Happy Monday, friends and fans!
Major League Baseball is feeling some serious heat with Kyler Murray at the plate. No, not because the Heisman Trophy winner is possibly taking his talents to the more violent and once-perceived less player-friendly NFL, but because he could potentially choose football over America’s pastime with the sports world watching.
Professional baseball has haplessly watched its popularity with young people decline rapidly over the past two decades, and it needs a player like Murray to choose it more than he needs it to elevate his own personal brand.
There were rumors about Murray’s party demanding as much as $15 million from the A’s, but Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle was all over it.