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Monday, August 03, 2009
The Assetification of our athletes
I am upfront in regards to the valuation of ballplayers: they are assets, like houses. It is no accident that I call him Albert Pujols Properties, with an asset (his production) and liability (his contract) value to come up with a net asset or surplus value. I am all for GPS on their uniforms, or whatever I can do to convert the human into something that I can properly value. Everyone does this, but I am unambiguous about it.
Pizza points to this article:
Confronted with cases of identity and age falsification by Latin American baseball prospects, Major League Baseball is conducting genetic testing on some promising young players and their parents.
This is pure b.s. of course. They are targetting Latin America because they must have fewer legal hurdles, and that the players there need MLB so much. Call it what it is. Curt Flood would.
Ideally, I would do this for all players, further reducing them to property. This is exactly the business of MLB.
Pedro once said that the Redsox owned his arm for six years, and they can do with it what they want.
If the players want to treat themselves as human beings, they would demand better workplace conditions, then would insist on playing no more than five games a week. And pitchers would demand better management of their workload.
This does not happen because players have turned themselves into property, voluntarily. For a price of course. We are all prostitutes, and all that is left is negotiating a price.
There is no need for me to treat players as more human than they treat themselves. If I want purity in my baseball players, I’ll watch my kid play with his friends. Otherwise, if players sell themselves, and allow DNA testing to be part of that equation, then I will treat them exactly as they want to be treated: a property to be valued.
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