“He who knows himself is a sage”… Lao Tzu.
“And if you don’t know yourself, look for someone to introduce you to yourself… JV
Juan Soto’s agent, Scott Boras, was interviewed on television in New York the day before yesterday, Wednesday, when he stated…: “We are in no hurry to sign any contract. We want to go step by step, year after year with Washington, until Juan can declare himself a free agent. So we’re going to claim the best fee and the longest contract in history, because he’s superior to Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Francisco Lindor, Fernando Tatis and everyone else. We will demand 600 million dollars, for 15 years”…
That’s how the rumba goes, I say, right?…
A Major League Baseball spokesperson told me yesterday…: “We will be here, in Jupiter, dealing with the matter, until there is an agreement”… Happy New Year 2023!… He added that they are making “an effort to find the end of the lockout” , implemented by team owners since December 2.
Lie! If so, this dismal inactivity would already be over. The only “effort” they make, and it keeps them in the tangle, is the search for more and more millions of dollars, both on one side and the other…
“Why would Cato call his friends Himenia Camafría and Celiberia Sinvaron? Who knows!”…JV
The 30 Major League teams prepare their activities as if the season were normal. But the truth is that it couldn’t be more abnormal…
Paradoxically, on a day like today, February 25, but in 1973, bigleaguers and owners reached a work agreement, which included a new minimum wage of 15 thousand dollars per season. Now, in 2022, the minimum wage, of 570,500, is considered miserable by the players and they demand 800,000…
President Bill Clinton in 1995, made a little time between one session and another with Mónica Lewinsky, to order the judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to force them to play ball. And so the strike ended.
Now, this lockout cannot receive help from the White House, because the President, Joe Biden, is very busy with the tremendous world danger that Russia, Ukraine and annexes represent…
“No robot will be a better umpire than the worst human umpire. They couldn’t even beat Ángel Hernández”… JV
Thanks to life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.
