Professional Sports - Free Agency is Causing the Slow Death of Baseball

Free Agency is Causing the wearisome Death of Baseball What ever happened to the old days? This is a remark that my Dad and Grandpa are always saying when it comes to major federation baseball in this era. Like clockwork, at the beginning of both baseball season my Dad says, Every year my team has all parvenu faces. How am I supposed to root for this team if I dont til now know who is playing for them. Now, more than ever, this comment is true. It is true because of free performance in baseball. Free agency is reposeing the fabric of the baseball blanket in America. This is the same blanket that m whatever of us sports fans possess grown up with and have drawn accustomed too. Baseball is our national pastime. If something is not through with(p) to change free agency in baseball it may not remain our national heritage in the future. Baseball is the sport that every kid growing up has a dream to play. These same kids also look at major league baseball players as their routi ne models. If free agency runs the same course that it has been running it give destroy baseball. If nothing is done to change free agency all that we, as baseball fans, will remember baseball as is a pastime. tally to Rick Reilly, a freelance writer for sports magazines, free agency (which he broadly defines as an athletes ability to offer his services on the unfold market to the highest bidder,) is a threat to baseball (108). However, free agency does have a few restrictions that do not allow just any player to file for it. A player with zero to three long time of experience must negotiate his salary with club management a player with more than three but less than six all-inclusive years in the majors has an option of submitting a salary quarrel to an independent arbitrator and a player with si... ...blanket that fans of the sport have travel attached to like a security blanket. What free agency is doing to baseball should not be tolerated by us, the fans. It should not ev en be tolerated by anyone associated with the sport. Free agency it could end up destroying the future thoughts and dreams of baseball fans all the same to come. If something is not done to free agency in baseball, which is considered our national pastime, will not be considered that by future generations to come. Works Cited Gelin, Dana. Fish Tale. Sports represent Commemorative Issue 1997 28- 30. Kurkjian, Tim. Blueprint For Success. Sports Illustrated Commemorative Issue 1997 16-19. Reilly, Rick. Fishing For Marlin Fans. Sports Illustrated border 9, 1998 108 Worsnop, Richard L. Pro Sports Big Challenge. Editorial Research Reports 9 Feb. 1990, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 82-94