Spring training is always a good time for athletes to report to camp in shape and with a positive outlook on the upcoming season. We hear a lot of different changes that ball players make from work out routines to new batting stances. Occasionally a guy will switch up his diet a little bit or start eating protein shakes for lunch. In Milwaukee (Algonquin for the good land) Prince Fielder has decided that his 5 11" 270 pound frame is going to tackle becoming a vegetarian. That's right, the son of Cecil Fielder one of the fattest players of all time has stopped eating meat and fish.
You may wonder why after nearly 23 years of life Fielder made this decision. Is it because he wants to trim down that heavy frame or did he get some bad news about cholesterol levels at his last physical? As it turns out it's because his wife (already a vegetarian) gave him a book to read about how cattle and other animals are treated when they go to a slaughter house.
Evidently at no point in his life did Prince Fielder ever consider how the meat he ate got to the grocery store or to the restaurants where he ate. He claims to have not known what goes on when innocent little cows or chickens go off to become the delicious steaks and wings we all love an enjoy. This one book moved him so much that he made this amazing life choice.
I find this amazing, I mean if he has never heard of Jesus and someone handed him a Bible would he abandon baseball to become a minister? Or if he has never read Carl Marx (and I'd bet he hasn't) and he was given the Communist Manifesto would he demand a trade to the Reds? I'm all about life changing events but normally it involves nearly losing your own life or someone around you not reading propaganda books written by biased parties. For his gulliblity and for undoubtedly letting down his father (who may have eaten himself to death) I deem Prince Fielder to be my Stiff of the Week!
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