Should Professional Athletes Be Paid The Enormous

Salaries They Do? Essay, Research Paper

My claim is that it is unethical for professional athletes to receive the enormous amount of compensation that they do

By Unethical I mean that it is an injustice to the citizens of our hard working country that are out to make a dollar and do it by holding a well respected job.

By compensation I mean the ridiculous amounts of money that an athlete makes for playing a particular sport.

My value criteria or standards I will use are as follows:

1. A man who does not graduate college may not be as qualified to make the salaries that exist.

2. Ridiculous salaries is setting an example for our youth that just because you can hit a baseball or shoot a basketball or shoot a hockey puck or throw a football that you can make millions of dollars without truly earning it.

3. An athlete who graduates college deserves money based on his collegiate experience.

I will argue the point of graduation first and then go into the fact that just because you have a god given talent that doesn’t mean you should make millions more than others, and finally I will conclude that the college graduate that does make it in the professional sports world deserves money based on experience from College.

Now then turning to my first point of being a college graduate.

Kobe Bryant one of the NBA’s most prolific scorers and highest paid player never ever went to College. In fact Bryant, from near my hometown in Delaware County bypassed college and made the leap to the NBA. Should he be able to receive the amount of money that he does, and the average college student that graduates and has a degree is not able to obtain a job that pays that kind of base salary. I think not, in fact I feel that the only kind of people that have any business of making the kind of money athletes do are doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers and maybe anyone who actually does attend graduate school. Now those kind of professions have the right of making that type of income due to the fact that they not only have they graduated college but they attended graduate school and have perfected their business and received a degree.

Kevin Garnett has the richest contract in all of NBA history, 6 years 126 million dollars and he never ever stepped a foot on one of our great campuses in the United States of America. Please tell me why should Garnett make this money if he never ever had to earn it. If he never ever had to go to school and learn about society and the world we live in.

THIS JUST IN: Kevin Garnett is taking classes right now in the state of Minnesota. Maybe he’ll graduate before his six year contract is up.

Next I address the issue of setting a bad example for America’s youth

I do not think it is fair to the children of tomorrow to give them false hopes by telling them that just because you have talent to play a sport you’ll be making millions of dollars. Lets face it most children in society will have the aspirations and the dreams of being an athlete but the fact of the matter is that just wont happen.

So our athletes that say buy my shoes and you can be like me or drink my product and you’ll have my stamina and endurance are not lying to our children, but are giving them a wrong perception of the world we live in. Athletes should most definitely educate our children that you must get a good education and make something of yourself. If the opportunity to be an athlete comes along well then maybe they could act on it.

It is not right to say that just because you can physically perform an athletic feat that you should be paid millions of dollars for it. An example of this kind of idea goes to the RF for the Cleveland Indians. Last week, Manny Ramirez stated that he wanted to abandon talks with the Indians and pursue his free agent market. Ramirez later was quoted as saying he would sign with the Indians if they gave him a 10 year deal worth 200 million dollars. 200 Million Dollars??? You have got to be kidding me, that is more money you or I is ever going to see in our lives, yet Mr. Ramirez throws that number out like it is nothing. These athletes should learn the value of a dollar and realize while they are making millions for playing sports many are starving and struggling to make a career for themselves in the United States. Other cases in baseball where this idea of asking for insane amounts of money occurs with Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr. as well as Kevin Brown.

According to ESPN Kevin Brown received 105 million dollars over 5 which means he makes 21 million dollars a year for throwing a baseball over home plate. Not to mention the fact that he only pitches once every five days. Sure he might be a great pitcher and a wonderful citizen of Los Angeles, but I am sorry, he doesn’t deserve 21 million dollars a year for pitching.

Also according to ESPN or good friend Griffey came over to the Reds for a pay cut. You must be saying what a great citizen a pay cut, that’s right folks Griffey was delivered for only 97 million dollars. Yeah thats right 97 million dollars and that is considered a bargain. WHY do the owners continue to pay these ridiculous salaries??

According to WGN Sammy Sosa, oh Sammy Sammy. Now Sammy he has a case. Sammy hit 65 home runs only two years ago. Well excuse me that means he should get that 150 million dollar

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