… love of the game …

This is the time of the year – late autumn and baseball free agency has begun – so it’s time for the dopes and morons who think they know baseball to start harping that:

players today only play for the money and not the “love of the game”

First off, it’s not a game, it’s a business. Just like the one that laid you off because they can replace your sign-holding dumbass with a bucket of sand. Major League Baseball is a multi-billion dollar global business and the product is a game/entertainment called baseball. The only reason your limited minded brain thinks Stan Musial played for the love of the game and Albert Pujols doesn’t is that Stan played before free agency and therefore had to take whatever money the Cardinals wanted to pay him or he didn’t play for anyone. You flip Stan to today and AP back to the 1940’s and Stan would be making $30 Million a year and everyone would think he is a greedy bastard and AP would get kicked out because he’s not white.
And remember, you watch baseball because YOU love it, they play it because although they might like it and might even love it, they play it because they get paid to play it.

We also have:

baseball players make too much money and aren’t worth what they get paid, what about schoolteachers and cops, they don’t make hardly any money

First off, unless you pay yourself (which is different than ‘pleasuring yourself’ you vice grip on the cock perv) whatever someone is willing to pay you IS what you are worth. Baseball team owners pay players because they (the owners) will make more money on them in return. Otherwise they would not hire/sign them. Owners are dumber than shit and constantly pay for players that are heading downhill but that is not the player’s fault.

As far as schoolteachers and cops getting more money, then I suggest you vote yes in the future on every levy to increase taxes in your district. Oh … that’s right, fuck me on that one as it now affects you.

And of course we have this one:

if the players made less money then the average person could afford to take a family of four to a game

I’ve been to a ton of MLB games and sat next to and watched some of the most gigantic hillbillies and rednecks I have ever seen in my life. So obviously, the “below-average” person is making it to the games so I’m not sure what is stopping the average person. I personally love having beer be $10 a throw as it limits the number of stunning drunks and nutjobs I have to experience at the games.

So when you update your resume, try not to get mad at Albert Pujols for also wanting to determine his worth by allowing all of the 30 teams the opportunity to bid on his services.

And by the way, you want to help out a cop, dial 911 and make one of them come.