Posted 10/22/2004 05:38:00 PM by Douglas

Time for the obligatory baseball post. While it was pretty hard to see the Astros go down in game seven, that was obviously only slightly more difficult than Sox fans watching Boston win. Or at least it was for this girl.

The death of a college student from a pepper-spray-filled projectile sparked anger and questions Friday about whether police used too much force to break up rowdy Red Sox revelers outside Fenway Park.

The mayor said more police will be at neighborhood bars during the upcoming World Series to make sure fans do not get too drunk or rowdy, but he backed off his threat to ban alcohol in the area during the games.

Banning alcohol sales in Boston during a Sox world series? And this is going to prevent a riot? What in the world was he thinking? It's horrible that this girl died, but jeeze, 80,000 drunken Sox fans are likely to get out of control. It still doesn't mean you should shoot a girl in the face.

I stumbled onto this site trying to figure out how much baseball players make. If you hate your job, don't click here. New York Yankees pay out $184 Million to its players, and the number two team is BoSox at $127Mil. First off, it's incredible that they make this kind of money to play baseball. Secondly, it's amazing that the American population wouldn't piss on a homeless person if they were on fire, yet have no qualms about ponying up this kind of money for these players, whether it's tickets, merchandising, or $9 beers.

But what's even more interesting is the disparity between the top and the bottom. Yankees with $184Mil, and the Milwaukee Brewers with $27Mil. Considering that Alex Rodriguez, who, judging from game 6, leads the league in moronic, titty-baby excuses for acting like a total ass, makes $22Mil all by himself, it's amazing that the bottom half of this list can compete at all with the top half. I guess they really don't.