This is less about news than it is about personal observation. The Bryce Harper return to Washington story has been pretty big and all over MLB news this week. A common thread among the Harper supporters has been a myriad of strung together words that all sum up to the same thing: “if somebody offered you more money to work elsewhere, you wouldn’t turn it down, either!”. Now, of course that is totally true. But I think it fails to address an important point, one that underlines the motives of those fans left behind.
Professional baseball is professional because it is presented as entertainment, from which all revenues are derived via the engagement between the factors and principals of a sport and the fans of that sport.