MLB: Baseball Ruined By Corruption

There's no doubt that baseball is a kid's game. 

There's nothing like trying on your very first pair of cleats, or having your very first bag of sunflower seeds. 

Baseball is built on the foundation of youth. Many of us dreamt about playing under the lights of Yankee Stadium at one point or another during our childhood. And many of us had aspirations of becoming a major league ball-player someday.  

But as we grow older, we lose our childhood innocence. Suddenly, baseball isn't about cleats, sunflower seeds, or childhood aspirations anymore. It somehow becomes diluted, corrupted, and altered by the world around us.

Somehow baseball, a kid's game, gets ruined by the adults. 

Baseball was meant to be played by kids, not adults. When you're a kid, you're innocent. You play baseball for all the right reasons—to hoist that cheap, plastic league trophy with your teammates and to just have fun. 

Ask yourself, what are the biggest factors in today's society that make the MLB seem so corrupted and dirty at times? 

Are the big contracts to blame?

Or how about the steroids that make some players appear to be invincible? 

There's absolutely, positively, no real legitimate reason as to why a single MLB player (unnamed) should be making $33 million per season. There's also absolutely no reason as to why a player (unnamed as well) who admitted to using steroids should even be mentioned on a Hall of Fame ballot. 

With the economy in such bad shape, why do sports franchises in general continue to open their wallets? Is a player really worth $126 million? Are field level seats really worth hundreds of dollars? 

It seems to me that some players get consumed by all these factors. They lose sight of what's truly important. And as a result, they often take the game for granted. 

They forget about how it was like to be a kid. They forget how it was to try on their first pair of cleats. They forget all their little-league chants, their first glove, and all the other memories that make baseball so enjoyable.

I'm not saying all players forget what it's like to be a kid, because that would be an absurd notion.

I'm just saying that baseball is a kid's game that is often times ruined by adults.

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