Hey, sports fans — the boys of summer are on the hunt in October for a World Series championship win.
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Is your team in the game or did it run out of gas?
Read: One Man’s Opinion: MLB teams can run out of gas, despite rising costs of baseball
In One Man’s Opinion, Lee “Hacksaw” Hamilton has some thoughts on the rising costs of fielding an MLB team. Is it possible to buy a World Series berth? Do the millions of dollars pay off? Do balls and strikes equate to dollars and cents?
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Everything matters in baseball. Baseball is a numbers game. I used to intern in the scoreboard dept for a major league team and if you messed up one number on the scoreboard those athletes were calling. The salarys of players the trading, every thing has a price. I think its part of the motivation for players as well to do their best. I think it is possible to buy a World Series. I like to see an even playing field but that is kinda like socialism and I am not a fan of Obama where everyone must get their fair share. If you want a great team run recruit the right players, build up start winning and rake in the money. Are you asking are you leading us down the Obama path where money is evil and we must share with those lesser teams who dont run thier teams as well? I hope to win….my 10 year old son has never been to a pro football game and I would love to take him he wants to be pro football player and own his own restaurant in off season…he has a plan!!
It probably is true that throwing enough money at a ball club will result in a trip to the World Series or at least a nice finish in the playoffs. The bigger issue is what this will do to the sport. Frankly, baseball isn’t all that popular anymore anyway and the more formulaic it gets, the less entertaining it will become. People get passionate about underdogs and Cinderella stories and against all odds victories and rivalries. If baseball becomes nothing more than a dollars and cents transaction, it will be like everyday challenges we already face in our own lives. The sport will cease to transport us, to lift us. The owners themselves should be evaluating the larger result of the system they designed. They may be spending themselves right out of relevance in modern American society. Baseball may never die but will it ever really live again if it becomes an equation instead of entertainment?
I may be getting cynical with age, but ANYTHING can be bought and sold these days, we have business names on stadiums, arenas and other venues that used to honor heroes, veterans, statesmen, REAL PEOPLE, not some money making machine that pays to have its name placed where everyone can see. Next thing you know, schools will be renamed for businesses just so they can be better funded. I am tired of our Materially Based thinking, let’s get back to Love of the Game and Sportsmanship.
Sports has become a BUSINESS with a bottom line and no heart! When did it become normal to pay people over a million dollars for doing something they supposedly love for the game. Sounds like greed to me. People are now being “bought and sold” as well. Many of these players go off the beam with the fame and fortune, becoming the worst thing possible, an ANTI role model.
I love Baseball, love to go to games and watch the way that the teams pull together to make us feel like rooting for them. We need to dial back the material and bring back the quality, the team spirit, the love of the game and remember why we love it in the first place; because the PLAYERS love it and are there to give us a reason to want them to win. May be tired, but there is no ” I ” in TEAM. Let’s get back to the real game, the way it should be. For the LOVE of it, the Sportsmanship of it, the competition, the sheer enjoyment of it. People need that in these hard times, to really feel that it is helping us, not bringing us down.