Most of the world is obsessed with some sort of balls. Many times its personal. Not being much of a fan of any activity involving a single ball (even Highballs I do not stop at just one - you dirty minds) I did indulge myself by watching some baseball this weekend. You see the local bay area team is in the World Series (another misnomer for what constitutes Americans playing in America, although I am told they have bought and sold foreign born players).
Amazing to see the players get rock star treatment for use of their ball and socket, which is to say they make millions playing ball. And get paraded on the street if they pick up the World Series Trophy.
Now that is one way to make your millions.
Or you can play ball a different way - figuratively and be the executive of a major corporation in America or some other country. In America you at least are morally and legally obliged to disclose that you made millions. Whether you pay tax on that is another matter entirely. Here you play ball with politicos and environmentalists and other Special Interest Groups whose interest may or may not be in making their own millions.
Sometimes I read that the CEO of such and such corporation took a $1 salary yet ended up making millions after the books closed for the year. If that is not a neat magic trick without using a ball I do not know what is. These executives do have to bring their spouse to a variety of balls however. Some of them do not and are apparently promptly dispatched from their million dollar payday jobs. Some also end up with a ball and chain for failure to avoid getting caught when the government busts their balls. The latter may or may not have any bearing on what ballgames they played when in office.
In other countries you can play ball (literally and or figuratively) and make millions and not even have to or want to disclose it. But that is a different ball game.
A good example is Bollywood!
It is said that opposites attract meaning people with contrary viewpoint sometimes find chemistry to be together. But I'm referring to a modern twist where people are merely attracted towards a common place because their uber communication device aka smart phone is about to die. The charging station. From airports to hotel lobbies or even bathrooms, when in need they are attracted to this power outlet like moths to a flame or a junkie to a needle. A whole new business of supplying these hyper connected folks is now born whose lifesaver product is a backup charge. Asian tourists perpetually carry a phone sized battery pack stuck to their latest Apple phone updating their status to folks in Hong Kong or Shanghai or Bangalore as they pose for selfies with weird facial expressions and fingers pointed out in a letter V. Vain? PS: I dis'charged' my blogger duties making this insightful observation as my phone is about to breathe it's last and my flight gets call...
Baseball appears safer than cricket, where guys are now going to jail for match-fixing quite regularly. Cycling is another dangerous sport, going by the fate of the 'man on the moon'.
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