Rant #1,379: The Haves and the Have Nots

This is another sports-related Rant, so if that turns you off, see you tomorrow.

Yes, Alex Rodriguez of my beloved New York Yankees has written an apology to the fans and everyone else he hurt with his whole PED escapade.

He actually hand-wrote a note apologizing for his indiscretions.

And you know what? For a guy making $20 million a year, his handwriting is as bad as mine is.

But also, I think that what he said is very, very true.

He said something to the effect that, "There are people who won't believe anything I say at this point, and not only do I understand that, but I am going to have to live with that, too."

Look, you know the Yankees put him up to all this so their upcoming spring training won't become as much of a media circus as it could be. It won't stop it from being "The Alex Rodriguez Show," but it might temper it a bit.

And that is all the Yankees want ... in addition to needing Rodriguez at be at least a semblance of the player who they signed a few years ago to such an astronomical salary, which he is owed not just for this year, but for next and the year after that, too.

Then we move on to athletes who are the "have nots," so to speak, but they are one step away from being the "haves."

This season, with my beloved New York Knicks being such a terrible team, I have had the opportunity to watch not only their putrid games, but the games of their minor league team, the Westchester Knicks.

The Westchester Knicks play in the NBA Developmental League, or the D-League for short.

This is the NBA's own minor league for basketball, where they have players who either aren't ready for the big time because of talent, attitude or lack of skills, or are NBA castoffs looking for one last chance.

The teams play in places like Erie and other out of the way places, and that includes Westchester.

The MSG Network has been showing some of the Westchester team's games, and I have taken in a few.

The Knicks' D-League team is as bad as the major league team, having won only nine times this season, and like their big time counterpart, are in last place in their division, having lost last night after leading by 18 points late in the third quarter.

But however horrible the Westchester team is, the games are fun.

These are guys who basically don't have reputations, don't have entourages, and probably, don't have the skills to make it big in the NBA, but they are looking for that one chance to get into the big time.

The games are fast paced, energetic, and while the crowds are generally sparse--the Westchester team is one of the few teams in the league that draws relatively big crowds--the games are fun to watch.

Every once in a while, players do get promoted to the parent team, and this happened with the Knicks' Langston Galloway, who earned his way onto the Madison Square Garden floor with both his energetic play and the lack of talent on the parent squad.

So, in one column, I have talked about an athlete making $20 million a year and athletes who probably make no more than $500 a month.

Which athletes seem more attractive to you?