Getting paid

Pay now for what has been done.

Feb 27, 2020

Seems like players in sports are signing deals for the years they have had, hoping to repeat them . Some have a good career and get bog money based on that and are paid for the name on the jersey in hopes for putting people in the seats. Or bringing their leadership to a team. Kind of like being paid, very well by the way, to help coach or manager.

Sometimes teams pay a player for the years they have had as a thank you. Or back pay. Others pay one based on what they have done, hope they can repeat or do better then that on a contestant basis. This blows up in the teams faces more often then not. A player may come off the bench for the last few games, do great an then get paid as if that was going to be the way they always preform. This too almost never works out.

It is because of this that pro sports teams overpay for kids out of college. Hoping they can bring that success to the pro team.

In Japanese Baseball, your team can win the championship, but if the parent company that owns the team lost money that year, you might get a cut in pay.  I'd love to see the faces of some modern day superstars when they find out they had to take a pay cut. You may do a great job where you work, but if the company does poor, you get little if no raise. Why not in sports? If a team does poorly, no raises. Champions, raises across the board. Not that simple either.

TV deals help give these teams the money to pay the athletes. Are they worth it? If you ask me, no.  No one is worth that kind of money.

It's just a game and they get paid this much. That is crazy. Just remember. Movie, TV and those in music are just playing a part or singing a song and they get paid just as much, if not more.

Enjoy the entertainment they are providing. Worrying about the money takes a lot of the fun out of it.

-Andy