BLOG: THE "FORTNITE" PROBLEM

Does David Price realize that the Red Sox are paying him $30 million a year to pitch and to win baseball games not win games of "Fortnite?"

If there was any doubt before there isn't any more of who the leader in the clubhouse is. It's David Price.  Times are changing. The kids are here and are dominating, but so, too, are their habits - their gaming habits. This next generation of players grew up in front of screens. Playing video games in front of computer screens, on iPhones, iPads, you name it these kids have probably played in front of it and it's not a good thing. 

"Fortnite" may be a good for team-bonding, but when your paying these professional athletes millions of dollars, you want them to be in peak physical condition.  You don't expect one of your top pitchers to miss a start because of carpal tunnel syndrome - something that is typically diagnosed in people in assembly-line work, where constant repetitive hand movements is the norm. 

You don't expect to see it in elite professional athletes where their body is their lively-hood and to be able to perform at a high level they have to take of it and excessive gaming is not part of training. Remember the old saying "healthy body, healthy mind."

Tom Brady isn't still playing football at the ripe age 41 because he spends four hours a day playing his "PlayStation." Say what you want about the TB12 Method, but he's spending that time working on avoiding those type of chronic/nagging injuries and working on his pliability and dexterity. If he does spend time in front of the monitors, it's most likely watching game film of himself to improve. 

But player's manager, Alex Cora - now to be known as "Manager Alex" going forward - believes it is has nothing to do with playing "Fortnite" and that the diagnosis of carpel tunnel is a "good thing." 

Alex Cora was asked if carpal tunnel for David Price has to do with playing Fortnite. He’ll sit down with Price to talk about things but he indicated he thinks it’s from baseball activities

— Christopher Smith (@SmittyOnMLB) May 9, 2018

Of course you don't "Manager Alex" because that means you'd have to, not only. answer to Boston media and Sox fans, but you'd also have to confront Price. This is just scrapping the surface of a bigger problem - the game habits affecting the performance of their star players on the field.

Right now, Red Sox Nation, your second best pitcher pulled himself out of TWO starts against your rival because of a habit of a high schooler and the rest of your team is following.