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Originally Posted by pan6467
I'm sorry, teams honor their contracts. If a player knows he can get cut next season then he better play his ass off.
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Then how come players get cut two years into six/seven-year contracts? That is not honoring contracts. Also, you are ignoring those who get cut due to injury. If you got hurt on the job, do you think your company could get away with simply firing you?
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The numbers do matter, the disparity does matter. Ask the Royals who will never make enough to contend because they can't afford to keep the players they developed.
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You do understand the differences between baseball and football, correct?
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The leagues have to understand they are all subsidies and they ALL need to make money.
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I'm not sure what this means.
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To say the players make the teams their money is only partially true....... If a team can't contend because they have too much in payroll to players, no matter who those players are the fans won't come.
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Then the teams made poor decisions in signing players. Alos, this goes back to the difference between baseball and football.
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Ask the Rangers when they signed ARod. Ask Boston soon, ask the Yankees.
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Ask anyone on the street about the differences between baseball and football.
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You have to sign someone with marquee value hoping to draw fans in but you can't break the bank and unfortunately to get a player that can truly help you have to break the bank to the point you can't compete.
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That is completely incorrect, ESPECIALLY in football.
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Very few teams if any can have a high payroll and make money.
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Football has a salary cap.
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AND AGAIN THE OWNERS DESERVE TO MAKE MONEY.... NOT JUST THE PLAYERS.
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But do they deserve to be greedy at the expense of the players?
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It's the same as any businees, the workers are the ones making the product NOT the owners, yet the owners have the right to make money and make a profit..... Why is that not acceptable for people who defend athletes? It's the same concept.... the owners have to pay for insurance, upkeep, advertising, front office, sales, and so on.
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You are correct in that the owners should be allowed to make money. I have said nothing different, especially considering THAT isn't the issue.
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Far more than just salaries involved and yet people still believe the athletes can break the bank..... yet, elsewhere workers shouldn't make that much.
Teachers, police, firemen, are far more important than athletes.... why don't we pay them what they deserve? At any time taxes can be cut and they lose their jobs.
(God, I'm sounding like a republican now.)
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Differences between professional sports and the real world.
Unless people are voluntaraly paying $50 a pop to watch teachers teach or firefighters fight fires, there is absolutely no corrollation.
And you are definately NOT sounding like a Republican, at least not a conservative one.