The baseball winter meetings are going on at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville this week. There is a whole lot going on down there, take it from XL, Inky and I. We went to the meetings one of the last times they were held at the Opryland, way back in 1998. We had just graduated from college, and were all working at various first jobs, finding them lacking to say the least.
We flew in to Nashville and went to all the various sessions set up to help college kids get "jobs" or internships in minor league baseball. What they really were amounted to were indentured servitude, and I use that term as a means of avoiding the s word. We were paid less then $3 an hour to work from 9 AM till after midnight doing some really terrible shit. But, we were 22 and we wanted to know what it was like to work in Pro Ball.
This time around the winter meetings will serve as a bridge to an even more disproportionate future in MLB. Word has come down that it will most likely be the Red Sox who land Johan Santana. Add to that the reported deal that would send Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera to Detroit for a bevy of prospects and the rich just keep getting richer. I have no idea who will take the field for the Marlins next year, but chances are they either wont be able to shave, or speak English.
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