Average Opening Day Salary Drops 17%

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<!--quoteo(post=86597:date=Apr 6 2010, 06:30 PM:name=Lance)-->QUOTE (Lance @ Apr 6 2010, 06:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=86533:date=Apr 6 2010, 02:59 PM:name=BackyardLegend)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BackyardLegend @ Apr 6 2010, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I'm still trying to figure out how baseball salaries have anything to do with the liberal/conservative argument.

Athletes get paid based on the economy of their business. It's a free market—for the most part—where wages are dictated by one's value to the organization.

If you are such a bleeding heart conservative Anna, then you should embrace this idea. And likewise, you should take issue with minimum wage laws that force places like Jewel to pay a 16 year old grocery bagger more than 8.00/hr.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


What the hell does that have to do with anything?
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I think the point was, if someone is a traditional, fiscal, free-market conservative (which frankly, I haven't paid any attention to whether Anna is or not), it's weird to suggest that anyone selling their services for the value that market places upon said services, is overpaid.

This is quite separate from whether we, as a society overvalue the ballplayers compared to say, schoolteachers.

Professional sports shits money. If you think ballplayers (and owners) are overpaid, stop buying tickets and t-shirts and Budweiser and Gillette.