I fear that there is one thing that will eventually make me stop following major league baseball. It won't be interleague play or shaving cream shaming rituals or robot umps. It will be the amount of money that baseball players are making. I've never been one to begrudge the money that major leaguers make. While my father openly mocks the cash players receive, I understand that they're entertainers and entertainers in successful businesses are paid handsomely. We can holler about the injustice of teachers, doctors, scientists (or, god forbid, journalists ) not receiving what they're worth in comparison, but we live in an entertainment, consumer-driven society. So although the amount of money a long-innings relief pitcher makes in one year repeatedly blows my mind as I bounce checks over a simple monthly bill, I get it. Big leaguers are paid what the market will bear. I understand. But I don't like what it's doing to everyone else. They obviously can...
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