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Originally Posted by pan6467
How long can your team afford players that won't push themselves?
And I am not saying go out there and injure yourself, but go out and give 100%.... if a player feels giving 100% may cause injury, he doesn't deserve his pay or to even be in the game. And owners/GMs/managers that don't push their players to give 100% deserve fired or to sell the team. And the fans who don't want to see their players give 100% deserve high paid losers and teams that go nowhere.
I would watch the Indians and Reds no matter what as long the players give 100%. But we get high paid bums, that get the big money and don't even try (like Cleveland has now, pitching excluded except for the bum CC), they still don't challenge the division because they won't give 100% every day and aren't even worth a free ticket.
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I see players give 100% all the time. To be honest, I don't think there's much difference between the way the players play today and the way they supposedly played back in the day. The only difference is you've gotten older and jealous of the money they make. I'll agree that salaries are way too inflated, but there's still a majority of players that love the game and give it all they have. Just because they don't look like a madman running the bases like Pete doesn't mean they aren't giving their all.
It's funny you talk so much shit about Cleveland. Really.. what's so bad about them? All teams have a bad year no matter what talent they have.. shit, look at Detroit and the Yanks. Loaded with talent but nothing to show for it. I may talk shit about Boston when they are down, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't go watch them play. If anything is wrong with the game, it's fans that expect too much. I think we forget ballplayers are human just like the rest of us.
now for the cubbies.. I said I was waiting for self destruct mode to kick in.. and it may have just started.
