Sunday, July 27, 2008
Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger bemoans the escalation of players' salaries in a New York Times op-ed piece, and asks why they should get such salaries in a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. But that seems like the entirely wrong target. Why not go after the billionaires who actually own the teams, if the fact that too much money is sloshing around baseball and other sports gets on one's nerves? Just because the player is the most visible target doesn't mean he's the right person to go after.
Posted by Daryl | Email this post
Buzz Bissinger bemoans the escalation of players' salaries in a New York Times op-ed piece, and asks why they should get such salaries in a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. But that seems like the entirely wrong target. Why not go after the billionaires who actually own the teams, if the fact that too much money is sloshing around baseball and other sports gets on one's nerves? Just because the player is the most visible target doesn't mean he's the right person to go after.
Posted by Daryl | Email this post
Amen to that. Even as the economist says in Bissinger's article, "Sports are the last thing people let go of," owners should at least have the idea in the back of their minds that people will let go. And then, eventually, even the current crap economy will catch up with them. (But not before wiping the floor with less popular sports first.)
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