We here at the Manor have long (much longer than we'd care to admit) been fans of Major League Baseball. Our teams were the California (now called the Los Angeles) Angels, the Boston Red Sox and the Saint Louis Cardinals.
But be it known, that while we may still occasionally watch a pro ball game, we have had it with the pro game.
The reason is simple.
The pro players make too much money and the game has been ruined.
Now realize that we at the Manor are capitalists (though poor capitalists). We believe that a man or woman should be payed an honest wage for his or her work. The problem with pro baseball (and pro hockey, basketball and football as well) is that the players do not get paid for their work. They get paid on the promised results of their work. A player may have a great year and be played at the lower wage. A player may have a crappy year and be paid a superstar wage.
Ask yourself this: would my boss pay me the highest wage in the trade if I was a screw-up?
More importantly, baseball, more than any other sport, and in it's various permutations such as softball, is the American peoples' game. It's a game that the parents of children pay to have their children play in leagues, a game that kids play on the streets with tennis balls or red rubber balls, it's a game that adults play with wiffleballs.
Why should you pay to watch a game the you played for free as a kid. It's like paying to watch an adult build something with Legos.
If you want to watch baseball play baseball or softball or wiffleball.
Don't pay some guy who can't read a spreadsheet or build a house to do it for you.
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