High Priced Athletes

The recent demise of the New York Yankees is being blamed on one man Alex Rodriquez.  A-Rod  still has more than 114 million dollars owed to him on his contract.  The world is falling a part if you are  a Yankee fan  because A-Rod had a bad playoffs.  Why is this any different from any other playoff.  A-Rod is not Mr October,  he never has been.

If there is any blame for all this then the Yankees have to look no further than the front office in putting them in such a position.  My first question is why would any team pay such a high price for any player for such a long time.  The effective life of any athlete is very short and to even think that any player in his thirties  should get a ten year contract is preposterious

It seems people or businesses and I would throw any govenment agency into this category that has plenty of money (especially if it not theirs) they have a willingness to over pay for items that they could get cheaper but just because they can get it for any price they will pay that price. The Yankees paid A-Rod 24 million a year when they didn't have to pay a penny more than 10 or 12 million a year.

This dilemma  for the Yankees is their team is old and all their players are over paid and they are tied up in long term contracts.  Who's fault is that but the Yankees and their deep pockets?  The California Angels will be facing this same situation as  the older Albert Pulos gets.

The media has come up with this idea that the Yankees have to trade A-Rod and then pay most of the contract to who ever  weasles the deal with the Yankees.  A-Rod hit 272 this year which is 28 points lower than this career batting average.  That is still a decent average and if the Yankees get rid of A-Rod they are crazy especially if they were going to pay most of his salary to someone else to get rid of him.

The bottom line in all of this is people who think they are the smartest people in the world most of the time only have money not brains.  Why the Washington Nationals decided to  shut down their best pitcher when the innings count for the season finally arrived.  If they were planning to do that all year why did they not instead of pitching every fifth day just let him pitch once a week.  It is obvious to me having money  and having brains don't mix.  It seems this applies in government and sports.

Classic

It was just a battle   for second place in the conference but you would have thought they were playing for the title.  Southern Nash out slugs  Rocky Mount 36- 29.

The first play of the game was only a prelude to the way this entire game was going as Rocky Mount race 65 yards on the first play of the game to lead 7-0.  Southern tied the game at seven.  Rocky Mount retook the lead 13-7 only to watch the Firebirds jump in front 21-13 only to watch the Gryphons tie it back up.  Southern retook the lead at 28-21 only to watch Rocky Mount score with six minutes left but they  went for a two point conversion to take the lead 29-28.

  Faced with a 4th and seven from the Rocky Mount 35 Southern tossed their third td throw of the night to seal the victory.  Before this game would end Rocky Mount had moved the ball into Southern territory but a desperation heave in the inzone fell harmlessly to the ground and seal the Firebird victory.

Wasted with the defeat was the effort of Gryphon Mason Hines as he had 18 carries on the night for a mere 266 yards which for him was apersonal high.  Southern three touchdown pass will have people scouring the record books to see if they have ever donethat before.

Both Southern and Rocky Mount sealed playoffs spots Rocky Mount securing theirs courteous both Northern Nash and Nash Central losing tonight.Hunt Knocked of Nash Central 34-0 while Fike was beating Northern 42-21.

Tarboro remained unbeaten winning 21-0 over Farmville Central.  SouthWest Edgecombe finished their regular season womping Greene Central 52-6.  Tonight I attended the RMA- Halifax Academy game which was maybe my 5th eight man football game ever.  RMA won 48-7.  The biggest difference between eight man and eleven man is after a run of eight yards in eight man everyone says nice stop.  It is wide open football.

Tonight Rocky Mount Volleyball lost in the opening round of the 3-A playoffs at D H Conley 3-0. 

Need to pass on information concerning Hall of Fame former Rocky Mount High Trainer Bernie Capps who was hospitalized earier this week.  Talked with Bernie tonight at the RMA game and he is doing fine.