Posted on 05/14/2019 12:19:01 PM PDT by Jagermonster
“As a Browns fan, you HAVE been overpaying your athletes. /sarc”
Not me, I picked that handle a LONG time ago. My fan status is not strong. Games are more expensive than I care to support.
I tend to watch High School and some College now.
But, I digress. The athletes should make whatever they can get paid. If fans spend $400 for 2 people to go see a regular season game, they can look in the mirror when they complain about player wages.
Well said.
its not my place to dictate how much someone else earns at a legal and legitimate job. The market will pay what it pays.
I won’t pay $200 or more to see a game, but that’s just me.
It IS worth looking at the subsidies and benefits taxpayers and governments give to sporting franchises everywhere.
The whole purpose of sports is to permit people to
train to be the best that they can be.
I cheer on the (HS/College/Olympics) players
to encourage them, and because it is exciting.
I find Pro Sports weird and unnecessary otherwise.
I barely pay attention to Pro Football,
and not all all to Pro Baseball/Basketball.
The entire Pro Sports enterprise monolith could collapse
and I’d barely notice it.
But i’m just one guy, YMMV
True, but fans value it way too much, imho Fans are responsible for high salaries. If we don't watch, or go, salaries will come back to earth.
It’s like what I read on all of those Airplane mags.
You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Athletes are making exactly as much money as they should make - supply, demand, etc.
Isn’t that the idea?
Short answer, yes. Long answer, it is whatever the market will bear and it looks like we have reached that point. They have to make money to pay those outrageous salaries somehow. People are starting to balk at the price of tickets, parking, hot dogs and beer. Networks are declining so they will not pony up the money for broadcast rights. It will be a rude awakening for the owners.....
For the record, I don't think athletes make too much money, with some notable exceptions. Johnny Manziel's stint with the Browns comes to mind.
Absolutely. Bread and Circuses. Been so for thousands of years.
Who cares?
It is no one’s business how much a non-government person gets paid!
My answer would be no, since many of them seem to be broke, a few years after retiring. s/
The athletes, and actors in Hollywood, and singers, will continue to get megabucks as long as suckers are willing to pay them to do it.
And many of the suckers are right here in FR. And they will continue to spout their offensive ideologies as long as we continue to pay them.
No offense but I don’t believe you or anyone of modest means wouldnturn down 5-10-50-or 100 million per for reasons you have cited.
I get what you’re saying about living in a shit hole but with that kind of money you can live anywhere in the city you like and even in Baltimore there are very upscale areas and hotels. Even if you stayed for 2-3 yrs and paid the highest tax rate you would walk away with more than enough for you and your family to live very comfortably.
But what you pose has nothing to do with some saying athletes should not be paid the truly huge money some get. If you could hit 325, hit 40 hr’s and drive in 100 runs per season you would be offered 25-30 million per yr.
Would you turn it down?
Watch less sports (or watch sports that are less monetized) and don’t pay to go to events.
Not always envy or disdain, sometimes anger. I played football all the way through high school. Love the game and love watching it. When I got back from my first deployment to Iraq and sat down to watch a pro football game I got very angry at the fact that these guys were making millions playing a game while my guys and I were making $30,000-$60,000 serving our country and risking our lives. Doesn’t seem right.
Though thinking about I wasn’t so mad at the players but society in general about that state of affairs. It went away with time and my understanding that capitalism is the best economic system every invented by man, even if it’s not logical at times.
Yes they’re over paid. But the average sports fan is addicted and can’t control their finances.
There's one big caveat on that -- you are fiscally responsible enough to bank that salary and not blow it on cars, houses, women, booze, dope, frequent huge parties for your "friends," or gambling. Most of the guys who come into the big bucks seem unable to resist that siren call and are broke forthwith.
Short answer, Nope.
My 2¢, willing buyer, willing seller.
For the full might of the government to tell them what can be a fair price satisfies the dictionary definition of fascism, private ownership of the means of production, with totalitarian government control.
YMMV...
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