Layoffs at MLB.com claim a few

[cranberry]

Glad to see not everyone working for MLB is suffering:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/38803467.html

****ing disgusting.

For commissioning a kids game! No wonder ticket prices are so high!

 

[Drip]

Would you buy a car from Bud?

 

[toolsofignorance]

Man, that sucks. Seems like no job is sacred anymore. Except for, you know, the big boys up at the top of the chain.

Does make you scratch your head to see they're advertising a bunch of reporter jobs on Monster.com, though. I'm guessing the pay will be a lot steeper than what those guys were making.

 

[Kid Presentable]

This is really ****ing disgusting.

They are PRINTING money at mlb.com. PRINTING IT. It's not like they're operating a dying medium. MLB.com is profitable a zillion times over. Yet these rotten bastards are STILL cutting people and STILL cutting space. It's the ****ing Internet! There's no space restrictions! Yet there are fewer and fewer stories every year.

The end game is interns doing everything and the place just existing to sell T-shirts. Book it.

A lot of good people lost their jobs there. **** you, mlb.com.

Maybe this means people will start turning to newspapers for their baseball news.

 

[Fredrick]

If MLB hires free interns, teams should not credential them. I mean what the ****? Not paying interns? I heard that was the rumor for their website this summer. Free help.

 

[accguy]

Um Fredrick,

Why would the teams not credential them? They're working for MLB. Of course they would credential them.

 

[BYH]

Glad to see not everyone working for MLB is suffering:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/38803467.html

****ing disgusting.

I'd pay good money to the reporter who asks Bud why he can cut jobs and wail about the economy while giving himself a 22% raise. I guess it's more expensive than I figured buying hot dogs down on the corner.

Piece of ****.

 

[Gold]

I think people are getting laid off not because what is happening directly this week or this month, but what people are afraid of three months from now or six months from now.

 

[JakeandElwood]

I think people are getting laid off not because what is happening directly this week or this month, but what people are afraid of three months from now or six months from now.

Bud can't be that scared if he's giving himself that kind of raise.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Exactly. A pay freeze wouldn't hurt him a bit. So why he doesn't pass on any raise just to emphasize the potential gravity of the situation?

If you're going to lay off grunts who are making $25K, have the good grace to not do something at the other end of the scale that rubs it in their faces.

Selig is an asshole.

 

[Gutter]

Bud asserts that baseball's economic system needs tinkering:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/38894984.html

 

[clutchcargo]

Cripes, Selig gets 18 million??? Does that count against the Yankees payroll perchance?

No wonder Manny is still holding out.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

So, is this ad a joke? There are a lot of jobs listed. Are they all going to interns, and do they pay anything? Does anyone know? Everyone in baseball I've spoken with just laughs when I mention this ad.

http://jobsearch.mlb.careers.monster.com/?partnerId=ed-2183226-70483990&source=ed-2183226-70483990

 

[BYH]

Yes. A complete joke. Like the head honchos at mlb.com.

Also, mlb.com is slashing its travel budget something fierce. Get used to lots of road stories written from the beat writer's couch. Also, BUY A T-SHIRT!!!!

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

That ad is a joke this year. Was last year. And the year before, too.

It's part of a partnership/sponsorship deal between the two.

Monster can say "Look! MLB.com uses us to hire! You should, too!"

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Yes. A complete joke. Like the head honchos at mlb.com.

Also, mlb.com is slashing its travel budget something fierce. Get used to lots of road stories written from the beat writer's couch. Also, BUY A T-SHIRT!!!!

I could go for a t-shirt. I have $22 that's burning a hole in my pocket.

 

[BB Bobcat]

That ad is a joke this year. Was last year. And the year before, too.

It's part of a partnership/sponsorship deal between the two.

Monster can say "Look! MLB.com uses us to hire! You should, too!"

That's sick. I can't tell you how many people have mentioned to me "Hey, MLB.com is hiring" because of this ad, even though everyone I know who works there tells me they are not.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Same here.

 

[slappy4428]

Yes. A complete joke. Like the head honchos at mlb.com.

Also, mlb.com is slashing its travel budget something fierce. Get used to lots of road stories written from the beat writer's couch. Also, BUY A T-SHIRT!!!!

I can't wait.