I was always told that I shouldn't speak poorly about former employees. It doesn't reflect well on you for your present employees. Obviously nobody ever told Scott Spiezio that. Maybe I should create a blog called Sucky Sucky Spiezio.
From the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rogers:
Spiezio told Weaver not to sign with M's
Phil Rogers Chicago Tribune
The Cardinals still are trying to figure out why Jeff Weaver
turned down their offers to sign a one-year deal with Seattle.
Manager Tony La Russa badly wanted Weaver back and stopped just short of
accusing agent Scott Boras of misleading the right-hander about St. Louis'
interest in keeping him.
"If what he had done here meant someone gave him a contract like what
Jeff (Suppan) got, (four years, $42 million with Milwaukee), or what Jason
(Marquis) got (three years, $21 million with the Cubs), and we weren't in a
position to do that, I could understand," La Russa said.
"But to go for one
year, I don't understand. ... But in the end, I'm not positive I can speculate
as to what Scott was telling him about what we were saying. That certainly
wasn't helpful."
Scott Spiezio, one of Weaver's Cardinals teammates last year, told the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch he had advised Weaver against going to Seattle. Spiezio
had a miserable time playing for the Mariners in 2004-05, losing both his
batting stroke and his affinity for all things Seattle.
"Yeah, I'm very surprised because I told him not to go there," Spiezio
said. "I flat-out told him he was going to hate it. I don't know what he was
thinking. Based on my experience, he will hate it. ... Part of the whole deal
(in St. Louis), we have the fans behind us, we have a front office that wants to
win and teammates who play hard and are team players. "None of the above
are over there."
But the Cardinals, according to Boras, didn't offer as big a deal as
the Mariners, whose one-year deal was $8.25 guaranteed with a chance to make $1
million in incentives.
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