I REST MY CASE

Cabrera

The recent revelations about Melky Cabrera, and my blog of a few days ago about doping seem to reinforce my feeling that ballplayers are being compensated way too much money. The doping is not for better stats, but for more money.

That a player can hire someone to create a web site and make up a phony drug and expect to get away with it boggles the mind. This is a great ruse to use to try to fool the system, be arrogant enough to think you can do this without repercussions and the stupidity to think that no one will question you after you are caught.

Playing baseball used to be n honor, and I can’t help thinking that it is no longer a sport, but indeed a business. The players of today do not love the game: they are in it for the money and the money only. Not even glory takes a side anymore. The days of Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron are forever gone. The idea of displaying your skills in a competitive fashion where everyone is natural is no longer evident.  Today’s players are desperate, money hungry and self centered. There is no longer the concept of team employed anywhere. But when did this all change.

Flood

There is one name I can point to that changed forever the face of baseball, ruining it and making it a business, and no matter how hard you can argue against this the truth still stares you in the face. The name of Curt Flood and the baseball union have destroyed the game. The idea of free agency has made baseball what it is, a business and nothing more or less.

Since a player can shop himself around, he prepares for it with steroids to boost his bargaining power, and once he lands that contract, seems to somehow lose his ability to play the game at the level he promised. Too many teams are locked into long term extravagant contracts that leave the ballplayer rich, the owner stuck and the fan paying for the whole mess in his ticket.

What normal kid can go to the ballpark on a Saturday to watch their local team on a major league level? That used to be the case, that was baseball as I knew it. No kid: unless he steals it or his parents have plenty of money can go off and watch his team play. Where are the cheap seats in ballparks for the kids to purchase a ticket and watch their hero play?

And what impact on the integrity of the game has drugs and or steroids on the record books? How honest since the 1970’s are the records? How many records are tainted with steroid use by these greedy bums, who without baseball would be homeless cretins living on the dole?

Thank you Curt Flood. You have singlehandedly ruined the game, you have enlisted the likes of Marvin Miller and tied the hands of baseball, and you have created muscle bound imbeciles who don’t know how good they had it until the morons are caught, where they then boldly lie about it.

But the dopers that allow themselves the steroid use and also contributed, as did the trainers and agents who all profit from the ugliness.

If there is one group that has helped mightily to destroy the game it is the agents. They stand to gain on the backs of these sheep that follow each other to destruction based on a percentage of the contracts they negotiate.

Boras

Baseball should throw out the unions, the owners and the agents like Scott Boras, along with the stupid players and start over again. Make it day one, who knows, maybe a fan hungry for the game to come back will support it.

That’s all I wrote, folks!