Slabs

Because the White Sox can’t get over .500, the trade deadline is looming and sportswriters have nothing better to do, there are all sorts of stories in the papers about whether or not the team should trade Chris Sale.  For instance, yesterday’s Sun-Times quotes a major-league scout, speaking anonymously, as saying, “Many times with young, controllable superstars, it’s all about pricing the beef, gauging his real value.”  Pardon me, pricing the what?

This is why athletes in pro sports are willing to risk come off as moneygrubbers; their employers don’t even see them as human.  Who wouldn’t want to maximize his value under those conditions?  I’m forever talking about women in baseball.  Here’s an example of a guy—because you can bet that wasn’t a female scout talking—who can’t even see the humanity of the person he’s giving an opinion of.

I’d like to think that Branch Rickey is spinning in his grave right now.