A St. Louis sports' writer, last week, presented the 'human-interest' side of the broken relationships and separation of teammates following a baseball trade between the Cardinals and Red Sox. Not only did the soap opera angle leave me 'cold' but it somewhat angered me.
Okay, it's great to know that these highly paid professional baseball players forge life-long friendships with others in the organization but this 'thing' cuts both ways. With 'free-agency,' a significant aspect of financial wind-fall contracts, many of these same players have NO PROBLEM 'leaving' so-called friends in the dust as they gallop off to greener pastures.
Please know this: Monies paid to major league baseball players in any given era relates specifically to the economics of those times. That said, MLB players of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's needed to 'get' off-season jobs to pay they bills.
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