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No, but it's my money that buys the tickets, the merchandise, the cable channel to watch the game.

In the end, I'd rather see players go out there and give it their all every day.... than to watch them afraid to dive because they might get hurt. I want to see the pitchers be able to brush batters back, instead of a warning to both benches and fear of ejection. I want to see players willing to take a chance ad make a game turning play.

Players today have guaranteed contracts, they make more in 1 year than the average fan will in a lifetime..... so why worry? They don't have to give it 100% any more. They get that big 5 yr contract.... play ok ball for 3 1/2 years then may go out play a bit harder for that next big payday. It's actually sad to watch anymore.

Give me in their primes the Pete Rose's, Mike Hargrove's, Mike Schmidt's, Phil Neikro's, Tom Seaver's, Steve Carlton's or a team full of young kids that want to be there and show every game how much being there matters to them. I'll take a team like that over any Boston, NY, Cleveland, St.Louis, Texas, and so on's roster any damn day. They may not win, but at least you know day in and day out they gave all they had.

And the greatest part is..... he did it without steroids or growth hormone.

Well that and he did part of it in a Cincy uniform.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"