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To: TimF who wrote (320322)	1/12/2007 1:43:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576768

I am most familiar with the Mariners.....very few players drop out after a couple of years of play.....partly because baseball does the least damage to an athlete's body. Perhaps very few players drop out after just a few years because of injury. I agree baseball (despite having 10 times as many games) isn't as likely to give you serious long term injuries as football. But both the NFL and major league baseball have a lot of marginal players, who get a shot and don't make it, they might attend an NFL camp and sit on the bench for a season but they get cut later and never manage to make it on a team again (or for MLB they might get a call up, and play in a few games but never stick with a major league roster). That's why the average length of career is low, even if the typical player who does make it has a longer career then the very low average. That's fine. Let's assume the average career of a professional baseball player is three years. In three years, they make more money then most people make in a life time. Why is that acceptable to you?