Athletic Salaries: Financiall

Athletic Salaries: Financially Outrageous or Economic Necessity In Major League Baseball this year, the average player’s salary was $1.9 million. (CNNSI.com) The average salary of a NBA (National Basketball Association) player was $2.6 million. (Staudohar 3) This is a serious problem considering that the average salary of an average American worker is around $700 a week, or $36,400 per year. The real question on everyone’s mind is, what makes them so much more valuable than everyone else? …

…industry has gotten way out of hand, but the question is, who can stop it? These massive salaries need to be contained if the fans want to maintain the purity of the game. No matter what the sport, there is no need for ridiculous salaries which in turn become ridiculous expenses for the fans. When the salaries begin to hurt the fans with high ticket and merchandise prices, it is obvious that something is wrong.