Why cant MLB just get together and say no to these fuckers? They wont get 250 mil if no one pays it. Same with the movie people. Quit throwing money at them and they will stop trying to act like gods around the people(us) that put them where they are.

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you have a good point, but you're directing it at the wrong people. i know i wouldn't mind getting paid all that money in exchange for basically just projecting a specific image, or in the case of sports, doing something i loved. how much must the people above them - corporate heads, owners, assorted fucknuts - be making to afford forking over these crazy salaries? prolly more than the useful people will ever see. oh, nevermind. everyone would just shrivel up and die without corporate entertainment. boo hoo!

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This message has been edited by hyperponic on December 27, 2000 at 07:39 AM

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Originally posted by CatKnight:
its economics man. they get paid that much because people want to see them that much. when 50,000 people go to see baseball games for all the games for all the teams, something must be goin on

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Sort of..actually, ya, you're right. They get paid that much 'cause the owners think that 'they' will be a big enough draw and/or help the teams performance and therefore increase the number of tickets sold. Same with movies; invest in a good/popular actor and the draw will be worth it when the profits start pouring in.. If you want them to get paid less, STOP GOING TO MOVIES AND SPORTING EVENTS. AND KILL EVERYONE THAT DOES

This message has been edited by Happyfish on December 27, 2000 at 10:57 PM

And movies piss me off even more. You can pay more for the fucking popcorn then the ticket. We have a Tinsletown in my area (really really big screens), and I have to pay ů to get in and 4.50 for a damn drink. They load the cup so damn full of ice I have no room for the drink, and the popcorn - don't even get me started.

Perhaps that is why I bought a DVD player - high quality audio and video for a fraction of the price. DVD rentles are 0.99 in my area.

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Originally posted by Sithiee:
they wont let you have no ice? thats bullshit. demand to see it in writing. if they cant show it to you, they cant put ice in your drink. tell them you are alergic to ice. get some doctor to sign off on it. just find a way to kick their asses to the curb. thats just bullshit...

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A more reasonable one would be to say that your dentist says that you can't drink anything that cold, because your teeth are hypersensitive, but your docter told you you need to keep drinking, which means if they can't give you a drink with no ice, they have to let you drink your own drink.

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Cyclone, they paid Schwarzenegger all that money because he's a bankable star because they know that foolish people with an internet nickname like Cyclone will go and see the film anyway despite all the reviews giving it one star. No offence but I didn't even bother going to see it. Same as I haven't seen Titanic, they made enough money and if I have to look at stupid fucking americans thinking they're Irish one more time I'LL go and sink the fucking ship.

Anyway, I'll move away from being mildly offensive and say that people like the Rodriguez guy (the baseball player, not sure if that's his name) and Keane over here (he's the closest thing and he only gets about 2 million a year and we think he's spoilt) get so much money because the teams know that it's worth paying that much money because with their ability and their draw they can make more than that money back. Figo was bought for 37 million not because he's actually worth that much but because Real knew that if they broke the transfer record then there would be a lot of attention which means extra publicity which means more chance to sell cheap tack and make money off the guys name as well as his football.

Someone else said that they should share the money out to the little people aswell. Nobody needs particular little persons, a guy working the camera on a film can't ask for a mill because they can just get some other geek who never wanted to point a camera anyway, he always wanted to tell someone else to point the camera and then fire them for doing it too slowly.
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