athletes

Hi,
I'd like to bring up some of the salaries of professional athletes. In case you didn't hear, Jason Spezza (of the Ottawa Senators hockey team) just signed a contract extension of $49 million for 7 years! So, an average of $7 million per year. Not even that though. They get the summers off. 7 million for 82 games over 8 months. Or, if they go deep into the playoffs, it could be up to 110 games over 10 months. Let's do some math, shall we?... the average game is 3 hours, so the maximum "work" per year is 330 hours, (which works out to about two months of work for the average person)... anyway, $7 000 000 / 330 hours = over $23 000 per hour! Imagine that! I could make my year's salary in less than an hour and a half! If I'd only chosen a different career path...

If I didn't love hockey, I'd be furious! But look at baseball. That's way worse. I used to like baseball, but with these whiny "athletes" playing make it unbearable. Like, Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees was upset that he was "only" offered $150 million instead of the $350 million that he wanted. I read this article on a pitcher once. They totally broke down his salary and figured that he averages like 7 thousand dollars per pitch, or something like that.

And there's still starving people and poverty in the world, in North America... what the hell's this world coming to?

beijos