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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Team v Team over de-signed prospect
Glove-slap: Neyer.
I just can’t get worked up over this at all. I think there’s as many stories of teams scr-wing players as there are of players scr-wing teams.
Falsifying your name seems to be a way of life over there. No reason for us uppity-up folks to think less of people, given that we’d almost certainly do the same thing as they would. What, you think we’re somehow better people because we’re lucky enough to have been born in a more prosperous part of the world? We won the Geography lottery, not the DNA lottery (*).
(*) Unless you are named Barry Bonds or Ken Griffey.
So, we have one team having an exclusive claim over a non-adult in perpetuity (unless that particular team thinks he’s good enough to be in MLB, and so, the perpetuity clause disappears after a long set period of time, or a shorter time if he’s not good enough). And then another team swooping in on that property under the same terms of perpetuity. And that property manipulates the system to his gain. I mean, this is a pretty unseemly business, if you think of the property as human beings. And this property never even agreed to this system anyway, and there’s nothing that he can do to change it, so he manipulates it.
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It’s true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn’t be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs, that’s a dirty business. ... It makes no difference, it don’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous.
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