |
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girardi_and_cola: During this process, the team offers
the player the salary it wants to pay. The player counters with the figure he feels he
deserves. |
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girardi_and_cola: Normally, the two sides continue to
negotiate and settle on a number somewhere between these two figures. |
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girardi_and_cola: If they fail to settle, however, the
two sides present their cases before an independent arbitrator, who ultimately chooses one
figure or the other. |
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girardi_and_cola: That number becomes the player’s
salary for the following season! |
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HermidaElf:
oh, uh, okay
I guess |
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nate:
bump |
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HermidaElf:
yeah can somebody explain arbitration to me please |
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MeTrain:
what you needs ta know young pat a wand |
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HermidaElf:
I just don't understand it. |
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MeTrain:
is when ya brang dolla bills an himey thank you worf so an so, so you fine
a place up in tha middle an daince |
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HermidaElf:
oh, okay! |
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MeTrain:
you a piece a meat boyo like a side a beef or flank stake. side a
hinds 57 up on ya butt |
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HermidaElf:
So how do the Marlins avoid losing you to arbitration? |
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MeTrain:
by makin a mansion outta fo'hunned dollar bills an airliften that bia over
top a wherever d-train decide he wanna sit |
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girardi_and_cola: Yeah, basically. |
