Pro Baseball Players Average Above $3 Million a Year!

[soonercruiser]

So, here we are all in a tizzy about taxes, the deficit, healthcare for the masses, and nearly 10% unemployment.
**While the average pay of a professional baseball player is over $3 Million a year!!!
:O
http://www.newsday.com/sports/mlb-s-average-salary-finishes-over-3-million-1.2538871?qr=1

And, a bunch of you dummies are worried about doctors being millionaires!!???
DUH!
How many of us support professional athletes salaries by watching or attending??
Like abortion for convenience, it just goes to show your values.
Just Sayin'.

[Tony]

The average salary of Major League Baseball players is over $3 million per year.

The average salary of professional baseball players is nowhere near that.

[royalfan5]

There are a lot more people capable of being Doctors than High Level Major League Baseball players.

[walkoffsooner]

My nephew plays pro ball and only makes 1 million with incentives. But he only comes in every once in awhile and steals a base or pinch runs.

[Ike]

If you were to zero out every MLB players salary and use that money to employ someone at the median worker salary of 50,000, you'd reduce unemployment by less than 0.1 percent.


What's the average yearly pay of the bankers that got us into this mess in the first place? I also bet there are a lot more of them.

[Ike]

Total MLB salaries for players would work out to something like 2.25 billion.

Goldman Sachs set aside 16.7 billion for compensation this year. That's just one firm.

[yermom]

i hate baseball as much as the next guy, but it's hard to really care about this

now soccer players, **** those guys

[soonerinkaty]

Sometimes, I wish I didn't know **** like that^

Pertaining to Ike's post.

[MR2-Sooner86]

Yup, and they go on strike because they don't get paid enough for playing a kids game. Maybe, just maybe, when you got that scholarship to go to college you could have...I don't know, used it?

[tommieharris91]

So, here we are all in a tizzy about taxes, the deficit, healthcare for the masses, and nearly 10% unemployment.
**While the average pay of a professional baseball player is over $3 Million a year!!!
:O
http://www.newsday.com/sports/mlb-s-average-salary-finishes-over-3-million-1.2538871?qr=1

And, a bunch of you dummies are worried about doctors being millionaires!!???
DUH!
How many of us support professional athletes salaries by watching or attending??
Like abortion for convenience, it just goes to show your values.
Just Sayin'.

Free-market hating socialist. :rolleyes:

[XingTheRubicon]

Capitalism sucks when you have no talent.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I remember when baseball gave out the first 3 million dollar a year contract..I believe it was to Roger Clemens in the early 90s..Kirby Puckett was also early on that list

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

There are a lot more people capable of being Doctors than High Level Major League Baseball players.Ya s'pose that's why the public prefers to watch baseball over heart surgery and doctor's appointments.

[AlboSooner]

the premise of this thread reeks of communism. didn't know OP was a closet commie.

[Veritas]

Like abortion for convenience, it just goes to show your values.
Just Sayin'.
No, whining about other people's success is what does that.
Just Sayin'.

[badger]

Capitalism sucks when you have no talent.

Everyone is special ;)

[The]

****ing Free Markets, how do they work?

[C O R N * D O G]

i make chump change...mostly cuz ima chump.

[2121Sooner]

If you are pissed off about it there is a simple solution.

Learn how to hit a 96 mile an hour slider and join the club.

Lemme know how that works out for ya.....

[AlboSooner]

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/joseph-stalin-1.jpg

Stalin approves of this thread

[XingTheRubicon]

If you are pissed off about it there is a simple solution.

Learn how to hit a 96 mile an hour slider and join the club.

Lemme know how that works out for ya.....


no one throws a 96 mph slider


I get your point though

[soonercruiser]

No, whining about other people's success is what does that.
Just Sayin'.

Problem Veritas is....
The socialist libs pis* and moan about every business person or successful person's income in the country, and want to raise their taxes!
All the Demoncrats and libs want to do is redistribute income from successful people.

However, the premise of my post was....with all the so-called important things we want, like healthcare and lower unepmployment, we waste much more $$ than enough to pay for it.
:rolleyes:

[sooner ngintunr]

Problem Veritas is....
The socialist libs pis* and moan about every business person or successful person's income in the country, and want to raise their taxes!
All the Demoncrats and libs want to do is redistribute income from successful people.

