ANOTHER SPORTS TRAGEDY: THE SHATTERING, UNTOLD COST OF THE DREAM
Mike Campbell Dead at 61
First-Round Flameout Exposes Baseball’s GRIND-AND-DISCARD CULTURE
Published
December 20, 2025
7:41 AM PST
ANOTHER FORMER MLB PLAYER is GONE at just 61 — and the hollow, corporate “tributes” from the Seattle Mariners ring HORRIBLY HOLLOW. Mike Campbell, a local kid drafted to save a franchise, was used as a HUMAN TRADING CHIP and cast aside before his 25th birthday. His DEATH AT HOME, cause unknown, is a DARK REMINDER of what happens AFTER the lights go out.
Teams like the Mariners PROFIT from selling hope, drafting young men like Campbell with million-dollar arms. But when the “asset” depreciates? They’re DUMPED, forgotten in a cold business transaction. Campbell was the EXPENDABLE PIECE shipped to Montreal for Randy Johnson. He sacrificed his arm, his youth, for a moment in the spotlight, only to be left with… a candy apple stand.
This is NOT just a sad obituary. This is an INDICTMENT. How many more Mike Campbells are out there, their bodies broken and their names erased, while the billion-dollar league churns out its next disposable prospect? His post-baseball life selling Shiskaberry’s wasn’t a cute second act—it was a DAMNING TESTAMENT to a system that extracts everything and gives NOTHING back.
The league’s “heartfelt” social media posts are INSULTING HYPOCRISY. They built this machine. They create these ghosts. When will we STOP CHEERING and start asking the HARSH QUESTION: how many dreams must be consumed before we admit the American pastime is a meat grinder?
Campbell’s story should TERRIFY every parent with a talented child. The dream they’re selling is a LIE. The price is your future, and the memorial is a brief, soulless tweet from the very entity that threw you away.
He was 61.
ANOTHER CASUALTY OF THE GAME. How many more will there be?
Related articles
