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  1. User Name
    Weren't two of those games lost by the BP though?
  2. User Name
    But being a DH is easy because you just go, take a couple cuts, and voila! You can go relax on your private jet!
  3. User Name
    I feel ya.
  4. User Name
    Oh man, don't even get me started on pitchers. Baseball is the only sport that has a position where players getting a specific surgery requiring eighteen (!) months of recovery is pretty much a rite of passage.
  5. User Name
    Or Hanigan, or Holt.
  6. User Name
    But why come to a logical, well thought-out conclusion when you can be childish?
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    Nah, we're just silly poopy-heads. It's better to put our heads in the sand and pretend like everything's alright. I mean, they rushed him a bit. The problem could be simply that he needs to finish building arm strength/knee strength, or it could be something more serious, but he was definitely not at his normal velocity.
  8. User Name
    Loss of velocity isn't a problem in and of itself, but is a lot of the time an indicator of other underlying problems. It's not silly at all.
  9. User Name
    The problem is that the grind is usually mental or physical. In the current professional sports landscape, it's both.
  10. User Name
    Or for blow, amirite?
  11. User Name
    It's doubtful people would give enough of a s*** to say stuff about him if he wasn't a superstar baseball player.
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    I would very much contend otherwise. A lot of people go for certain types of jobs (like customer service) because of a lack of desire/inability to deal with people in general. All things being equal, that and having to be away from your family/friends/home plus the lack of stability (trades, dealing with FA) etc. A lot of people would not play baseball for that money, but we can agree to disagree.
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    I've been saying that too. It depends a lot on the guy. And a lot of these guys would probably choose playing baseball just to be away from their wives for half a year.
  14. User Name
    But isn't that exactly what I'm saying? Let's say you're right, let's say they still had no private lives way back when. But notice that salaries have increased as their private lives, free time, ability to get away from the crowds and overall scrutiny have increased as well. I remember hearing a neighbor ask Hanley once (I think I told this story here once) back when I lived around the place where he lived as a kid, and he'd go around December with his entourage, close down the streets and buy booze for people on a grand scale: "Man, doesn't it bother you that people are always making s*** up about you?" (the story was he f***ed dudes as a kid to make ends meet) He answered: "I've got fourteen milion reasons to not give a f***".
  15. User Name
    The rest is s*** actually. Which is the point.
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    My problem is that I hate dealing with people for the most part unless I am in a position of professional advantage (if you can call it that). If you offered me one million to take on the entire ballplayer package, and one million for a 9-5 position package, I would take the 9-5 position package. For me, playing baseball should be a game, not a job.
  17. User Name
    What's boring is the preparation, traveling and promotional obligations.
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    But when the season was over, it was over. If you got caught cheating on your wife "meh", if you used performance enhancers "meh", if you said something stupid "meh". Sure, the media could go after you, but now all it does is go after you. That's why they make the money. You trade your privacy and personal life for money. It's a fair trade-off, but you still give something to get something.
  19. User Name
    Again, money. (Some guys do it for the love of the game, some for the spotlight) Show me the dough.
  20. User Name
    Do you think JD Drew, Manny Ramirez and Albert Belle would have signed up? There would be a long "f*** this" list too.
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    Oh it's pampered. But please don't compare the age of social media to Yaz' time. If this was the '60's or '70's, I would absolutely agree with you, but the added grind (yes, grind) of expectations, social media, the traditional media, the scrutiny etc, it's a hell of a lot harder being a ballplayer now than it was back when the requirements were: Play hard.
  22. User Name
    f*** that. For average money? No way bro. Only the guys that truly love the game itself would.
  23. User Name
    14 million for a 9-5 job? Without having to spend six months away from family, and dealing with ******* media and fans? I beg to differ, although that depends on the individual.
  24. User Name
    I'm sorry, not to be mean, but I think these guys live in a different reality.
  25. User Name
    Because of the money. And they make money for that specific reason. You wanna get real? Would you trade a 60 K 9-5 job for being a DH if being a DH also paid 60 K?
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