I may be in the minority, but personally, I don’t think any professional athlete, whether it’s baseball, football, basketball or whatever, is worth the money they’re paid. Tim Macarver, sportscaster and former major leaguer, summed it up perfectly when he said something about the fact that “it would be better if the fans didn’t really know everything that’s in these contracts. They just get mad.”

But, like so many other facets of Joe Citizens life, like Washington politicians, there’s nothing that can be done to change the system, so you’re better off just forgetting about it and going on like you don’t care. all the thing.

As a former minor leaguer, I can usually ignore the business side of baseball and focus on looking at the skills that are exemplified by some of these players, like Albert Pujos, who is absolutely amazing and worth every penny he makes if someone does it.

Then suddenly something happens in the field that brings the reality of the ridiculous wages being paid crashing down on me again. One such example occurred on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, when the St. Louis Cardinals botched an easy play that cost them a run and, ultimately, the ballgame.

Now I am not Einstein, but since I was 8 years old I have been taught to forever chases the runner, who is caught up in the race, back to the base he came from to limit damage if there is a mistake. The runner is on the original base and did not advance due to an error.

I taught you too never Fake a shot while chasing the runner, because you can fool your own teammate. You clearly hold the ball away from your body, at shoulder height so the other fielder can see it clearly.

Now keep in mind that we were doing this play when we were 8 years old and we were paying the association to play, we were not being paid to play.

The simple and disgusting ending to this story was that the St. Louis Cardinal infielders did everything wrong during this recap that could possibly have been done wrong.

They ended up chasing the runner toward home plate instead of back to third base, followed up with feint throws that eventually caught the pitcher off guard without waiting for the throw, causing him to drop the ball and allow the runner to will write down Which, as I said before, turned out to be the winning race.

While I’m not aware of exact player salaries, I’d feel pretty comfortable estimating that the players involved in this 3-ring circus earn around $15 million a year, if not more.

Am I angry about wages? Yes. I can learn to live with it though if players just played up to expectations and didn’t run a recap, which 8 year olds perform perfectly, it’s not my idea of ​​living up to expectations.