it's upsurd how athletes get paid, many peole are fans of sports just to get out of the house and enjoy a game, now they got to have deeper wallets just to watch overpaid pigs do "FAKE" work, it's all about greed nowadays and the fans are stuck with the dirty stick getting it up the rear every time they pay a ticket that they have to work sooo many hours at work for, don't forget the 140 dollar shoes and the 200 dollar jersey that comes with it too!
2007-11-19 22:53:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
People should just refuse to pay that much for tickets.
Just say "I'll pay $20 for them"
2007-11-19 22:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Robert D hit the nail on the head.
1) baseball rakes in so much of our money, a lot of it because of the players and one of the best players in the league should get paid the most.
2) As long as you are willing to pay for the ticket, pay for the items that are advertised (so the companies can get back their money), you are supporting the over inflation.
3) for Yankee fans, they want to win. They have said, with their actions, we don't care if we pay $50-$100-$200 for a ticket, as long as you put a team that can win the world series on the field. So, teams like the yankees pay top dollar for the players they feel will get them there.
What it comes down to is how the fans can bring the cost of going to a baseball game down so that the owners and the players and the tax system doesn't make so much money for it to be unreasonable to go to games, but makes enough that they just don't pack up.
However, the centre of control is not manageable from the fan's side, so it's easy to win.
Additionally, while you may say "I am not going for that amount" or "I will give you $20 for a ticket, that's it", someone right behind you is ok paying $90.
As long as that happens, they will ask you to move aside for people that aren't complaining and you have lost your power.
2007-11-19 23:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by brettj666 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Baseball has been a profession since 1869. This is nothing new, and the economics are not at all out-of-alignment.
The current presidential salary is $400,000/year. Aside from the fact that the job provides so many perks (residence, office space, airplane, cars, helicopters, security, world-class meals, etc.) that the salary is merely a scorekeeping placeholder (the office is the highest-paid job in the federal government, which is, one supposes, a worthwhile distinction regardless of occupant), tell me this incumbent has done ANYTHING to merit that much pay.
Or look at the recent rash of retiring CEOs -- retiring because they've been forced out, in disgrace, for being monumental failures at their jobs, in some cases leading to BILLIONS in losses -- walking away with golden -- ha! platinum -- packages worth tens, hundreds of millions of dollars, in cash and stock and options and benefits. Why pound on Alex Rodriguez (now confirmed as coming off his third AL MVP season) when ex-Merrill Lynch doofus Stanley O'Neal, who managed to blow $8.4 billion IN JUST THE THIRD QUARTER and is probably responsible for half the foreclosed homes in your neighborhood, just walked away with some $161 million? That's some pretty long green to be handing over from a concern that just lost billions. (And O'Neal's trashing of ML is one of the worst, but there's plenty of others.)
In business -- and baseball is a business -- you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Go, go, ARod. Take the Steinbrenners for all you can.
2007-11-20 01:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take it this sort you pay 33 year previous A R O D 35 million money a year. The 40 two year previous version gets 15 million a year. lots greater useful deal for them than the single they gave Clemens. as properly take inflation under consideration, 25 million money a year in 10 years may be the de facto time-honored for a familiar third baser with some capability.
2016-10-02 02:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called capitalism. The product (baseball) generates an enormous amount of revenue. The players, backed by a strong (albiet sometimes annoying) union, realize they are at the core of why baseball makes so much money. Therefore the owners pay their workers whatever the market will bear. When the money dries up, the salaries will head south too.
2007-11-19 23:54:23 · answer #5 · answered by blueyeznj 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know what upsurd means, but he's getting paid that because somebody is dumb enough to pay it.
2007-11-20 03:32:10 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baseball is to blame for that. No player is worth the millions they are sopposedly earning. For some to be worth that much that would almost have to carry the team by themselves.
2007-11-20 03:34:25 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he's such a clutch performer in October ... no that can't be it.
It's because $25-million/year wasn't enough for him.
Hope all those Yankee fans enjoy paying that extra couple million to A-Rod for him to hit under .200 in October!
2007-11-19 23:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by D D 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Apparently because he's a great player. I just can't see paying any athlete that amount of money for ONE YEAR! Ridiculous if you ask me.
2007-11-20 00:32:38 · answer #9 · answered by Let's go Red Sox! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because he is such a great performer in the regular season and teams do not realize he has no talent in the postseason.
Alex Rodriguez is hitting .279 in his career postseason and hitting .315 in his career regular season. He only has 6 homeruns in his career 24 postseason games...I would say he's nothing but a mess..but he helps teams get to the playoffs, and helps them get 90+ wins, but he doesn't seem to help them get to the World Series. I mean, cmon A-rod stop whining about not winning a World Series, cause if you want one, your going to have to perform in one.
2007-11-19 23:15:01 · answer #10 · answered by Chris Stewart 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