Did you see the article about the Royals pitcher, Gil Meche, who decided that he wasn’t pitching well enough to justify the $12 million he was being paid—and so he retired and voluntarily declined to accept any further salary?

“When I signed my contract, my main goal was to earn it,” Meche said this week by phone from Lafayette, La. “Once I started to realize I wasn’t earning my money, I felt bad. I was making a crazy amount of money for not even pitching. Honestly, I didn’t feel like I deserved it. I didn’t want to have those feelings again. …Making that amount of money from a team that’s already given me over $40 million for my life and for my kids, it just wasn’t the right thing to do.””

Who says athletes can’t be role models? The Royals ought to give this guy a job…