However, the premise of my post was....with all the so-called important things we want, like healthcare and lower unepmployment, we waste much more $$ than enough to pay for it.
:rolleyes:

So you're sayin we should tax the rich people even more so that they can't afford to buy OU season tix? They should buy HC for other people instead? got it.

**** your vision of 'merica.
:pop:

[StoopTroup]

Osama Bin Laden doesn't play Baseball

[soonercruiser]

So you're sayin we should tax the rich people even more so that they can't afford to buy OU season tix? They should buy HC for other people instead? got it.

**** your vision of 'merica.
:pop:

Too dense to explain!
:rolleyes:

[StoopTroup]

I think there is a huge difference between rich and wealthy. Also....why aren't the Pubs in Congress doing anything about this Inheritance Tax deal before 12/31/10?

[sooner ngintunr]

Too dense to explain!
:rolleyes:

Too stupid to be funny!:rolleyes:

[StoopTroup]

$3 million per year Pro Baseball Player>$3 million per year Trust Fund Baby

[walkoffsooner]

And the insurance and retirement plan is the best in the world.

[SCOUT]

I don't understand most of this thread. If you are the absolute best at what you do, enough to warrant 10's of thousands of people wanting to watch you every day, why aren't you worth that amount?

Each stadium sells close to a million dollars per game. 82 home games plus ad revenue, merchandise, tv contracts etc. 100 mill as a total team salary sounds like a bargain.

Using the accepted standard of 60% of business being payroll, it sounds like a steal for the owners.

[Ike]

I don't understand most of this thread. If you are the absolute best at what you do, enough to warrant 10's of thousands of people wanting to watch you every day, why aren't you worth that amount?

Each stadium sells close to a million dollars per game. 82 home games plus ad revenue, merchandise, tv contracts etc. 100 mill as a total team salary sounds like a bargain.

Using the accepted standard of 60% of business being payroll, it sounds like a steal for the owners.

It is a pretty good deal for the owners:
MLB took in an estimated 6.6 billion in revenue in 2009 (don't have a number for 2010). Player salaries for the 912 players that average 3 million a year works out to 2.7 billion or so. (earlier I had assumed ~750 players (30 teams * 25 man roster) when I said 2.25 billion. ) Thats about 41%. Do all the other employees of the team (front office + stadium workers) account for another 19%? I don't know. Maybe?

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

So, let's now complain about how much the baseball teams' owners make.

[StoopTroup]

MLB Owners are true Americans who are keeping the dream alive no matter how much it costs.

[saucysoonergal]

Cruiser is a commie.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Cruiser is a commie.Maybe he's a Contrarion?

[saucysoonergal]

Maybe he's a Contrarion?

Like Leroy?

[badger]

I think there is a huge difference between rich and wealthy. Also....why aren't the Pubs in Congress doing anything about this Inheritance Tax deal before 12/31/10?

Is it part of the current tax deal, or will it really go back to 2001 era, where instead of $5 mil-plus gets 35 percent taxed, $1 mil-plus gets 55 percent taxed?

I am not sure what to think about inheritance taxes, because I don't expect, want or need much of an inheritance.

But, I do know that for generations, people have been able to pass down their Packer season tickets to their kids while 80,000 people stay on a waiting list... and I'd love to inherit Packer tickets if my parents had em

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Like Leroy?Maybe like Crucifax and/or Instigator

[2121Sooner]

no one throws a 96 mph slider


I get your point though

Chuck Norris does. He not only can throw a 96 mph slider, but he can run up and hit his own pitch.

[soonercruiser]

Cruiser is a commie.

Wow! Are you too?
:rolleyes:

[soonercruiser]

Is it part of the current tax deal, or will it really go back to 2001 era, where instead of $5 mil-plus gets 35 percent taxed, $1 mil-plus gets 55 percent taxed?

I am not sure what to think about inheritance taxes, because I don't expect, want or need much of an inheritance.

But, I do know that for generations, people have been able to pass down their Packer season tickets to their kids while 80,000 people stay on a waiting list... and I'd love to inherit Packer tickets if my parents had em

Sorry!
But, 35% of the families Packer ticket inheritance will belong to the Demoncrats.