But a lot of the time I think, if you could go back to the summer of 1979, you would have chosen baseball no matter what. It's not about money, just love for baseball.
Yeah, how could you not fall in love with baseball.
But is it really so?
Do you always believe that stubbornness to your dreams will lead to a happy ending, even if it hits the bottom of your life and turns Benyin from a graduate of a prestigious university into an old man whose divorce career has fallen into a low ebb? ?
More than just baseball, the professional sports industry is like a processing plant, sucking in all the talented young people, and then cultivating future superstars from these people. Day after day, year after year. But in many cases, we only see those who are successful, but ignore those who have been sacrificed by the system. And this is precisely the cruelest part of professional sports.
Many times, you may have better options, you can go to college, you can start a business, you can do a lot of things. And you made choices for your dreams. But many times, this choice often does not bring you a better life. Your career can be easily destroyed: rookie walls, injuries, brainless coaches, etc. In the end, many of them end up looking like the protagonists: high school education, low income, and separation from wives.
At this time, will you still say out loud that you love baseball, love it very much?
Many times, the desire to dream does not give us the life we want.
But more often, the level of attachment to your dreams determines how far you can go.
Even if it is to abandon the long-standing team building system, or to fight against the head coach and scout, or even at the cost of overthrowing the entire professional baseball system, it is necessary to prove that small teams are capable of realizing their dreams, not just following Pick up and eat the leftovers behind the big team.
So the appearance of the fat man became inevitable. A genius Yale economics graduate, he gave Billy the opportunity to change: the opportunity to change a system where scouts determine life into a system where scientific and rational data speak.
Is this a redemption? Or a kind of unwillingness?
No matter how you say it, Billy did not give in in the face of the powerful resistance in the system, blocking his life that he could no longer lose.
I admire this kind of people who gamble with their fate, because paranoia is, in a sense, a necessary quality for a successful person.
It's not for money, and it's not for being a champion. Just for faith, a faith that takes love deep into the heart.
How can you not love baseball.
Luckily, at least in our eyes, you succeeded.
Fortunately, there are always a small group of people in the world who stubbornly want to change the world, even if the world has not changed for them.
So, just enjoy the show.
Tears welling up.
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