Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
We’ve all heard the phrase “ never put off until tomorrow what you can do today ,” yet all of us are guilty of, at least a little, procrastination. We can even find excuses to procrastinate: “We’re just waiting for the right moment.” “You cannot rush creativity.” “Huh? I didn’t know I was supposed to do that. You meant today?” (Said by every teenager at some point, right?) The point of this post is not to bash procrastination. (I’m sure it can be useful, at times.) This post is focused specifically on the downside of one of the biggest procrastination blunders in Major League Baseball history and how we can learn from it. Please permit some baseball history: On December 2, 1991, the New York Mets made Bobby Bonilla the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball, when he signed a five-year, $29 million contract. His production began to fade so he was traded, in 1995, and in the following years bounced to a couple more teams before being tr...