- BASEBALL PLAYERS MAKING MILLIONS OF $$$
Many baseball players and other professional athletes have been called, among other things, "greedy." Why? Because many of them make in excess of a million dollars. If you really think about it, there are a lot of greedy people out there. I'm admittedly greedy because I go to college to earn a degree to make money and a better life; as good a life as I can. Obviously, I don't make a lot of money , but I'm still greedy. If you had a chance to make a million dollars doing something you loved, would you do it? Does that make you greedy? Not more than most people. If you are able to hit a 3-4 inch round object traveling at 95 mph with a round stick, or to throw ANYTHING over 90 mph, then you deserve to play Major League Baseball and make whatever money they'll give you to do it.
- HOW BASEBALL TEAMS ARE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY; NOT APART FROM THE COMMUNITY.
- THE ENVIRONMENT AND GUILT
- UNDERAGE DRINKING
After the Players Association and the Owners of
the baseball teams resolved their struggles and commenced with the 1995
baseball season, fans stayed away from the ballparks in droves! Pittsburgh
Pirate executives did everything short of handing out their eternal souls
for home game giveaways to try to lure their fans back to the park. What
is quickly forgotten is how much many baseball teams give to their community.
Examples of this can be found in my native Minnesota with the Minnesota Twins. The Twins currently have "The Twins
Community Fund" which supports many wonderful charities including,
but not limited to "The Ronald McDonald House," "St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital," and "Domestic Abuse Project."
Twins players and representatives spend the winter months traveling throughout
the state speaking to school aged children. Here are your greedy, selfish
ball players.
What is my responsibility towards the environment? What's anybody's responsibility? To me, it seems that I have been placed in blame for the problems of the environment. For things like drinking stuff out of a plastic bottle, I should feel guilt according to some people (environmentalist writers Nash, and Lerner). There are so many things to feel guilty for. I guess that if people can put blame on somebody, it can make themselves feel better ("The environment is YOUR responsibility!"). Hey that's great, but it doesn't really solve anything. I'm not saying that wanting to live in a beautiful place is wrong but this paranoia of "I did it, I'm bad" is pointless. I think of one big example right away: every bottle of pop almost undoubtedly has a little recycling symbol on it. As a human, I can relieve guilt by putting that empty bottle into the right can and think of myself (until my next bottle of pop) as a good environmentalist. But I prefer to think of good environmentalism as the piles of cans in my basement: Instead of playing with my conscience and guilt, my desire for monetary benefit is used to bring the cans to the recycling place. Once they're recycled, the aluminum siding guys, and the bottlers take my aluminum, and reuse it. Three parties won, no parties lost, nobody feels guilty. See? Why play with guilt like some environmentalist do?
Here in Minnesota, the legal drinking age is 21.
I think that in general, that age limit was created because there are a
lot of people who are 20 years old and younger who can not handle the responsibility
of drinking alcohol. This includes getting smashed, totaled, wasted, and
all-around bombed, and perhaps even driving a car. However, there are people
many years over 21 who shouldn't be permitted
to drink alcohol either. But if you're 18 or 19, and you can keep drinking
from getting out of control, then I personally won't attack you for
it.
- FINDING THAT SPECIAL ONE...
I've found in my many years (20 or so)on this planet that the primary purpose for a lot of people (and other creatures in nature) is to procreate before dying. It's because of that that you see a fair share of people who will date nearly anything that comes along with a heartbeat. Still, I find that in general, sometimes all you really need to do is just be nice to people, and get a reputation for being nice to people, and a good person is bound to come along. Sure, the odds are that you're going to get bent over (again, figuratively) by someone as you try, but finding that special someone is worth the journey you take to finding them. And never give up!!!
