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[UNHWildCats]

Especially baseball.. not even the toughest of the 4 sports.

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

[Gil Dobie]

Especially baseball.. not even the toughest of the 4 sports.

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

Last year Albert Pujols hit a baseball in play 511 times in 587 at bats, what's so hard about it?

[UNHWildCats]

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

Last year Albert Pujols hit a baseball in play 511 times in 587 at bats, what's so hard about it?

Go bat 50 times against the SF Giants and Philadelphia rotations and get back to me with how many times you even manage to foul tip a ball.

[89Hen]

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

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[Gil Dobie]

Last year Albert Pujols hit a baseball in play 511 times in 587 at bats, what's so hard about it?

Go bat 50 times against the SF Giants and Philadelphia rotations and get back to me with how many times you even manage to foul tip a ball.

At my age I have a better chance hitting the baseball than dunking a basketball.

[GannonFan]

Didn't wanna start another thread...

What's downright sickening is the $$ Pujols is asking for. NO ATHLETE is worth $30 **** million a season. No sport, period. Do I think the amounts a lot of the players make, including Yankees are disgusting? Yes I do. No human being is worth that much money to play a damn game.

Why not? If the baseball club pulls in enough revenue to afford that, then yes, he is worth it. Just like a movie star can make millions just acting in a movie - if it brings in the revenues at the box office, that person is worth it. Doesn't matter than both are fairly inconsequential activities in the world, it just matters if they bring in money.

[GannonFan]

Especially baseball.. not even the toughest of the 4 sports.

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

Just because Ted Williams said it was the hardest doesn't mean that he was right. I mean, who would take for granted an idea that came from the same guy who thought it would be a good idea, when he died, to have his head cut off and frozen in a freezer. Just saying.

[bluehenbillk]

Not that I agree with much of what Travis says - but he's right on this one. Hitting a pitch thrown by a MLB hurler would be pretty tough. You just can't sit on pitches without looking silly.

Some people won't call it sports, but driving 180-200mph with a car on either side of you doing the same, less than a foot away on a banked curve - now that's hard.

[89Hen]

Not that I agree with much of what Travis says - but he's right on this one. Hitting a pitch thrown by a MLB hurler would be pretty tough. You just can't sit on pitches without looking silly.

Some people won't call it sports, but driving 180-200mph with a car on either side of you doing the same, less than a foot away on a banked curve - now that's hard.

No, he's not right on this one.

"Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports."

[Willie]

Didn't wanna start another thread...

What's downright sickening is the $$ Pujols is asking for. NO ATHLETE is worth $30 **** million a season. No sport, period. Do I think the amounts a lot of the players make, including Yankees are disgusting? Yes I do. No human being is worth that much money to play a damn game.

Why not? If the baseball club pulls in enough revenue to afford that, then yes, he is worth it. Just like a movie star can make millions just acting in a movie - if it brings in the revenues at the box office, that person is worth it. Doesn't matter than both are fairly inconsequential activities in the world, it just matters if they bring in money.

So you're telling me that I'm not worth that kind of money too then? Can Pujols master Adobe Illustrator? Doubful as he can barely speak english.

No one is worth that much more than anyone else.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

MLB doesn't need a salary cap - the owners need to learn some fucking restraint.

Pujols is the best in the game... and should have a rich contract. He sees the INSANE contract A-Rod got, and wants a taste (and 10 years of checks)... as it is, he won't get what he wants on the open market - but more power to him to try.

If MLB got a salary cap we'd see even more preposterous player moves like we do in the NFL... part of why I can't watch the NFL is that teams routinely cut perfectly good players you've grown to like "to make room in the cap" as opposed to "he wasn't cutting it on the field"... stupid.

MLB is doing fine with the current system. Consider this: in the 2000's (2000-2010) 11 of the 14 AL teams made the playoffs and 14 of 16 NL teams did. The only ones who didn't - the Royals, Pirates, Expos/Nationals, Orioles and Blue Jays - didn't lose because they "couldn't afford to compete" they didn't because they were managed ineptly. (except perhaps for Toronto a bit being bottlenecked in the East)

Lower revenue teams won't compete every year, but if managed properly can make a run ever 3-5 years (the Rays, Padres, Brewers, Reds, etc) - the system works very well.

[clenz]

Why not? If the baseball club pulls in enough revenue to afford that, then yes, he is worth it. Just like a movie star can make millions just acting in a movie - if it brings in the revenues at the box office, that person is worth it. Doesn't matter than both are fairly inconsequential activities in the world, it just matters if they bring in money.

So you're telling me that I'm not worth that kind of money too then? Can Pujols master Adobe Illustrator? Doubful as he can barely speak english.

No one is worth that much more than anyone else.

