[maddog17]

just found this on VeloNews. let the flaming begin on Ball!!!

http://velonews.com/article/86501

 

[4xBoy]

What, the 200 dollar jersey wasn't enough?

 

[sanjuro]

Baden Cooke didn't realize Michael Ball couldn't be trusted? Whose fault is that?

 

[4xBoy]

Baden Cooke didn't realize Michael Ball couldn't be trusted? Whose fault is that?

That's like asking me to make sure no one drinks your beer.irate2:

 

[JRogers]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/jan09/jan14news

Another Rock Racing gem at the bottom of this link. Basically, they eliminated a rider for dubious reasons and then tried to take the bike they gave him. Weak.

 

[SuspectDevice]

6 of the riders are actually in the same position....

 

[ire]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2009/interviews/?id=michael_ball_jan09

"I don't want to put too much into it," Ball said about Cooke, citing the possible litigation. "I don't know him personally. I've had one conversation with him on the phone expressing what we are as a team. We didn't have a contract. A contract takes two people to sign – I didn't agree to it and there was nothing there yet."

Somehow I think that was by design...if he didn't sign then he could, at any point, say the contract wasn't valid

 

[JRogers]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2009/interviews/?id=michael_ball_jan09



Somehow I think that was by design...if he didn't sign then he could, at any point, say the contract wasn't valid

Certainly seems that way. Based on what Cooke says, he got the runaround from Rock while Ball held contracts and didn't sign them so riders would have no recourse- take his crappy offer or leave without compensation.

The most ridiculous thing to me about the whole Rock racing deal is not the apparent swindling aspect (which seems somewhat more recent), but the evident ineptitude of the team that has been present from the beginning (eg about racing licenses, schedules, rosters....

 

[Silver]

Certainly seems that way. Based on what Cooke says, he got the runaround from Rock while Ball held contracts and didn't sign them so riders would have no recourse- take his crappy offer or leave without compensation.

Sure sounds like it.

You have to start wondering when you send a signed contract back to the company that sent it to you, and then they send it off to the "lawyers" or stall it for some other reason.