Flyers fined for holiday travel

The Philadelphia Flyers are a hockey team. This was not placed on the general population. I'm assuming their player's union have negotiated that the hockey players should not be traveling during holidays so they may spend that time with their families.

It reads as if the Flyers organization had sent some, or all, of the players to Nashville (a city that has a hockey team) for a game. I don't have much sympathy for professional athlete unions. They get paid a lot of money to play a game and most retire after 10-15 years. It's not like they are working in a sweat shop environment where they get paid less than minimum wage and safety standards are non-existent for their entire lives. Any danger they face is part of the job (contact sports can be dangerous) and they accepted those risks when they decided to play the game. Their job is to entertain us and if we want to be entertained on December 26 then they need to suck it up and do their job!

Off topic but related: I was pretty pissed at the MLB's (Major League Baseball) decision to ban home plate collisions. It's been a part of the game since it's inception and was one of the most exciting plays in the sport to watch. An average MLB catcher has a collision, what, 10-20 times a year? And they wear padding? Give me a million bucks a year (I'd do it for less than that) and I'll let a MLB player collide with me 20 times a week. Point is, if you didn't want home plate collisions you shouldn't have been a catcher, you knew it was part of playing the position going in.

 

Pete Rose is a compulsive liar and a douche bag. Great baseball player, horrible person. Kinda wish it was him on the other end of that collision.