{"id":39954,"date":"2010-02-10T18:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39954"},"modified":"2015-02-10T19:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:42:52","slug":"39954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39954","title":{"rendered":"sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last Monday night\u00a0in October [27<\/a>] in 1986 I was awoken from\u00a0a deep sleep\u00a0by the mixed sounds of human shouting,\u00a0car horning, beer cans scorched and bottles throw onto the ground.<\/p>\n

World War III? I briefly thought. When I regained my full consciousness, I nixed the war theory. USA doesn’t really have a habit of hosting war on her soil. I listened closely, the human voice was cheers in English, but mostly\u00a0were Spanish.<\/p>\n

I am a good sleeper, soon afterward I felt asleep again. The following when I went to school, I saw\u00a0the littered streets and the atmosphere was like Mardi Gras, light and festival.\u00a0Mets had won the World Series, in game 7, the deciding game.<\/p>\n

The classroom was filled with excitement and the teacher spent better part of the time talking shops, aka baseball with the student.<\/p>\n

I was bewildered.<\/p>\n

It was my first education in the capitalism. Sport 101 and Darryl Strawberry who hit a homer in the last game came into my view. He would be forever the Mr. Baseball for me. I soon learned, that the baseballers, and athletes in the major league, namely, football, basketball and a slightly in distance the ice hockey, they make fortune. Their salary is astronomical. I was shocked. How could that be? They are just athletes. In a FOB mind (Fresh off the Boat), the scientists should be making that type of income.<\/p>\n