TOO MUCH MONEY

Recently I read where Alex Rodriquez who is making about $30,000,000 a year in salary to play for the New York Yankees, did something unusual. During a playoff game against the Detroit Tigers, a game the Yankees lost, one in which A-rod was yanked from the lineup because he can’t hit a baseball anymore, tried to hit on a few babes in the stands!

Here is a man who has never hit in the post-season except in 2009, who should be leading his team and being a leader, is instead not even involved in watching and urging his teammates on!

Mr. Rodriquez is the highest paid player in Major League history, and that is where his head is! If I were a Yankee fan I would really be angry. As a baseball fan I am angry, because of these obscene salaries that that jackass Steinbrenner started paying back in the ‘70’s, no one can afford to go to a ballgame any more. This insane competition with the owners of each club to sign some freak of nature that can pitch or hit a baseball better than most, has closed the door for young fathers to take their child to a ballgame across the land because he can’t afford to.

I would think it is time for the owner’s to have some kind of agreement to limit the amount of money they will offer any player to play the game. I know the union’s will cry “collusion” but let them go to hell, and save the game of baseball and make it affordable for everyone.

No one is worth more than a million in U.S. Dollars to play for about 250 days a year! This is a game that once held a lot of currency in morality and old-fashioned American idealism. Greed has thrown it all away. Kids can no longer go to the ballpark to spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon at a ballpark in the sunshine, or have Dad there to explain the game, or have the very thrill I had once when I entered the big arena in Brooklyn so many years ago for the first time!

Guys like A-rod have too much money, they lose interest in what they are doing, they defeat the purpose of the money when that happens. I hope all the owners go broke and the players lose their source of obscene income, and they start over.

Starting over would be a good idea, no more that money from TV that seems to control the game so that a kid on the East Coast can’t stay up to watch the World Series because it may be played on the West Coast at such a late hour. If you live in Boston, or New York or even Philadelphia, and your team is playing in LA or San Francisco, the game isn’t over until well after midnight because of the network scheduling it for maximum profit.