Tim Duncan called a team meeting?

[MannyIsGod]

So many flaws to this analogy compared to what was being stated I can't even begin to start.

In fact if I addressed every quote it would probably take up to 2 pages just to rebute.

Bottomline...these players get paid well. Deservedly so. I won't argue that.

But being paid well compared to fiscal rape is a different story. The current and past salary structure these player's receive is one of the main reasons for the fiscal problems that exist today in professional sports.

And it's hard for me to feel sorry for someone's inability to manage a measily 2 million dollars a year into something they could live off of for the rest of their lives if all they could manage to professionally play is one year. They do have brains. They could invest...further their education...take the education some of them receive and apply it to continuing their lives...become a mul ude of other things and benefit from those other things after life of professional sports is done. So it's not like playing professional sports is the only thing they can do to support themselves. In fact...playing professional sports probably helps to catepult other endeavors of fiscal gain that many outside that realm would ever have a chance to benefit from just because they were professional athletes.

But hey...it is the way it is. And that's the way it works.

But I call BS to that analogy of why it should work that way.

Sorry to unload that way but it's always been a pet peeve of mine when others try to justify poor rich souls.

Reading comprehension you lack it. Projection, you have it down. You missed what he was saying and you subs uted in its place what you hate hearing.

[MannyIsGod]

Oh and it wasn't an analogy.

[ShoogarBear]

So many flaws to this analogy compared to what was being stated I can't even begin to start.

In fact if I addressed every quote it would probably take up to 2 pages just to rebute.

So instead you addressed none of them and spewed on a bunch of unrelated topics gnawing away at you.

Bottomline...these players get paid well. Deservedly so. I won't argue that.

But being paid well compared to fiscal rape is a different story. The current and past salary structure these player's receive is one of the main reasons for the fiscal problems that exist today in professional sports.

I guess we should find that guy holding the gun to the owners' heads.

Here's a primer: the discussion was paying for performance, and whether pro athletes should get paid like "real people" do. My points were: 1) it doesn't make sense to pay players like that, and 2) the system proposed (paying players based on team wins) has NO relationship to how "real people" get paid.

And it's hard for me to feel sorry for someone's inability to manage a measily 2 million dollars a year into something they could live off of for the rest of their lives if all they could manage to professionally play is one year. They do have brains. They could invest...further their education...take the education some of them receive and apply it to continuing their lives...become a mul ude of other things and benefit from those other things after life of professional sports is done. So it's not like playing professional sports is the only thing they can do to support themselves. In fact...playing professional sports probably helps to catepult other endeavors of fiscal gain that many outside that realm would ever have a chance to benefit from just because they were professional athletes.

But hey...it is the way it is. And that's the way it works.

I'm sorry you're so bitter about that. Sounds like a personal problem, has nothing to do with the topic.

But I call BS to that analogy of why it should work that way.

Sorry to unload that way but it's always been a pet peeve of mine when others try to justify poor rich souls.

Again, nothing to do with the point, but it's interesting you reserve all your venom for the players and not the owners.

[jdev82]

For some reason I am thinking of this song when it comes to Jefferson and the Spurs....

Here we stand
World's apart, hearts broken in two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground
I'm reaching for you

Feelin' that it's gone
Can change your mind
If we can't go on
To survive the tide love divides

*Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched and went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched and went our separate ways

Troubled times
Caught between confusion and pain
Distant eyes
Promises we made were in vain

If you must go, I wish you love
You'll never walk alone
Take care my love
Miss you love

(*chorus*)

I still love you girl
I really love you girl
And if he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
No....no...

you're gay, aren't you?