It may be to the best long-term interest of Major-League Baseball if no team will sign up Alex Rodriguez. He is not worth the money that his agent, Scott Boras, will demand. Besides, his astronomical salary will come at the expense of baseball fans in form of higher prices for game tickets, food and drinks and parking at the baseball stadium.

The Angels or the Cubs or the Dodgers or the Mets or the Yankees, or for that matter, any Major-League team, should not sign up A-Rod. It will be just a waste of money for any team to sign him up. Perhaps we, baseball fans, should boycott the team (and its sponsors and advertisers) that hires the mercenary of a player that is A-Rod. No baseball player is worth $30-million per season on a 10-year contract.

We will begin tonight to promote this idea in our web site, the www.mabuhayradio.com.

Our motley group of baseball fans sponsored the Filipino-American Community Night at the Dodgers Stadium in 2006 and 2007. And we are now planning for a bigger Filipino community event for the 2008 baseball season. We have, therefore, the organization to begin this Baseball Revolution, at least in Southern California.

Perhaps Major-League Baseball should realize that there are community organizations that have the people and a modest number of consumers to spearhead the proposed boycott of the team that signs up A-Rod. It is time to teach A-Rod and Scott Boras the lesson that baseball, without the fans, cannot survive even if there are a hundred players with the caliber of Alex Rodriguez playing America’s pastime. # # #