This whole Red Sox faux-boycott business was/is disturbing.

Here is the gist of it:

Boston is scheduled to open baseball’s regular season in Japan with two games against Oakland on March 25-26. Red Sox players are getting paid $40,000 apiece and voted unanimously to boycott the trip today after learning that the team’s coaches, training staff and equipment managers weren’t going to be paid.

You know, the old arguement of “they are getting paid to play baseball!” is kind of old.

This stretches beyond that point of contention — even though I still think it is completely valid.

The fact is that these guys are getting to go to Japan! It would be a chance of a lifetime for many of us peasants. When did the chance to experience a different culture become such a burdensome chore?

Why isn’t anyone talking about this?

It just proves that sports is dumbing down the culture of America.

If nothing else, maybe this will serve as bad karma for the rest of the season.

I mean, hey, how else can you explain this video of Reid Engel dropping a routine fly ball?

The Blue Jays cleared the bases on the play, which gave them a meaningless 4-3 spring training win.

But was it really meaningless?