Monday, April 16, 2012

The game of baseball has turned from just a game into a multi billion dollar business. The business aspect of baseball has become such a more dominant role in the way the game is played by the players. The players are now property of the team and are dealt like playing cards to other teams usually for an increase in salary. Not only are players dealt around entire baseball teams are capable of being put up for sail for upwards of a billion dollars.

I am not trying to say that in the beginning years of the League that there was not trading of players I just mean that there was more respect for players. For example a player who has been a part of an organization for 10 years is just traded away like nothing during todays game. The level of professionalism has declined over these last couple of years and the game has been tainted by steroids and by controversial actions done by players/coaches.

Recently in the Controversial move by the coach, Ozzie Guillen stated that he "loves Fidel Castro" this offending the famous announcer for the Marlins who escaped from Cuba at a young age. He did not only offend the announcer but the millions of fans who took offense to this statement. Of course the front office of the Marlins forced Ozzie to apologize to the fans, that his comment was not serious and was not appropriate.

1 comment:

  1. Your last two posts have reminded me of the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt. He takes the game and makes it a little bit less about money, and more about the players. I loved the way he used the players batting averages and everything to figure out if they had any potential in the future. I am also sad that the game has changed from pure enjoyment to being all about the money. I want to believe that players still try to be faithful to their teams, but when Matt Damon left the Sox I was mortified so maybe it is all about the money these days.

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