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Originally Posted by Ilow
I find this to be unnecessarily harsh.
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I agree.
There are a lot of athletes who ply their trade, even today in a world where even crap athletes can get paid a small fortune, for a relatively small or even non-existant amount of money. While they'd all love to make more, certainly, there are tons of guys playing semi-pro hockey, soccer, baseball, grinding away on the mini-tours in golf and other sports, who know they have no hope of making it big but who love what they are doing and accept they'd make more working at Home Depot or selling cars at the local Chevy dealership, but keep grinding away anyway.
Even looking at amateur athletes - real amateurs who get fuck all - who train dozens of hours a week prepping for a marathon, triathlon, etc. They could be making money at their regular jobs, working OT, a second job, taking additional training, but do what they do for love of competing.
Yeah, you'll take the money if you can get it, of course, but their are enough people who do it for other passions to make this an arguement and it should be dismissed by so casually by staff.