Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 02, 2006

Transcript:

"Did you know that while the average major league baseball player makes about $2,300,000 a year, the average starting teacher's salary is $29,000?" "That means a baseball player makes in two games what it takes that teacher an entire year to earn." "How 'bout we all agree on one day a year where we take the money we would have spent at a game and give it to our kid's teacher?" "Don't you think that's a better use of about $150?" "Yo, comrade... That's called communism and we defeated it in the war of... Uh... 1812." "The Cold War." "Yes... It was quite cold during the War of 1812." "Whoa. We're missing baseball."