The end of Mark Buehrle and baseball childhood (Mid West Sports Fan)
As the pool of suitors for Mark Buehrle’s services began to firm up a week or
two ago, I started writing a post that would aim to dissuade him from taking
any other offer, as if I had the power.
I wrote several paragraphs, but ended up deleting the post. It wasn’t coming
together — not particularly insightful, nor particularly funny. Also, it
dawned on me at one point:
> I’m nearly as old as he is. But he makes more money in a year than I do in a
lifetime. Maybe two. This premise is awful.
I’d lost the ability to relate to Mark Buehrle at this level. Well, that’s not
true. I never really had the ability to relate to Mark Buehrle at this level.
That’s not particularly novel realization for me. As I went through college,
taking out a loan and accumulating debt, MLB contract negotiations took on a
different light. When I saw two parties arguing over a seven-figure sum, I
started applying the “lowball” number to my finances and thinking, “Wait a
minute…”
I don’t begrudge players for making as much as they do. There’s a lot of money
in the …
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