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hyde325
Sandoval woke up one day and he couldn’t lift his arm above his stomach? Did he try lifting his stomach off his arm first?
#YeahYeahFatJoke
#YeahYeahHashtagJoke
#Yawn
marv152
that’s funny
rmullig2
Why don’t they go get insurance on Sandoval now? Doesn’t Obamacare make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions?
staypuft
I don’t think this is about medical insurance, it’s about insurance on his contract. If there was insurance on his contract, the sox may have been able to recoup some of the money they owed him this year. Instead, the Red Sox will being paying all of the money that is owed to him.
I think the Orioles had a situation way back where they actually recouped more than half of the money paid to Albert Belle.
dorfmac
Yeah – a lot of teams have insurance on contracts. The Albert Belle situation is a great example. Plenty of my fellow O’s fans point to that deal as a disaster, but he played at an all-star level when healthy, and insurance covered a good chunk of his salary when he wasn’t. The Belle hatred here in Bmore is almost as absurd as the way some fans talk poorly about Mussina.
costergaard2
Albert Belle was fantasy baseball gold then. In order to get the insurance, the Orioles had to keep him on the 40, which they did for several years. My league had a 5 man DL, so I always picked him up
whyhayzee
The insurance is not health insurance. It’s (typically) through Lloyds of London and it’s on the salary in case of an injury to the player. It has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.
jmgara
“He’s not saying at the moment”????
Wow, glad we didn’t re-sign him.