Romney Pay

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Can't we all agree any sports player is well over payed ? Hell if you like the game enough you will play it for 1/4 of what you make.

define overpaid.

They are the best at what they do, so they should be paid accordingly. The teams evaluate ticket sales, food sales, advertising, all kinds of factors to determine how much they can afford to pay a player, and then decide what that player is worth. Some are worth the money, some dont pan out.

but as long as the teams are making money, i wouldnt say overpaid. Overpaid would be someone that is causing a business to go bankrupt because paying their salary makes them uncompetitive with the other "teams".......................like GM workers :P

If every team had a "albert pujols" for $10 million a year, then yes, the Angels "overpaid him". But hes arguably the best player of the last 10 years, so he gets paid a lot of money.

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define overpaid.

The teams evaluate ticket sales, food sales, advertising, all kinds of factors to determine how much they can afford to pay a player, and then decide what that player is worth. Some are worth the money, some dont pan out.

Right here, Mike. It really boils down to the fans fault that sports personnel are paid so much. I agree with the "overpaid" term. I can afford to go to sporting events, but I don't because it's not worth the money to me. I could not justify paying $70 (for decent seats) to see a baseball game. Countless people probably think the same thing about players being paid so much. Yet no one will take a stand against it. If all the fans would actually act accordingly, these team owners might reconsider their stance. You have these athletes that want to quit playing because their $2mil/game salary isn't enough to feed their lifestyle. If fans would stop going to games, stop buying merchandise and stop monetarily supporting the teams, prices would come down. It's really sad, too, because most of the players aren't playing for the love of the game. Their playing for the love of the contract. Later, QD.

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Right here, Mike. It really boils down to the fans fault that sports personnel are paid so much. I agree with the "overpaid" term. I can afford to go to sporting events, but I don't because it's not worth the money to me. I could not justify paying $70 (for decent seats) to see a baseball game. Countless people probably think the same thing about players being paid so much. Yet no one will take a stand against it. If all the fans would actually act accordingly, these team owners might reconsider their stance. You have these athletes that want to quit playing because their $2mil/game salary isn't enough to feed their lifestyle. If fans would stop going to games, stop buying merchandise and stop monetarily supporting the teams, prices would come down. It's really sad, too, because most of the players aren't playing for the love of the game. Their playing for the love of the contract. Later, QD.

youre half right.

YOu dont see value in it, but too many people still do. I sympathize with you because some games are just astronomical to go see. I bought tickets to see the braves vs yankees, because the braves had a holiday pack deal. 5 games, 2 tickets to each game. I got lower level 1st base side seats for $42 a seat for the Yankees and Cardinals. THe other 3 games i chose $17 seats because i dont even really care if i go to those games (brewers, phillies, and i forget the last ones).

It came out to around $240 for 2 seats, for 5 games. It was cheaper to buy 5 games worth of tickets to get the lower level seats for the yankees than it was for just buying 2 yankees tickets alone (Estimates are the seats will be around $200+ for anything lower level for yankees).

ive paid as high as $300 for NFC Semi Championship game last year. id never do it again.

If you look around you can find really good deals you just have to look. I dont recall tickets ever being much cheaper than they are now. I think the lower levels have probably increased, but if you arent willing to pay for them now, you werent paying for them 10 years ago either