Something I don't pay much attention to… the baseball draft…..the signing deadline is this Wednesday, or teams lose their picks and they become free agents or go back to school. But there is one thing I do pay attention to, and that's when cheap teams get high picks and then go the other way. As HeyStu will probably write in his next Tuesday article, The Kansas City Royals selected high school 3rd baseman Mike Moustakas, whom A-hole and overall Douchebag of the Planet evil agent Scott Boras has been touting that Moustakas "is the best high school hitter since Alex Rodriquez."

"Oh ****!," said the Kansas City Royals. Your # 1 pick got compared to the baseball player with the most overpaid contract ever. Rumors have it he'll want around $10 million to sign. More rumors says Moustakas is intent on going to USC after the Royals ignored him the past two months. Now this is interesting. Do you take the money and sign with the Royals, knowing you probably won't ever see the post-season, or do you go to school and get an education? Logic says "take the money, idiot. You'll be set for life. You go to college to get jobs like that." There's always the possibility of injuries in college, flunking out or lacking general intelligence to where you can't earn a degree. But what if I'm the Royals? Do I bother essentially wasting all that huge money to the point that some snot-nosed high schooler would be the 2nd highest Royal on the payroll? And this being baseball, where you can't trade draft picks.

There is certain wisdom behind not signing # 1 picks. As I recall, the White Sox used their 1997 # 1 on a certain crud-pitcher by the name of Jeff Weaver, who demanded something about $5 million, which was completely ridiculous at the time. Time passes, Detroit picks him at # 1 in 1998, and so on forth to a crummy career. The Royals could use that money saved on Moustakas and fix up the team. Ignoring your # 1's outrageous demands is a free "Get-out-of-Hell" card, and given the hit-and-miss nature of # 1 picks, it probably won't hurt the team via attendance in the future, tho it does look lazy and like you're screwing over your fans. Should baseball invoke a 'best interests for the game' clause? If they really could, there'd be a salary cap to stop the Yankees in their quest for the first $300 million payroll. And judging by the revenue reports on the new Yankee stadium, it's quite possible and realistic.