A player gets traded for another player. A different player gets sent down to the minors for a couple in favor of another player being called up. A free agent is offered a 4 year-$24 million deal from a certain team. A coach is fired, another one is hired. The trade deadline comes and goes, but no moves are made even though the team is right in the middle of the playoff chase. Who makes all these moves, all these decisions? Well yes, the owner has the final say of approval or disapproval, but ultimately is the general manager that makes all these moves, comes up with creative trades to better the team, and finds a coach to lead the team. This is what I want to do when I’m older.

Ever since I was a little kid, maybe 5 or 6 years old, I’ve been in love with sports. Not just a couple, but many of them. Nearly my entire life I’ve been following football, soccer, hockey, basketball, tennis, baseball. I’ve even been following a couple of college sports, college basketball and college football. With all this love that I have for sports, I’ve always wondered what if I could control a team. What if I could be the one making those decisions of who to trade, who to sign, and who to fire. I think it would be the perfect job for me, and I think I’d do very well. I’m always keeping up with as many players as I possibly can in each sport, including the up and coming youngsters that each gm must pay attention to. I’m always looking around the leagues to see what moves my favorite team could make, and am always looking to see if the salary and contracts could match up.

I do plan on pursuing this dream of mine, but what sport would I go after the hardest to get in to? Well take out tennis because there’s no general manger there and take out soccer because the coach really makes the final decisions on those things. That leaves football, hockey, basketball, and baseball that I would go after. As I said earlier though, I’m always keeping up with the up and coming players and I’m always paying attention to young players. I also love paying attention to the minor leagues and how the top prospects are performing there. I’d definitely love to deal with prospects, and if I was gm of a rebuilding team, try to stack up as many top prospects as I can.  That’s why I’d ultimately love to be the general manager of a hockey team in the NHL or a baseball team in the MLB. Those two sports, those two leagues, both have a big emphasis on prospects and have quite a few minor teams. I feel that because of that, a general manager in those sports would have the most decisions to make and the most players to worry about, but also the most options if a move was to be made.

As I have stated, I’d love to become gm of a professional team, mainly either in the MLB or NHL, but I’d be happy in the NFL or NBA as well. I’m going to keep studying and working hard in hopes of achieving my goal, but for now I’ll just continue to play fantasy sports on Yahoo! and ESPN.