Getting your player ready...
From camp to camp, the stories are virtually the same: Baseball players, many of them multimillionaires, are short on cash because the government froze their accounts with Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is being investigated for an $8 billion investment fraud. Philadelphia Phillies reliever Scott Eyre is among those who say they’ve had accounts frozen. “If we paid our bills, we wouldn’t have any money,” Eyre said. “I invested in (Stanford) three years ago — thought it was too good to be true — and it was.” The Phillies advanced Eyre an undisclosed amount of his $2 million salary Wednesday. The Associated Press
