Are Pro Athletes paid too much money?

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I don’t know if this thread belongs here but here goes anyway.

Do you think that professional sports athletes are paid way too much? Esp. baseball players.

Do you think its sinful of the athletes to get paid this amount of money?

My opinion is yes to the first question but no to the second one. I base that on the following hypothetical situation. Lets say you want to start up selling computers. Lets say you get good staff and market it right and millions of people agree and want to buy it. Well at the end of the year you look at your financial records and see you sold millions (billions possibly). Now what you do with your money is another matter but its not a sin to successfully sell a marketable product at a reasonable price.

If I had the talent of a major league baseball player and a team wanted me to play for them and said they would agree to pay 2, 3, 5 million, should I say, “Sorry Mr. X but that would be wrong please pay me only…”?

I don’t think so:D

However, if the players association decided that they aren’t getting enough millions and said lets strike for more money than what they really need then yes I believe that would sinful to strike for more millions.
 
Hi,

Yes they make entirely too much money. Teachers should get paid the highest salary:D

If they get greedy with how much they want to get paid then yes it is sinful.
Just my :twocents:
Can you tell I was a teacher;)
 
ALLFORHIM said:
Hi,

Yes they make entirely too much money. Teachers should get paid the highest salary:D

If they get greedy with how much they want to get paid then yes it is sinful.
Just my :twocents:
Can you tell I was a teacher;)
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As a teacher, I have to agree with you!
 
I don’t think its sinful, but it is disgusting that mere entertainers(even the bad ones) get paid so much and those who actually better the country have to work much harder to get still no where near the same amount.(nurses, emts, firefighters, maybe even doctors, social workers)

Sports athletes are just lucky I have no power in their salaries. They’d be getting huge pay cuts.
 
childofmary1143 said:
I don’t know if this thread belongs here but here goes anyway.

Do you think that professional sports athletes are paid way too much? Esp. baseball players.

Do you think its sinful of the athletes to get paid this amount of money?

My opinion is yes to the first question but no to the second one. I base that on the following hypothetical situation. Lets say you want to start up selling computers. Lets say you get good staff and market it right and millions of people agree and want to buy it. Well at the end of the year you look at your financial records and see you sold millions (billions possibly). Now what you do with your money is another matter but its not a sin to successfully sell a marketable product at a reasonable price.

If I had the talent of a major league baseball player and a team wanted me to play for them and said they would agree to pay 2, 3, 5 million, should I say, “Sorry Mr. X but that would be wrong please pay me only…”?

I don’t think so:D

However, if the players association decided that they aren’t getting enough millions and said lets strike for more money than what they really need then yes I believe that would sinful to strike for more millions.
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Athletes make too much money.

But. . . . . if a team generates enough money to pay a player the big bucks, why shouldn’t he get it? Why should the owners make all the money?

Can you tell I’m jealous?
 
homewardbound said:
I don’t think its sinful, but it is disgusting that mere entertainers(even the bad ones) get paid so much and those who actually better the country have to work much harder to get still no where near the same amount.(nurses, emts, firefighters, maybe even doctors, social workers)

Sports athletes are just lucky I have no power in their salaries. They’d be getting huge pay cuts.
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Do you think maybe this is a reflection on the priorities of the American people?
 
Pro Athletes get big money because fans willingly pay big money to attend games, watch the events on tv, buy jerseys etc. If the athletes weren’t getting millions, then the owners would be getting even more millions. The players are who the fans pay to see, the players should get paid the big bucks. It’s called capitalism.
Don’t know if we have the right priorities, but think about how many jobs are provided by pro-sports; concession workers, groundskeepers, sales clerks, sports writers. And the advertising in stadiums and on T.V. increases sales of companies that employ millions of people, allowing them to hire more workers.
 
If the topic were about the symptoms of greed and selfishness among players, I would definately agree that there is too much of that; however, I do not agree players make “too much” money.

Sports players are skilled entertainers; in society entertainment is highly valued because the majority of time that people have is focused on work. So the market puts high prices on their performances and they earn what the market allows…
 
If they are getting paid that much, I’ll take some comfort in knowing that even though they are talented, they’ve put a lot of work into what they do. One doesn’t get to that position without years and years of effort. And most at best still don’t make all that much money.

The sad thing is though, with more and more money, more and more problems creep in. There is a temptation to cheat. If you take a poll of a lot of young athletes they might be tempted to say, I’d rather go for the gold, even if it means harming my health. That’s great at that time, but once you really start worrying about caring for a family, they might think differently.

There are temptations to use performance enhancers. Ahh what’s steriods going to do, well you take organs for granted till one starts to fail. They can be quite addicting too. Never mind physically, if you think well I’ll take this, and do better. Well what happens next time, when your pride and paycheck is on the line. You might just do it, be it to keep from getting cut or to try to be the star.

Then you have young people and/or their parents throwing all this effort into their career as a sports professional that is fragil at best with injury, platue and burnout. You’ve got to hope as they chase this dream, that they are smart enough, to learn something to fall back on.

I guess in itself, I don’t have a problem with the high paychecks. It’s just not good if the system leaves a trail of lives behind that are used and abused. I hope there are good parents, coaches, and admisastrations that take some care to help people transition out. But with more money the problems tend to get worse.
 
ALotLessThumb said:
What society didn’t have entertainment as a high priority?
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I guess I was not very articulate in presenting my opinion. Excuse. What I mean is that the adulation paid and the attention given to some of these “stars” whether they be in sports or the entertainment industry, is way out of line. I enjoy sports as much as the next guy, I am the sports “nut” in our house, but I don’t use the sports standouts as role models. Same with the entertainment folks. Most of the ones I see are hardly what one would want to pattern his/ her life after.

As far as how much they are paid, that is the business of the team owners, etc. Do I wish I made that much money? Sure. Do I envy them? No.
 
A thing is worth what a willing buyer will offer and a willing seller will accept. There’s no room in that equation for a third party – we do not have the right or power to dictate what atheletes or carpenters make.

While I, personally, have never undestood the fascination with watching someone else play a game, there is a lot of money in professional sports. Should not those who do the work – shoot the hoops, carry the ball, hit the homers, get their fair share? Of should it all be kept by the owners, managers and others who do nothing to actually win the games?
 
All I know is that I wish the Pacers would figure out the right athletes to pay and pay them whatever it took to win a championship.

Lord knows we’ve found enough of the wrong ones…
 
vern_humphrey said:
So the team owners, promoters and other fat cats should keep more of the money and give less to the players?😉
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Players say that if a team makes money then it should share its profits (over and above their paid salary) with the players as they helped to create a winning team.

This to me is pure and utter greed and in my opinion sinful.

I wonder, if the players feel that way would they accept a pay cut in their salary if their team loses money?

If they want some of the profits of the team then they should go and be an owner of a team. Pay half a billion dollars (at least) on a stadium that will have a lifespan of 30 years, pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year for at least the first five years with no profit whatsoever and then when you do make a profit, fight with greedy selfish players who say that your blood sweat and tears are theirs.
 
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