A big disgrace!

A holiday that I would have wanted to take a day off and sleep all the way, but I woke up at around 10AM awaken with a mysterious door bell (no one was at door when I rushed to the entrance).

I went to my office to start working from around 11AM, but it was surely not a good feeling to see that the plunge in the global markets were even going further. Another sad and frustrating news I saw during my working hours was the money-mad ball club had ousted my favorite teams chance to make a come back winning the pennant. Oh how bad can you get than the slipping global market, losing the top spot after a 13 games lead earlier in the season!

the Tigers were still leading and the Giants tied with their opponents in the earlier stage of the matches...

When you look at the team roster and today's starters, you would understand how bad this conclusion is to the younger generation. (Oh, I'll take this back if you would agree that earning money is the most important thing in life. I bet there's tons of people like that so I bet you're a big fan of the champions!)

Today's starters (+stopper) of the teams along with their earnings (figure of 10,000 yen)

Tigers
1 CF Akahoshi 18,000
2 3B Sekimoto 5,000
3 1B Arai 12,300
4 LF Kanemoto 55,000
5 SS Toritani 9,100
6 RF Lin 4,500
7 C Yano 19,000
8 2B Hirano 4,600
9 P Shimoyanagi 17,500
(RP Fujikawa) 28,000
Salary total: 173,000

Giants
1 CF Suzuki 3,000
2 2B Kimura 6,500
3 3B Ogasawara 38,000
4 LF Ramirez 50,000
5 1B Lee 60,000
6 RF Kamei 1,400
7 C Abe 24,000
8 SS Sakamoto 850
9 P Greisinger 25,000
(RP Kroon) 30,000
Salary total: 238,750

Everybody knows Ogasawara, Ramirez, Lee were all the number one clean-up batters for Fighters, Swallows, and the Marines respectively who later all struggled substantially without their central figure. Greisinger was the top pitcher of the Swallows and Kroon was the Bay Stars' ace reliever.
The Tigers are also blamed of stripping "Aniki" Kanemoto in 2003 and his apprentice Arai this year (who eagerly participated in the Beijing Olympics finding a broken bone after the Games coinciding with the major slip his team experieced both in China and in Japan), both from the Hiroshima Carp which surprisingly almost made it to the playoffs finishing 4th in the league. But can we compare this to a greedy team who stripped the hopes of 4 teams so easily with lucrative gold!?
The starting pitchers were also significant as Shimoyanagi was an old one looking for a better payment with the Fighters who were not hesitant to let him go with a shaky record in 2002 and after six years with the Tigers, he is now considered as the hopeful "around 40" trio along with "Aniki" and Yano who was traded from the Dragons in 1997, giving hope to the elders facing "restructuring" because of the age factor, in the business world.
It was a miracle for the greedy team to win the pennant from 13 games behind, but it has also taught the young ones that money is everything and in that way the winner has shown how Capitalism really triumphs even in the sports world like the European football teams. So to win, you should use your money and strip the others of their hopes so they would dare not to counter you!
I'm starting to feel like the Iranian President always attacking the money-mad Capitalists and Zionists as I really feel it is a disgrace to lose to such a team that symbolizes greed... Well what can I say!?
"Death to them... Wipe them off the map... Their days are limited..."
Sadly, I feel quite vacant, and that's where I might disagree with the chief exectutive of the Islamic Republic...
It's only sports, that's all I could say. It's only baseball...