Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

I've thought this. How true! One baseball player on a team makes $20 million a year or more and the doctor who saved my life by performing my nephrectomy laperscopically might make a few hundred thousand a year. Injustice in my book.

theaverlo Loc: Iowa

Very, very true!

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Amen to that!

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I could not agree more. I find it odd that folks get so caught up in watching professional sports. Professional sports are 'Corporations'. They have Owners and Stockholders as well as everything all corporations have as a business with the purpose of making a profit.

Do people get excited when one cardboard box corporation outsells another or produces more boxes faster? Of course not, yet they do about one corporate sports team against another.

It makes more sense to me to be excited about your local high school sports team competing for they play for the love of the sport with nothing at stake other than the pride of winning and display of sportsmanship.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

While all of that is certainly true it’s also true all the millions that go to athletes and entertainers is given to them by their fans voluntarily.
Go figure. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Yes, and some were tax exempt: Reference Fact Check
They gave up the tax exempt status when they discovered that their records were open to public and the average person could see their books (multiple news articles)
They don't want us to know how much profit they make...

Agree on supporting local high school teams since the colleges are now in it for the $$$ (multiple news articles)...

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

NEED isn’t part of the equation - it’s all about supply and demand + disposable income. The only need involved - especially in regard to pro sports - is the billionaire jock sniffer owner’s need to pump up his ego with championship pennants and trophies provided by his outrageously enriched employees.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I like to be entertained. I enjoy attending professional sports events, concerts, watching movies and TV. I feel they enhance my life, and I wouldn't give them up because some money is being made.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

..."some" money... ??? $400 million for 10 years is way more than "some" money. For what they do, is an athlete worth over 50 times more than someone who could save your life? I personally, don't think so. I can barely afford to take my family to a ball game and have food and souvenirs. Way out of line in my estimation.

National Park

I agree that the salaries of many professional athletes is ridiculous, but that's because the public is willing to pay ridiculous amounts to watch them play. Professional athletes are entertainers. Fans are willing to pay incredible amounts for tickets and food and drink at sports events, just as they are willing to do at Taylor Swift concerts. If some of the money didn't go to the athletes, it would stay in the owners' pockets. There is plenty of money to go around, so it might as well be spread around to the athletes. Until 40,000 people are paying top prices to watch a doctor do quadruple bypass surgery, or to watch a plumber put in a new toilet or watch somebody paint a house, surgeons and plumbers and painters aren't going to make the kind of money that professional athletes make

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

A contract is between a willing seller and a willing buyer. The athletes contracts were not with fans , they were with the team/ business owners

What the big deal ? Just trying to find something to whine about ?

To me there are much more import issues.

Bill 45

I am on your side with this one.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

Believe it or not, I defended Aaron Judge's latest contract for $400 million (or whatever it was) in this column. The point I'm trying to make is that I believe the salaries for athletes are way too high (in my estimation) and heading higher. There's no stopping it, I know that, but I think it's ridiculous. People were calling for Judge to take less if he really liked being a Yankee...blah,blah,blah. And I said that he's certainly entitled to whatever he can get, which he is, I stick by that. This was meant to be a light-hearted entry. I didn't expect to get smacked for it. I can take it. Bottom line... athletes make too much money for what they do. I'll gladly pay for a top notch surgeon for anyone in my family, but it's been years since I've taken the family to a game (it would be upwards of a thousand dollars for the 5 of us.No thanks.) I don't whine, I'm simply stating my beliefs. Of course there are more important issues. What a ridiculous statement! I happened to see this online and thought I'd pass it on. Most of the replies were quite civil until this was banished to the "Attic".