I tell you, sometimes it seems I work harder on the weekend then I do during the week. Trying to cram into two days what would normally take 4 or 5, mixed in with soccer games and church and such...and I still didn't get the lawn mowed. But, we made one young lady very happy this weekend.
Tony Gwynn got inducted into the baseball hall of fame today. Yes, Cal Ripken did as well but since I grew up following the Padres, Tony's the one I'm interested in. Both of these players played for the same team for 20+ years and many of those years were pretty sorry years, which makes what they did even that much more remarkable. Todays athlete either goes where the money is or goes where he may have the best chance of winning. What they fail to realize is there is more to life then winning. Of course, since most talented athletes are handed whatever they want, they don't have the experience of "needing" so it makes sense to them to either take the money and/or jump to a team that has the best chance of winning now. They have no loyalties except to themselves. Tony and Cal didn't do that. They stayed through thick and thin. They acheived their success in spite of their teams sometimes. I know Tony had chances to move on, but there were more important matters to him. In our lifes, we face the same thing. In our jobs, yes there may be places where we can work where we can make more money, but if we work in a good environment, with great people, with nice benefits, where's the problem? Now, if we stay in a job where the people are horrible and the company is horrible, and the owners don't respect you, well then it's time to look elsewhere. But, if we were like most current day athletes, we'd jump from company to company and not get to know if the one we were at offered up anything special. It's the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" mentality that makes it rough.
Where am I going with this? I look at what Tony and Cal did, and I realize that staying and working things though isn't all that bad sometimes. We all know when it's time to do something different, go someplace new, but we need to look at all of the factors, and not just the dollar line. Yes, having the money and winning is nice, but sometimes it's just as much fun just playing the game.
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one things they both said in their speeches is that they are professional players and with that title they are also role models and they lived their lives accordingly - that today's "professional" players are not the role models that we once had and that truthfully we really need.
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