So people who can't speak English can't master photoshop like programs? Um...you might want to learn Chinese, Japanese, and about 10 other Asian languages to let them know.


Also, more to your point, no...Pujol's isn't worth as much as you in the graphic design field.

[Grizalltheway]

Why not? If the baseball club pulls in enough revenue to afford that, then yes, he is worth it. Just like a movie star can make millions just acting in a movie - if it brings in the revenues at the box office, that person is worth it. Doesn't matter than both are fairly inconsequential activities in the world, it just matters if they bring in money.

So you're telling me that I'm not worth that kind of money too then? Can Pujols master Adobe Illustrator? Doubful as he can barely speak english.

No one is worth that much more than anyone else.

And I get called a commie around here?

If you can get hundreds of thousands of people to come watch you do your Adobe thing every season, then yes, you deserve to make millions of dollars per year.

[UNHWildCats]

Not that I agree with much of what Travis says - but he's right on this one. Hitting a pitch thrown by a MLB hurler would be pretty tough. You just can't sit on pitches without looking silly.

Some people won't call it sports, but driving 180-200mph with a car on either side of you doing the same, less than a foot away on a banked curve - now that's hard.

No, he's not right on this one.

"Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports."

hitting a baseball
returning a tennis serve
race car driving
pole vaulting
landing a quad
running a marathon
saving a penalty kick
tour de france
the downhill
ski jumping

[MrTitleist]

Especially baseball.. not even the toughest of the 4 sports.

Whats the hardest thing to do in all of sports?

Hit a baseball!

Nothing in hockey, football or basketball even ranks in the top 10 toughest things to do in sports.

How about catching a pass over the middle of the field while a safety is about to blast you into oblivion.

If a guy like David Wells can succeed and be a hall of famer in MLB, then it's not that difficult of a sport. As far as athletic ability goes, baseball is about 3 or 4 of the major sports.

[Willie]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

[Grizalltheway]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

Leverage. Right or wrong, they have a lot of it.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

do you, willie?

i don't mean this personally, or to be rude... just something to consider:

many athletes lives are shortened (in some cases dramatically like football linemen and running backs)

looking at an MLB player... 162 games in 26 weeks (working 6.2 days/week) this doesn't include six weeks of spring training (which is no picnic) or the postseason. Even after working for seven and a half months with maybe one day off a week - the off season isn't exactly all sitting on the beach... conditioning, and frequently surgery (or at least rehabbing some nagging injury that you have had for two months) are daily activities.

you dedicate that much time and energy, sleeping in hotels in different cities half the season... your life is baseball damn near 24x7 - while i don't doubt graphic design is hard work... you get to spend weekends with friends, have a life, or if nothing else simply live in and work in one town throughout the year.

add to this the fact that every day their job, and every thing they do at work, is broadcast to millions and then broken down ad nauseum on tv/radio/blogs/etc...

Working on campaigns I've lived with something similar (at much lower rates of pay) for years... long hours, low pay, every move analyzed to death by amateurs, no days off... it takes a serious toll.

but these guys earn millions for their teams... they put butts in seats and drive tv ratings, bringing in huge revenues... why shouldn't they be paid commensurate with their ability to do that?

[bluehenbillk]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

On top of the last post response, do you have thousands of fans heckle you, distract you, curse at you, say every other day you work??

[UNHWildCats]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

On top of the last post response, do you have thousands of fans heckle you, distract you, curse at you, say every other day you work??

well he has a few people sorta heckling him here lol

[GannonFan]

People don't get it.

God created everyone EQUALLY.

Ok I couldn't say that with a straight face. But seriously.

I don't get to choose my salary. And I work just as hard as any athlete. So why should they get to pick theirs?

On top of the last post response, do you have thousands of fans heckle you, distract you, curse at you, say every other day you work??

Don't forget the most important thing - that those thousands of fans also pay hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a season to do those things. If I had thousands of fans forking over hundreds of millions of dollars to see me work as an engineer I could pull down a million dollar contract too.

Salaries that people get paid aren't some withdraw from the world-wide Human Fund (Seinfeld reference) that is in charge of distributing income. Salaries are all based on what people can afford to pay you and how important you are to the business you're in. Pujols will fairly get $30M a year because he's the best player in baseball and plenty of baseball teams can afford to pay him that. Simple as that.

[GannonFan]

On top of the last post response, do you have thousands of fans heckle you, distract you, curse at you, say every other day you work??

well he has a few people sorta heckling him here lol

Yeah, but none of us had to pay a price of admission to do the heckling.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

(an aside for those who post on the politics board) re-reading my response this morning, you bastards can never call me a communist again.

[93henfan]

The Phils have already sold 3.3 million tickets for the 2011 season. SRO is all that's left.

[Grizalltheway]

The Phils have already sold 3.3 million tickets for the 2011 season. SRO is all that's left.