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To: reaper who wrote (179017)	7/10/2002 11:34:30 PM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

reaper, I remember once in the late 1980s when the players went on strike and caught hell from the public, Pete Incaviglia (low average, power hitting, mediocre fielding outfielder that bounced around) tried to explain the reason for the strike like this: "A lot of people think we're all making $3 million every year and are just greedy jocks. What the public doesn't realize is that most of us only make about $500k." And the salary bubble was born. <G> The AVERAGE salary is now over a million. jpgill

To: reaper who wrote (179017)	7/11/2002 6:12:16 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<<and the first thing that they are going to do is stop paying a gazillion dollars to buy sports>> Ain't gonna happen. They pay up and pass it on to us. It might as well be a tax. Call your cable/satellite company and ask them for a price on the package without ESPN, Fox Sports, etc. Pro sports are every bit as socialized and subsidized as we were always told they were in the Soviet Union & E.Germany. Just ask Dubya how he got a stadium for the Strangers.