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Contributing to the Salaries of Millionaire Professional Athletes

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Of course, it is possible that you contribute to that baseball or football player when you go to see that game. It only makes sense. It’s what you pay tickets for.

However, I really don’t think it works that way. My guess is that doesn’t cover half of the salaries. I might be wrong. Still, I would like to see a breakdown on where the money comes from and where it goes.

Regardless, if the cities did not build the stadiums, the clubs would have to. It is sort of the way it started out. As time went by, more and more, the cities and counties started paying for the stadiums as a draw to pro teams, or for that matter, the semi-pro stadiums.

So, with your tax dollars, they pay to put the stadiums in, which allows the teams to put their millions toward the players. To me, the way I look at it, the taxpayers are helping to pay the players, even if they never go to a game.

So, isn’t it nice to know, even though you can hardly pay your car payment or grocery bills, they involuntarily make sure a dollar or two out of your paycheck goes to pay for that multi-millionaire player’s contract and bonuses.

If you don’t believe me, if none of the cities pay for the stadiums, just watch how fast those contracts decrease in value.

The hitch is this. If you take a little from each player, they’d not miss it and they could pay for the stadiums. Then the cities would not have to reach into our wallets to build the stadiums.

Then, the only folks that would pay for the contracts would be the ones paying for the tickets. I would imagine the concessions could pay for the stadium upkeep.

It does make me wonder though. Why do I write this when I know very few will read this, if any. Well, I also like talking to fence posts.

Rules & Refs

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It’s another football weekend. Teams will take to the field and play, mostly by the rules. When there are infractions the referees will usually step in and penalize the guilty team.

Nowadays, the officiaters have help. It just almost seems like there are cameras everywhere. When a play is in doubt, it can generally be reviewed from 2 or 3 different angles. I would call that a good thing. It keeps the game a little more fair, though occasionally someone does get by with something.

However, that just doesn’t happen much these days. There are many refs out there and the refs are getting better.

However, I think Old Joe’s been watching too many football games. He seems to think wars are like football. He seems to think the fighters will all compete by the rules. Whenever they don’t, he expects someone to toss a flag. Then, whenever there is a contested action, he figures it can be reviewed on the instant replay. This of course, while everyone just pauses and uses the time to catch their breath. And, oh yes, it will give the fan a chance to get a brew.

Then to, in war, there are no stopwatches. It isn’t over in a few hours. For some, it’s never over.

Better that the wars never start, like when Trump was in office. Better that the war is over fast. Less will be killed in a 2 week war than a two month war.

Old Joe just doesn’t get it. Because he permitted Iran and Russia to build up their fortunes, two wars broke out. People are dying because he insisted on driving the price of oil up. People are dying because Old Joe decided to give Iran a few billion.

I sure wish we could get a referee to throw one of those yellow things and pronounce penalties on Russian and Iran. However, I’m not getting my hopes up. I know the difference between football and war.