Poor owners? Yeah, right!

Next time the owners of major league sports franchises cry poor, it would be handy reference material to remember the shenanigans of Major League Baseball owners and general managers circa the 2006 off-season.
The mixed bag of nuts, easily identified by the portable vaults strapped to their backs and otherwise known as owners, obviously became filthy rich in the first place by being shrewd businessmen, likely with a keen eye for the bottom line. Yet here they are handing out contract money this off-season as if it were air to free agent players who often possess sketchy and mediocre past performance records.
Whatever crappy season awaits, this class of free agent acquisitions falls into that I-told-you-so posture their rivals, not so lucky in signing a free agent or two, will be sure to adopt.
Of course, you wouldn't expect there to be any plea of a shortcoming of funds. There is, after all, no collective bargaining agreement threatening to disrupt the game. All is rosy in baseball, so money flows.
That's because MLB has recently taken care of its labour situation for years to come with an agreement struck with the players union and announced during the playoffs.
You know, it makes perfect sense the most recent meetings would be held in Orlando, Fla. with a backdrop of Disneyworld.
It also might make a guy wish he was somewhat younger and a wee bit more talented. After all, a young man stationed in the right hotel lobby with a ball glove in one hand and a baseball bat slung over his shoulder and looking like he might know how to play, could easily be mistaken by an owner anxious to empty his vault and hand out a few million crumbs.
It's just plain Goofy.