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I could easily live comfortably for a few years off of a 1/2 million dollars!

Yes, I never insinuated that he was at the end of his playing career.  He left the game for family reasons, i.e. to spend more time with his family.  He was torn between the game he loved and the dedication a father had to his family.  I agree, if he had continued playing those two years, he would have been even more so, one of the greatest to ever play second base.

When he did this, it made me think of the lives these athletes live and whether I would ever want one like it.  And then I joined the RCAF and flew around the world for 23 years.

Reading all the comments, it is interesting to read of the MiLB, not a baseball guy so never really pay it much attention. Yesterday they released the coronor's report for the Marek Svatos hockey player, and how he died is very very sad. He was obviously one of two things .... one, he is someone his union missed (slipped through the cracks) or two, somebody they could no longer help/save. In this day and age I can't honestly see a Union ditching somebody who has problems that deep. The NHL CBA has huge outreach / support groups for these types of problems as does every league but it still a shock when you read about it.

I did, indeed, misread the Sandberg comment! I apologize. Must've gotten defensive because he's my favorite player. Still, always glad to tout his skills. Your point was well taken. 

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I'll blame Spellcheck for my misspelling of Sandberg.  I do know the proper spelling of his name.  I just now noticed it!

I really can't complain about what the market will allow.  Now college tuition, which is artificially supplemented by federally funded grant money, is a different issue.  True market rates are not in effect in that case.  I find professional baseball games affordable, and factory sets of Topps baseball have remained under $50 for many years.  Now if we can get rid of the luxury taxes.

Round87--how can you make such a suggestion?  The luxury taxes are sometimes the only way to keep the games somewhat fair. And what would you suggest we replace the luxury tax with?  If anything, I think it should be considerably higher than it is today. $75 barely makes a dent most of the time.  Why not $500 or more?  Let's face it, without the luxury tax, any person who owns both Boardwalk and Park Place basically gets a free pass every time they get to that part of the board. What do we do, put in another lame Community Chest space?  I don't think so.

That reminds me...in what year's non-sport would I find those Monopoly property cards we trade back and forth all the time?  It's the Parker Brothers version of the game, so would it be in their copyright date from the instructions, or the year that this particular game I have was manufactured?