Baseball

The thing about more money is if the public would BOYCOTT MLB players & owners would have no choice but to settle for less. As fars as actor are concerned , a good movie is more entertaining than any baseball game. I grew up in the midwest, I was a Cincinatti Reds fan as a boy. Pete Rose & Johnny Bench were just starting out. They only made about $10,000 a year then, they played baseball because they loved the game and they were good enough to make the team.
If players would play for the love of the game it would be differant, but they play for the money. Money is not everything in this world. So if they strike ,I and alot of other people will boycot baseball!!!!

By Chuck

Money's not everything....

but it is a lot. Are you really telling me that if the boss came to you and said he'd like to give you a raise, but the service you provide would cost his customers more, that you would decline? If so, your a better man than I. By the way, do you go to ''work'' for the ''love'' of it. They are just lucky to play a ''game'' and get paid a lot for it. Remember, if we could all play ball at their level, we wouldn't pay at all.

By Bill H.

My 2 cents worth...

I would be too happy to make more money than I do now, but not unreal millions. I could never in good conscience be able to keep it all to myself. I'd give lots to charity and family and friends. I'd feel guilty having that much money. I do think that Chuck has a point in being tired of hearing that 21 million isn't enough for a guy to play ball. I know that they have injuries to plan for that could end their career early... and have to practice and all that... but jeez, when is it enough. Its sickening. Much like the big CEOs of the world. How much money is enough for a person? Its completely rediculous to me that someone should bring home 250 million in 5 years ... BRING HOME. That's what the dude who is running Disney got (a reported 767 million in 5 years time, even though the company's stock is failing and they are laying off thousands of workers)... that much is excessive and greedy. Its sick how greedy people are, how a person could not feel guilty for having so much and so many more have so little. I don't get it. Which, I suppose, is the reason I will probably never be rich. My friend, whose parents are loaded to the gills said ''that's why rich people stay rich, they don't share their money or give it away'' I don't fault people for their hard work or for being rich, I just don't agree with the excessively greedy people out there.

By po ole me

some figures...

A person starting to work at age 21 and retiring at age, say 66 starting salary $30,000 (wouldn't we all have liked to start there) and never recieving a raise would gross $1,350,000 over the working lifetime. A person working for 10 years at $100,000 would gross $1,000,000. It costs about $100,000 to raise a child through college. Life is expensive! If a person made $250,000 for 25 years he would gross $6,250,000. While it is true that the rich stay rich by hanging on to their money, many, many are philanthropists. Bill Gates, for instance, has given away many millions, and so have many others. We just don't hear about it. On the personal level, however, many of these folks are extraordinarily stingy when it comes to paying employees, etc. They will drive an extra 10 miles to get coffee 10 cents off with a coupon! In any case, money is all relative. Should sports players make the stupid amount of money they make? Probably not. Whether they deserve it or not doesn't really matter. As long as there are people stupid enough to pay people insane amounts of money for less than admirable return, it will go on. They're going to put themselves out of business the same way that Eastern Airlines did when they went on strike. I'd like to think we are all worth that much money in the workplace. Most of us will not live nearly as well once we retire. And, many of these players squander their money and spend their retirement years as paupers. Some invest wisely, though.
I like baseball alot. I'd hate to see it go away. But, think about this. The owners want to save money. When the players strike, the owners get their wish--they save alot in the salaries that are cut til the strike is over. Then the players get some of their concessions. In the end, there is no real winner. Just the fans lose.
So, what is the point of all of this? There really isn't one. Draw your own conclusion. Just some interesting math.