May
13
2004
More Baseball
1More Baseball
First, Pedro - 2004 Salary $17,000,000.00. Man.. how can he survive?
Second, the average salary for a professional baseball player has dropped to only $2.49 million. This is terrible, how will they be able to support their families, afford their expensive cars and homes and at the same time pay for all those steroids? Something is going to have to go. I suppose we can expect to see a lot of divorces as ballplayers dump their families.
Of course, the real suckers are those who pay to go to the games or even watch them on TV. Why take the time to watch spoiled millionaires play a sport they constantly complain about. Better to spend your time watching kids play real games on sand lots than having to take out a bank loan so you can afford to take a boy to the ball park. I wonder if the major leagues would consider outsourcing the player positions to India to reduce costs?
Cutting Edge?
If you or your business thinks you're on the cutting edge of anything, think again. "Cutting edge" is such a hackneyed term that it barely gets you off the bottom of the box, much less out of it. "Cutting edge" doesn't connote sharpness or edginess or anything remotely knife-like anymore - it's one of those metaphors that's gotten dull and needs to be replaced before someone gets hurt.
Obituary
Definitions From "The Cynic's Dictionary": OBITUARY: A final summation of our lives that, for most of us, occupies about three inches of space in what will shortly become cage liner for our neighbor's parakeet.
What They Said:
RantUser says The death of language on 5/31/2004
It isn't only "cutting edge" that's misused. Our best English-language descriptions are cheapened through overblown over-use.
Fantastic. Awesome. Humungous. Words like these have lost their impact through being adopted by the illiterati as "long" or "difficult" words with which to impress.
And when the words get boring, you can try fantastically awesome. Or awesomely fantastic.
Like, WOW, man.
It's not the words, stupid. It's how you use them. Sparingly, appropriately. And for effect.
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