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Gotta love the entertainers

By Jim Baker
ESPN Insider

Thursday, January 8, 2004

We are often reminded that baseball is a business rather than a game. We are also told it is part of the entertainment business -- the same line of work that includes fire eating, naked Shakespeare and playing in Bay City Rollers tribute bands -- although far more lucrative for the participants than those pursuits. If such is the case, then aren't we all -- myself included -- a little too hung up on things like "value" and "success?" What about style? Doesn't that count for something? ...

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