The one strike in baseball that no one should care about...
CNN tells me: Baseball players set Aug. 30 strike date.
My inner monologue says "Who cares?"
Really... I mean it.... is there anyone who really cares? I mean other than the money-grubbing players and the money-grubbing owners and the money-grubbing agents, does anyone care?
Now I seem to recall that Ronald Reagan stepped in to stop the traffic controller's strike. I care a great deal about air traffic controllers. It's a horribly stressful job and they don't get paid a lot.
But these are baseball players. This is not a stressful job.... this is a job where you hit and catch a ball.
I think that the Supreme Court, which isn't doing anything else other than discussing whether the Pledge of Allegiance is illegal immoral or fattening, should step in. Martial law should be declared over anyone involved in Professional Baseball. ALL of the parties ~~ and I mean everyone who is making over $100,000 a year off of baseball ~~ should be forced to work for one month at a real job making real take home pay. I want to see these people step out of their thousand dollar suits and million dollar homes and see what life is like for the rest of us.
I propose a one-year ban on baseball, starting September 1st.
The big execs ~~ the ones who sit in their offices and aren't even playing ~~ should spend 6 months in a (so-called) 3rd world country, you know the ones with the little kids that you try not to look at when the commercial comes on TV? Let's send all of the execs over there and have them eat (what they can find) sleep (if they can) and live there with the same amount of money one of the local folks has. Heck, let's even DOUBLE it for them.
Don't think the players are getting off any easier. First of all they are going to work road construction in Florida. Instead of swinging bats, let's get them swinging shovels. Next, instead of one-handing pop-flies like it was some sort of physical accomplishment, let's have them build homes for needy families.
My guess is that by Christmas all of them will be begging to come back and play their silly game .... and they will appreciate all the more actually getting paid to play a child's game.
But it's a year-long ban. The only way they can come back sooner is if they promise to split their income (their GROSS income) and donate it to charitable causes for, let's say 5 years. Their pay alone could pull several countries out of debt, and 5 years is long enough for them to think about whether or not they can't come to some reasonable agreement about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they should split for hitting and catching a little white ball.
I don't blame them, by the way.... it's us.... you and me and everyone else who pays to go see these spoiled brats play.... we're the ones who have put up with this for so long that they think they're entitled to the money that they make.
That's just my opinion, I think they're wrong.