Professional Athletes??

This past weekend I sat back and relaxed in front of the television and watched whatever sport was on at the time, which was primarily baseball. So I am watching these so called professionals playing a kids game and getting paid millions of dollars supposedly doing it in a professional manner. I would like to know MLB’s idea of professionalism.

First of all, there is the rag tag bunch from Boston, the Red Sox, and World Series Champions two years back. On first glance they look more like potential actors auditioning for a modern Bad News Bears team movie than members of a championship winning professional sports team. Hats on slightly askew with hair protruding from beneath at odd angles, pants with the crotches at the player’s knees and the legs dragging behind them and, no doubt, some arms covered in ex-wives/girlfriends names or the latest in barbed wire designs. Some other players throughout the league are just as bad but they seem to be scattered more so than the Red Sox players.

The player’s actions themselves are not much better than their dress. Helmets and bats flying everywhere after a strikeout, f-bombs being dropped equally as frequent, and managers and players alike throwing tantrums at every bad call made by the umpires (which seem to be increasing) with no apparent punishment. These “professionals” don’t really seem to be very professional now do they? What would happen if a lawyer called a judge a cock sucker because he didn’t agree with a decision? He would be thrown in jail for contempt. Or if a manager told a director he made a boneheaded decision? The manager would likely be fired.

It’s time to bring the professionalism back to professional sports. If these multi-million dollar players can’t respect the hand that feeds them, then it’s time to replace them with those who will.