Wednesday, July 2, 2008

PSSST. WANNA BUY A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY? BEISBOL DOES


Happy Evil Beisbol Day

Today is Christmas for the predators who stalk rural villages of Latin America and sign 16-year-old chattle for MLB.

The buying and selling of boys.

Have they ever shaved? Are they virgins? Have their billiards even dropped?

You better believe the MLB scouts know, because teams are dropping million dollar bonuses on a few teens, the ones they’ve courted through their pimps.

This is evil.
Everybody knows this is evil.

Would America let MLB sign 16-year-olds, 10th graders? Of course not.

But these are Latino boys. So Bud Selig says it’s OK.

Folks, this is the baseball's most rancid scandal. It makes the steroids thing look like the controversy over Britney Spears’ weight. This is generational. This is geopolitical. Why do the major media outlets merely report on the Latino signings as it’s ESPNs coverage of the NFL draft?

And it gets even worse, the closer you look.

The Chicago White Sox recently cleaned house on their Latino scouts due to "improprieties" that will probably someday win some reporter a Pulitzer. God knows what they were doing. Bottom line: They were/are running recruitment systems aimed on wooing teen-agers, the younger the better. That means finding them, training them, exploiting them - and throwing away most of them.

Signing 16-year-olds. Can you imagine that?
And often, they have to wait for the kid to turn 16 before they can announce it.
They actually signed him at 15. Or maybe 14.

Oh, I know what they say: The kids are getting million dollar contracts. Why feel sorry for them?

A few kids get million contracts. But think about a whole generation, a whole economy, balanced on the backs of Little Leaguers and their personal trainers. Think about it.

For every kid with a contract, how many wind up on the slag heap?

Signing kids at age 16.

Hello? Media? Gammon, Madden, anybody?
Are you so bent on maintaining sources that you can't even say anything about this? Because, at some point, this whole rotten system comes crashing down. And when it does, maybe people will wonder about all those great journalists who were not there.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry. Did you say the White Sox or the Catholic Church were dismantled due to improprieties with young boys?