Lesson 5: Cut Underperforming, Overpaid Veterans

Every team has older veterans whom the fans love but who can no longer catch or hit a ball. The General Manager has a tough call to make. Do they cut them and let new talent take the field, even though they will lose money and their fans will be unhappy, or do they let them take the field, thereby taking away an opportunity from another player and causing the team to lose? If there were a solely Christian MLB team run by a church, it would have highly paid, broken old veterans and lose every game; but, it would have a small and devoted fan base, along with a well developed theology of suffering to make it all seem spiritual. Teams, organizations, and churches have to cut the underperforming, overpaid veterans who are hurting the team. Even if they remain leaders, they have to be given another position without a salary and go find another job to pay the bills. The Mariners fielded this team a few years back and although the fans loved the broken-down, overpaid old lineup, the team could not have won a wiffle ball tournament at a retirement home. The old GM lost his job and the new GM fired every one of them and started over. To be continued.