Baseball...

Yeah, it's winter (at least it feels like it!). Why would I be posting a blog about baseball now?? Well, an interesting news story has been brought up recently concerning collisions at home plate. They want to ban it (basically because baseball is a "non-contact" sport). Ok, here's my thinking on this. The catcher is the only player on the field wearing protection basically head to toe. They are paid millions of dollars to play a game! And they know the risk of playing catcher. The same way a pitcher knows if he has to cover home plate because of a wild pitch and a runner at 3rd. The runner's "job" is to score! It's a ridiculous rule. Here's the way I see it. You signed a contract, you accepted the risk. The same risk that has been part of the game for over 100 years. More than likely you were a scholarship college player (if you weren't and didn't go to college, well shame on you!) and hopefully you learned something other than how to catch and hit a ball. If, God forbid, you get injured, and you are smart enough to have a backup plan AND to have saved a little bit of your millions of dollars contract, get a regular job like the rest of us who do NOT make millions of dollars (hell, we barely make thousands)! Nuff said!