Word: shortstops
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...Olympics for once really did speak to larger issues of fairness and fellowship, baseball's World Series pitted brother against brother in a vintage New York City gang war. The image that lingers is not of a titanic home run or a dazzling play at shortstop, but of a large, fearsome pitcher preparing to throw a jagged piece of lumber toward a large, fearsome catcher. In the year 2000, the best of sports was about much more than sports. --Robert Sullivan...
...eyes of some, athletes have always been paid too much. This view was given new currency when the Seattle Mariners' free-agent shortstop, Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez, last week signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for (no typo) $252 million. Is A-Rod's windfall really news? Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio...
Sullivan doesn't get it. Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams and shortstop Alex Rodriguez have unique talents and skills. So much so that people willingly pay to see them in action and buy the products they endorse. If Sullivan doesn't think the athletes should be allowed to bargain for their compensation because they "get to play," then who should get the extra money that a Tiger or an A-Rod attracts? The team owner or league president in the corner office who has none of the talents or skills that fans pay to see? STEPHEN VELIE Norwalk, Conn...
...this is not Derek Jeter masquerading as the V-Spot. Alex Rodriguez did all of baseball a favor by taking Tom Hicks' ridiculous 10 year, $252 million contract to play shortstop for the Texas Rangers. Mark my words, when the history of baseball is written, this contract will be considered as epoch changing as the actions of Curt Flood and Marvin Miller...
...baseball slowly recovers from the ticket shock of one quarter of a billion dollars to play baseball, it must finally resolve itself to say that something really is wrong with a policy that permits Hicks to give two million less to his shortstop than he paid for the entire team...