Differing Ideas of Respect

MY MAN, ROBINSON CANO, has left my team, the New York Yankees, because they were only willing to pay him one hundred and seventy five million dollars, and some other team was willing to offer him two hundred and forty million dollars. For the record, I woulda done what he done. Who wouldn't've? Everybody's happy, until Robby, sitting front and center at the press conference announcing his new relationship with is new baseball team, suddenly to suddenly blurt out that he left the Yankees because they failed to respect him. Suddenly, I'm no longer happy. Suddenly, my eyes are rolling. Just what in the hell do great baseball players think respect is, anyway? One of them thinks its a ten year two hundred forty million dollar contract. You could buy my respect for a paltry hundred and seventy mil, or even less. Some other people might have other thoughts about what respect is. A person working for Wal mart and being paid seven twenty five an hour perhpas thinks respect starts at fifteen an hour. My, how our perceptions are shaped by our personal circumstances. And likewise our values, and beliefs.Do the folks over at Wal mart, ouside in the rain asking for a living wage perhaps think that Robinson Cano's idea of respect is a bit skewed? Its all relative, one might say. Respect means different things to differetn people, and Robinson Cano needs different respect than somebody working at Wal Mart. And anybody who says that is, in a larger sense, full of it. Robinson Cano is only one hard hook slide aand a couple of paternity suits away from Wal mart worker respect. That's a mighty thin line. And whoever is on whichever side of that line probably deserves about the same amount of respect.