Red Sox Dysfunction Just a Microcosm of Sports Today

Ever since the Boston Red Sox failed to make the playoffs this season, experts have been searching for reasons for their monumental September collapse.  A team once on pace for 100 wins and a trip to the playoffs stuttered big time, going 6-18 down the stretch and losing a nine game lead in the wild-card race as of September 3rd.  Reports have been coming out that arguably the team's top three starting pitchers (Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, and John Lackey) were drinking beer, eating fried chicken, and playing video games in the clubhouse during games instead of being on the bench.  To me, this is absolutely ridiculous.  It shows so much dissrespect to the game of baseball and to Americans in general.  It seems like athletes and sports in general these days are getting more and more dissrespectful and lazy every year.  Players are getting illegally recruited, using performance enhancing drugs, saying innapropriate things during interviews and social media, along with countless other examples that can be seen every day on ESPN.  Athletes don't care as much as they should and are just in it for the money.  They care more about themselves and their statistics rather than winning their game.  This specific Boston Red Sox incident is just a microcosm of sports today.