Flaherty, a member of the MLBPA's executive subcommittee, feels like he put executive director Tony Clark in a difficult position.
sounded remorseful. Last Monday, the right-hander was part of a group of players who confronted Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The players wanted Clark to replace his second-in-command, Bruce Meyer, with a former MLBPA lawyer, Harry Marino. And the call grew heated.
How did Harry become such a threat to the status quo? When you go around and you have things to say and you talk to certain people, you can influence guys. Our job as players is to inform each and every guy of what’s going on, to try to figure out the right way to go about things and the right way to come together, come to a formulated agreement on things. Once it got to a certain point and things became very pushy, it was evident this thing needs to stop. This has gotten out of hand.
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