THE SOLUTION? BIGGER CONTRACTS?

It is just mind-boggling how the game of baseball is being played at the major league level these days! With the money being spent on each player for salary, equipment and travel expenses, clubhouse buffets, maintenance of the ball field and uniforms, health insurance, etc., you would think that a ballplayer would give his all?

Then along comes Jimmy Rollins. Well he comes casually if at all, in his slow poke manner that he calls hustle. I’ve seen lack of desire in the work place, but not for $11,000,000 for 2012, 2013, and 2014! The Philadelphia Phillies are paying him $86,614 per game, about $19,489 per at bat, and yet he cannot hustle!

To me, if I am being paid anything over the minimum wage, I will do my job because that is what I am being paid for. If it is under the minimum wage, then I will work even harder because I know I need that job desperately.

“Charlie Hustle” Pete Rose is being kept out of the Hall of Fame, because he is accused of betting on baseball and his team. He made a terrible mistake, but he bet on his team to win, never threw a game either as a manager or player. It is in Pete Rose’s nature to bet. Pete Rose hustled out to the field and on the field and even off the field because he loved the game so much, knew how lucky he was to play the game, and gave it everything he had, for every game, every at bat, and every grounder.

Jimmy Rollins should be ashamed of his blatant breach of contract. He has been reprehended more than once for that very same crime. To do it twice in one inning, that is the worst thing a player could do, and should be thrown off the team and his contract voided.

First to pop up and not hustle down the baseline is shameful enough, then in the same inning, not pay attention to where he is and get tagged out is enough to fire him.

Too damned much money given to these guys for what it is worth. $11,000,000 indeed, you could bring up 11 players from Triple A ball and one of them in gratitude would do as well as Rollins, and maybe at least half of them, all at $1,000,000 each. Stop the insanity of bloated salaries, and make the game affordable for the ordinary guy, once again.

That’s all I wrote, folks!