Sammy Sosa Should Stay Home

After months of talking about making a comeback to the Major Leagues former slugger Sammy Sosa began training yesterday in his home town of San Pedro de Macrois, Dominican Republic. He worked out at a training complex owned and operated by the Hiroshima Carp of the Japanese Central League. Sosa looked physically fit as he took batting practice sending 15 balls out of the park. He also showed good speed running down fly balls in the outfield. Sosa has 588 career home runs but has not played in the Major Leagues since 2005. After playing poorly with the Baltimore Orioles and being apart of the steroid scandal, the Washington Nationals were the only team that offered him a contract for the 2006 season. The contract however was not guaranteed and stated providing he made the team he would earn only $500,000, a far cry from the 17,000,000 he earned the previous season in Baltimore. Sosa considered this pay cut an insulting slap in the face and although he also received an offer from a team in the Japanese League, he decided to retire from baseball.

Sosa spent 2006 living the high life. He took his family on two European vacations. He threw enormous party's at his beach front mansion in the Dominican Republic for every holiday occasion. His 38th birthday party however was the biggest, the guest list of over 1000 people (not all invited showed) included several star athletes, Hollywood stars, Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton and Dominican government leaders. However Sammy Sosa has baseball in his blood and no matter how many party's he throws or have many vacations he takes, he still as a burning desire to play baseball and become the 5th player in history to hit 600 home runs. Every star athlete like Michael Jordan and Evander Holyfield think they have one more moment of glory coming to them. Sosa however like Jordan and Holyfield does not. Sosa should stay home, because he will only embarrass himself if he returns in the Major Leagues.