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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3086033, member: 5832"] There's also a broader context to this, too. Baseball players are asked to do a lot of things other than play the game - and there's a lot that comes along with the job whether they want it to or not. Imagine at your job that you had to do it live, in front of hundreds of thousands of people every night. Then on your drive to work the next day you got to tune into radio stations with shows about your job discussing whether the job you did last night was good enough or not. You're traveling almost a 1/4 of the year - of which you're away from your family on a 9-5, but your 9-5pm is 1pm to 11pm, basically. Assuming you don't immediately have to get on a place to fly however many hours to go do your job in another city however many hours away, And when you go to the other places you work, the people there *really* don't like you and berrate you and say all sorts of crazy things. A few might even threaten you. You're doing this while knowing that if you don't do your job well enough - that you won't get fired, you just won't have a career anymore and you'll be going into the job market with no measurable skills outside of what you do already. You could also be randomly transferred or traded - not because you stink - but because someone likes you more than your current employer - or that your current employer likes someone else so much that he will move you just to get another guy. Then you get to move your family (some don't), get used to a new city and all of it. All that as a 'thank you' for having a skill that literally 0.0000000000001% of humans have or have a shot at acquiring. So if teachers would want to do all that. Or cancer doctors want to perform surgery in front of a live audience of thousands... then they'd get paid like baseball players. But in addition to lacking that kind of a specialized skill, none of them are willing to do any of that. I mean I really don't want to pick on them, but teachers in many places don't even have *basic* performance metrics and in some cases - their unions fight against them. But you can look at baseball players all day and get everything down to what count they like to swing at. My point is - they have a rare So again, there's a reason they get paid what they get paid. In addition to all of this gobeldygook. [/QUOTE]

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