Filed under: Consumer experience, Rants and raves, Scandals, Rich in America, Business of sports

I was arguing about sports with my BloggingStocks colleague Barry Summerlin today. He was shook up by the Mets’ melt-down over the weekend, and I guess I wasn’t taking it seriously enough.

I know many women who follow sports, almost as fanatically as their menfolk. But I am not one of them.

So I say this out of complete disinterest in the sport and utter ignorance of the mechanism that causes player salaries to hurdle into the stratosphere: Tell the team members who threw the game (Tom Glavine?) that next season they get to live on $50K a year LIKE THE FANS DO until they get it together and improve their performance. Hit ‘em in the wallet, where it hurts!

I mean, these guys are getting the really big bucks because they’re so talented the franchise is guaranteed the big wins? Apparently that thinking didn’t work with the Mets.

Continue reading Fans to Mets: Shape up or live on $50K for the year

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Share This

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 am and is filed under Stocks Money News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.