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Lets put our salaries in perspective.

CubsFan41CubsFan41 Posts: 513 ✭✭
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Interesting here. Actually, a little bit depressing.

salary crunch
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  • megatronmegatron Posts: 955
    Interesting link. Thanks

    We have to work all those years to make one year's salary for those sports stars listed because quite frankly, no one cares about us peons. We have become a nation obsessed with sports and pay the ticket prices and watch the television games to afford players and coaches these salaries.

    So while some of us struggle to pay the mortgage and feed the kids, one of these illiterate goons will be robbed of $200K in cash he left in his hotel room.

    Welcome to life....no one said it would be fair.
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yea, but at least our manufacturing base in the US is solid, jobs are plentiful, and we're not borrowing money and buying products and oil from socialist/communist countries...so we can easily afford to pay our sports stars outrageous salaries such as this.
  • ddfamfddfamf Posts: 507 ✭✭
    Political satire will not be tolerated on this board - please return your head to the sand and don't concern your self with political musings.

    We know what's best for you.

    Trust us.
  • megatronmegatron Posts: 955


    << <i>Political satire will not be tolerated on this board - please return your head to the sand and don't concern your self with political musings.

    We know what's best for you.

    Trust us. >>



    Seriously, though. I could not even buy tickets to a Cubs game this year for the family since the prices skyrocketed. Even before the
    "Total Convenience Fee for 4 seats (includes 12% amusement tax and 9% sales tax)", the price for 4 tickets was over $200 for the "regular people" section. I did not even want to proceed to the next screen to see what the Ticketmaster order and processing fee was.

    Oh, and did I mention that game was against the Pirates?

    I think there is another topic on this, so I will leave this one alone.
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  • MPeterMPeter Posts: 568
    Come on people, can't you see right through this? It's just an easy way for ESPN to gather demographic information from people going to their website. It's a good thing that I make the same amount of money as Peppers, because I know I only have to work 16 games this next year.
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    Mister Peppers is paid the same for making a half sack as I make in a year.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Mister Peppers is paid the same for making a half sack as I make in a year. >>



    All I can say Bill ... is GOD BLESS YOU! ($750,000.00 per year AIN'T TOO BAD!) lol
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  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭
    Read lines below.

    Its only going to get better.
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  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭


    << <i><< Mister Peppers is paid the same for making a half sack as I make in a year. >>



    All I can say Bill ... is GOD BLESS YOU! ($750,000.00 per year AIN'T TOO BAD!) lol >>



    That was $75,000. I misread it. He makes the same for 1/20th of a sack that I make in a year.
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    HAHA! Lincecum makes more for 2 strikeouts and 1.5 innings than I make in a year.
  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    Mark Teixeira needs 2.5 at-bats....
  • BlacklabelsocietyBlacklabelsociety Posts: 1,033
    i have not gone to a MLB game since the 94 strike.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,048 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Political satire will not be tolerated on this board - please return your head to the sand and don't concern your self with political musings.

    We know what's best for you.

    Trust us. >>



    But that is putting the salaries in perspective like the OP stated. The government spends too much, sports teams spend too much, and consumers spend too much such as with credit card debt and buying homes they cannot afford - it's all interelated.

    Babe Ruth was worth $80,000 a year - he was an icon. Michael Jordan was worth the money. But Julius Peppers being paid 91 million?...I mean are they kidding me?...What's next? It's pathetically ridiculous and it's an illustration of our society which has gotten way out of control with spending.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jerry Grote never made more than $200,000 a season..


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  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    In a free market every one earns what they are worth

    Julius Peppers is a better pass rusher than I am, so he earns more money. I feel fortunate to still earn thousands of dollars despite so many fewer sacks
    Tom
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,048 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In a free market every one earns what they are worth

    Julius Peppers is a better pass rusher than I am, so he earns more money. I feel fortunate to still earn thousands of dollars despite so many fewer sacks >>



    He's not worth it, he's not even close to being worth it...the NFL like the government feels they have a license to print money...the NFL milks the fans and the government milks the taxpayers...and it just keeps getting worse.

    I think I'm gonna join the NFL "tea party" LOL
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Peppers is a very talented player, but his less than stellar work ethic calls into question the wisdom of this investment by the Bears, especially with such a large part of the salary guaranteed money.


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  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358


    << <i>He's not worth it, he's not even close to being worth it...the NFL like the government feels they have a license to print money...the NFL milks the fans and the government milks the taxpayers...and it just keeps getting worse >>



    The only way to avoid paying income taxes is to drop out of the workforce. The only way to avoid paying property taxes is to be homeless. To not support the NFL requires a lot smaller hardship.

    If the NFL or the Chicago Bears pay employees more money than they help generate, they will go out of business. So long as the customers hand over so much of their money that the league feels as if it is virtually printing money, the employees that help generate the business are absolutely worth their salaries
    Tom
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,048 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>He's not worth it, he's not even close to being worth it...the NFL like the government feels they have a license to print money...the NFL milks the fans and the government milks the taxpayers...and it just keeps getting worse >>



    The only way to avoid paying income taxes is to drop out of the workforce. The only way to avoid paying property taxes is to be homeless. To not support the NFL requires a lot smaller hardship.

    If the NFL or the Chicago Bears pay employees more money than they help generate, they will go out of business. So long as the customers hand over so much of their money that the league feels as if it is virtually printing money, the employees that help generate the business are absolutely worth their salaries >>



    When the Roman Gladiators went out of business and the Roman Empire fell, I wonder how much aureus the star gladiators were being paid at that time?
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bottom line I dont make Chit but Im much much much more appreaciative for what I got than the majority of these guys..
  • bsidegrvebsidegrve Posts: 687
    All that money and still 78% of the NFL players go bankrupt within 2 years of retirement.

    Makes me sick...
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,689 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>All that money and still 78% of the NFL players go bankrupt within 2 years of retirement.

    Makes me sick... >>



    Because they are S T U P I D! Alot of these run of the mill guys buy these extravagent houses that have a 5K+ a month mortgage attached to it that they cant afford a few years after their NFL retirement. Its so ridiculas its not even funny..

  • Tap4blackTap4black Posts: 214
    To quote my favorite Patrick Ewing statement.

    "I make alot of money, but I spend alot of money............."

    That is all I ever needed to know right there.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    My dad was a finance manager of a car dealership in the late 70's and early 80's. One of the cars he financed was for an All-Pro football player that all of you would know immediately. The car was bought in the prime of this player's career. It was repoed in less than a year.
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