A Fair Trade

Professional sports is entertainment.  People pay money to watch extraordinary athletes play and perform. Whether the athlete can hit the ball 500 feet, rush for 200 yards, get into a fight before the game even starts, or soar above the competition to dunk the ball, these athletes get paid to play.

But what many don't remember is that professional sports is also a business.  There are "behind the scenes" people that make the wheels turn.  They staff the team.  They figure out how to market the players.  They even trade pieces, almost like trading a piece of the company for the piece of another company.

Jim Duquette knows all about that.  Duquette is a former New York Mets general manager and Baltimore Orioles executive.  He knows the ins and outs of trades and business of baseball.  So when his 10 year old daughter needed a kidney transplant, he knew what was being asked.  In baseball vocabulary, this was a "trade" situation.  Lindsey, his daughter, had lived without full kidney function for over a year.  Jim loves his daughter as any father does.  So the trade was really a "no brainer."  Jim would say, "I will give you my kidney.  You will get better and make me happy."  A true win-win situation.

The transplant went well and both father and daughter are recovering.  Wishes for a continued and quick recovery!

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