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Well...
He CAN physically start; he did it last year. It just may be *more difficult*, and I don't denigrate him for that at all.
I still maintain that part of what's driving his interest in closing is the financial aspect, the $/effort requirement, and playing the odds for a lucrative career.
That opinion of mine is a nod to Doc's opinion of his (general) softness as a dominant pitcher, ala Gil Meche. If you think RJ pitches his guts out for an extra million, you're wrong. He pitches that way because he has to. It's how he's wired.
Lets say you're a musician, and you love writing music for film and video. This is what you're trained to do, this is what you're good at. You could write music for independent films, documentaries, feature-length dramas. Or, you could write music for.... TV commercials.
You're much more likely to have a profitable career doing TV commercials. There are more jobs out there; it's easier; you need less skill because you don't need to sustain & develop motifs for 2 hours - you only have to do it for 30 seconds. And you can make very nearly as much money as a top-flight film scorer.
So if you're a young composer, and you're success as a film scorer has been spotty and is uncertain, but you've done some really great commercials, well.... you can see how doing jingles might become more attractive.
/analogy