Most of you that visit the Rant
have no concept of what it means to have children.  Putting a smile on a
child's face is a feeling second to none.  Many years ago, sometime after
the ice age, going to a Giants game by my self at Candlestick Park was fun and
cheap.  Not these days, if baseball continues in the direction that
it's headed in, our children, crap, even we, are screwed.  Tickets are so
high even today, to fathom what they might be in one, three, or five years has
to scare the shit out of a parent.  Standard families have two children, a
dog, two cars, a mortgage, and bills.  In these improving, but struggling
financial times for the average Joe, to hear baseball players crying because
their salaries are to low makes me sick and my stomach turn. Taking a family of
four to the ballpark can cause instant stoke after the planning stages,
not to mention bankruptcy.  Just for a second the players should sit down
and realize that we, the fans of this game, pay for the idiotic salaries. 
To bitch about not making an extra $ 500, 000 for half a season brings only one
thought to my mind, pussies, well maybe babies is a better
term

    As this roams my mind, those family oriented
MasterCard commercials come to mind:

•         Brining home a team pennant
  flag for your child:      $ 25.00


•         Buying a new baseball mitt                                     
  $ 40.00


•         Taking your entire family to
  a MLB game               
  $ Your entire 401K, priceless my ass

    Baseball can no longer make the statement as "America's
past time", changing it to "Highway Robbery" seems to fit the bill.