Monday, December 8, 2014
The Minimum
Did you know that the minimum salary for a major league professional baseball player is now $507,000. Wow, this is a lot of money, and it is the least a guy can make. Why is this? Well, it turns out that very few people can hit a baseball thrown at 90+ miles per hour which is also dipping and curving as it comes to the hitter. A baseball player is a rare person. I think I have something that is rare, but it makes no big money for me. I tell stories in my homilies. Children love it. But they have no money. Adults tell me that they love my preaching, but then they don't come back for a month. Plus, when I preach the collections are no better, and often worse, than when I don't preach. I am thinking of becoming a hermit and just blog in my cave. But this would be a form of whining, and since "The Boys In The Boat," I don't want to whine anymore. I'll just preach catechism and rest my imagination. Well, some of the stories have a fib or two.
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It is not fibbing. I too am Irish and like to relate happenings- .To make a story even better--I've been accused of exaggeration and inaccuracies --is not fibbing or exaggeration . I choose to call it embellishment. I think you do it quite well.
ReplyDeleteI believe baseball players have to do a lot to be at the bottom pay scale. Just so that the lower skill player doesn't get their spot. They have to have a sport agent, carry their many expenses. Etc. etc. etc.
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