Wasn't Barry holding-out not too many years ago because some other outfielder was making more millions than him? Whether Barry personally uses the race card or others pull it for him, I can't stand the guy because he doesn't respect the game IMHO. As for RICK's assertion than every slice of mankind has it's idiots playing "whoa is me", please refer to the following.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it has been accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties, as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be, and that somehow has been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race, or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.
from The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck