- The teams/owners are subsidized not the players.
That's important why to the point I am trying to make?
Because it shows how the players salaries aren't really subsidized. I don't think that its legitimate to use the excuse that there is some government subsidy somewhere, to give the subsidizer control over that money and what can be done with it forever.
Tim, you are known to say some silly things but this one is over top.....and you have said it several times. You think about what you wrote up above and then come back and tell me why it's BS.
In any case remove all the subsidies and the superstars will still make massive salaries.
How do you know that? Do you have any idea how much is subidized? Most stadiums are running between $500 - 1 billion to build. Do you know how much the monthly nut is on a $700 million building? Do the math!
You seemed to find those salaries to be an injustice.
They are a poor reflection of the priorities of this society. They show a level of corruption and hedonistic excess that doesn't bode well for our future.
Would you be fine if they where cut by ten or twenty percent?
Not an injustice....but a negative reflection on our culture.
OK, so its not an injustice but your upset about it as "a negative reflection on our culture". Wouldn't it still be such a negative reflection in your opinion if A-Rod made $20mil, or Jeter made $15mil?
Do you really think its reasonable to pay someone $20 million to play a game and the president of the US only $400K?
"How would you structure things so they don't?"
The owners pay for the building of the stadiums.
That would be good, but it wouldn't change the owners control of the sport.
It would sure cut down on the size of the salaries.......that is my goal.
Most likely it would not be allowed to merge due to issues re. monopolies.
Look up the AFL, the AAFC, the American and National Leagues, the ABA.
Those mergers were allowed at a different time in this country. They wouldn't happen now.....people have gotten too savvy.
American Idol has proven there is considerable undiscovered talent in the US. Given that perspective, I have to believe there are great athletes who are never seen by scouts.
How many people have made it big from American Idol?
Most of them are making a nice living now.....maybe they are not all big as you put it but they are successful. And more are making it big every day. Jennifer Hudson just won the Golden Glob for Dreamgirls. Since American Idol she had been doing cabarets until she got the part in Dreamgirls. So its likely the career of other contestants will take off at some future point as well.
A handful, maybe the winners, and a few others.
My point is that I suspect there are a lot more star athletes out there then we have been led to believe. The recruiting method for athletes is only slightly better structured than the one for entertainers. American Idol has made it clear that when you formalize the system, you can churn out star quality entertainers on a regular basis. And lets understand that Amer. Idol is still not a very structured recruiting system. Each season they go around to just a few cities in the US and see thousands of people over a few days. That is by no means a quality recruitment program. In a similar way, an athlete has to depend on word of mouth or press clippings to get checked out by a scout. I suspect there are number of athletes that are overlooked. And the greater the supply, the lower the salaries........sports would not be the exclusive club it is now.
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