Roger Clemens in pinstripes. New Comiskey Park. If there's one aspect of professional sports that's absolutely impossible to stomach, though, it's that burned-out bromide that sports figures want to belch at every signing, even as they scrawl their name on the dotted line for more zeroes than most of us will see in 20 years worth of paychecks. It is as infuriating a statement as you get in sports, all because of its bald-faced falsity. It's not about the money.
Players spout it all the time.
Really rich owners, especially in baseball, live and spend by it. Even coaches, who seemed to be above it until lately, have taken to mouthing the mantra. It's always about the money. It's not always just about the money. But the money is certainly in there somewhere, causing hard feelings, making life tough, generally mucking things up.