$alaries are way too high!

Anyone in America who knows the true value of a dollar believes that athletes salaries are way too high. Current sports salaries are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing contracts that are worth over 50 million dollars and 30 million dollars guaranteed.

4 out of the top 5 highest payed players in the MLB are currently members of the New York Yankees. Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, C.C. Sabathia and Mark Texeria are making a combined seventy five million two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year. They sign contracts for a combined eight hundred and five million dollars, averaging two hundred one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is an outrageous amount of money for four players to play merely a game that you and I would play for pure enjoyment in our spare time.

The difference between then and now is that in 1927 Babe Ruth was the highest paid player in the MLB and he was making seventy thousand dollars a year. In 1979 Nolan Ryan was making only one million dollars compared to the highest player now who is making thirty three times that amount.

These high salaries also affect the average sports fan because higher salaries means that ticket sales will be higher and jersey sales will be higher. The tickets, jerseys and food that ongoing sports fans buy at games pays for a large percent of players salaries. Now an average family of four can not go to a sports event with out spending an entire paycheck to go to ONE game. It is cheaper to fly to Kansas City, for a Royals game against the New York Yankees, go to two games there than it is just to drive to Stienbrener Stadium and watch the game there. The jerseys that are bought in stores are worth about seventy five dollars but are sold for two hundred and fifty dollars. This mark-up is just one of the many was that we, meaning the fans, pay for the over payed players.

Some of the players around the different leagues treat sports as a business and others will take the pay cut just because of the pure love of the game. Pro sports has some serious problems when it comes to money because just a few months ago Albert Hansworth signed a one hundred million dollar deal with the Washington Redskins. Don't get me wrong he a big physical player and you could argue that he is the best at what he does but for him to only be out there for twenty five percent of the game, he doesn't deserve one hundred million dollars. It doesn't matter who you are, your not worth one hundred million dollars.

With the economy being as bad as it is now, you would think salaries would slowly be decreasing. If you said yes your wrong the big money players are just getting payed more. If you thought that Rodriguez, Texeria, Jeter and Sabathia were making alot of money well... with his success on and of the golf course Tiger Woods has already earned ONE BILLION DOLLARS, which is five times more than what A-rod and his teammates were making.

I can throw stats at you all day about how professional players are being payed way too much money but think about this... the average person makes one million eight hundred thousand dollars in a LIFETIME versus Tiger Woods who made ONE HUNDRED times that amount.