Alex Rodriguez And Overpaid Athletes

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  1. CarpeDiem

    CarpeDiem Well-Known Member

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    So true...
     
  2. .Zeldafan

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    Lol oprah
     
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    well that is an awful lot of money ... all i know is he must be one hell of a player to be making that much money
     
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    imo i dont even think hes one of the best players out there i think he maybe ranked in 50-100
     
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    You'll never hear me claim athletes don't work hard for their money, but in general they get paid way to much. Most top athletes get an even bigger income from advertising then they get from their teams. none the less if i was a top athlete i'd do the exact same thing so who am i to judge :D
     
  6. AG Mountaineer

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    Maybe so, but to be honest, being that I love baseball, I'd be willing to play simply for a house and 3 meals a day.
     
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    I love how people bitch about people bitching about money...

    B/C if someone offered you multimillions to do something you loved...Im sure that youd decline...or ask for less...dont be retarded.
    Money runs the world...not love...sports...friends...family...nothing...money. Get what you can while you're here and enjoy.
     
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    Not if you're earning five zillion dollars a minute
     
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    wow i wish i made 252$ million in a few years. that would be amazing. for playing baseball, its really ridiculous.
     
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    imo doctors should get more money, they do good in the world, what do athletes do? entertain/role model...gasp....
     
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    Yankees just signed another contract with A-Rod!
     
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    hell nah no one deserves 25 million dollars or even close to that...unless u actually save peoples lives or some thing.

    i mean seriously what is the world coming to when some kids can hit a baseball and gets paid more than an honored graduate or a doctor who actually went to college for like 10 years after highschool...then some kid comes out of nowhere and shoots hoops,or hits a ball and gets paid over 25 times what a doctor gets paid just to entertain people. thats how sick this world is now.i sure as hell wouldnt pay someone 25 million dollars or even a million to entertain me...its pathetic.
     
  14. AG Mountaineer

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    No of course I wouldn't decline, but that's not the point I'm making. The point(s) I'm making is why has it gottan so out of hand, and how could anyone consider $25 million a year underpaid?! That's whats ridiculous.
     
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    Rediculous. A-Rod doesn't deserve that kind of money. There are plenty of players out there better than he is. And THEY don't even deserve that kind of money. And why would he want more? Oh Ya!! Because he lead that over-paid Yankees team right to the World Series!! Oh Wait!!!! They didn't make it that far did they?!?! LOL. If anything, they should give him his walking papers, and send that 25 mil to the red sox to share with each other for actually winning the World Series. ;)
     

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