The pages of sports blogs are filled with fan complaints about the greed of professional athletes. Some of these complaints are valid, some of them are naive, unfair, and lacking in perspective, and the rest fall somewhere in between.
Rarely though are we presented with a story about an athlete dealing with his contract in which all sports fans agree that the athlete handled it in a way that is selfless, integrity-filled, and generally beyond reproach.
Today, we are presented with such a story, which is why I want to take a few minutes to recognize Gil Meche, formerly of the Kansas City Royals.
If you have not yet heard, Meche is retiring. In the process, he is walking away from the final year of the controversial (at the time he signed it) five-year, $55 million contract he signed before the 2006 season. Follow this link to MLB.com if you want to hear Meche’s reasoning for yourself.
Essentially it boils down to this: Meche continues to deal with injuries and doe...
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