Commitment

A lengthy meeting detained me at church until late in the night. More importantly it detained many men who volunteered to be there who also had to get up for work the next day. One leaned over to me at one point in the meeting and said that he had to wake up in five hours for work. Another man had to drive five hours that night to catch a flight in the morning because the next day he was flying to DC to have dinner with the president of the United States. The commitment of these men to the work of the Church reminds me that something substantial occurs here.

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Speaking of commitment, some misguided people like to point to the New York Yankees as the Evil Empire because of their proclivity for spending exorbitant amounts of money on their franchise. Most recently the attempted trade for Johan Santana of the Twins exemplifies their fiscal excess. The Twins don't want to spend 20-25 million a year on their star pitcher who will be a free agent next year and so they are trying to trade him for young, cheap prospects before they lose him. Ironically the owner of the Twins has more money than the Yankees' owner, but he doesn't want to spend it on his franchise. So who really is an evil owner? The one who is committed to working inside the current rules to give his fans the best team possible or the one who will not spend the money to put a winner on the field for his fans? The way I see it, Steinbrenner would be the leader who would stay until midnight or would at least pay people to stay until midnight because of his commitment.