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Minor League Baseball Below is an advertisement. 12/17/2008
10:00 AM ET Perspective: Trying times Many Minor Leaguers take
offseason odd jobs to make ends meet White Sox prospect Cole
Armstrong runs clinics and gives private lessons in the
offseason. (Rich Darby)   These are trying times.  Everyone is
trying to make ends meet. Trying to stay optimistic about the
future. Trying to be grateful for the good things in our lives.
So after last week's Baseball Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, the
one place synonymous with lavish excess, it's easy to assume
every single guy who plays baseball for a living is raking in a
seven-figure salary.  But the majority of pro baseball players
are Minor Leaguers who, for the most part, are nowhere near that
same economic stratosphere of their big league brethren.  All of
them have their eyes on that big prize and those who get to the
big leagues, even briefly, will enjoy an outstanding payday.
But in the meantime, ther