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Kershaw with the delivery. Fastball inside half of the plate and it’s hit hard by Altuve. High, deep left center field and it’s 100,000 dollars for Altuve. In one game some baseball players make over 100,000. 8 That takes about 3 hours. In a week a tower climber makes less than a thousand dollars. Athletes do work hard, but they aren’t worth more than the risks normal people take during work. Sports is a favorite pastime of a lot of people, but even with the sacrifices and work athletes put in to their sport, they shouldn’t get millions for it. Some go a whole season or don’t have a big risk factor and are guaranteed millions when farmers and firefights aren’t getting paid and ¼ of that. Athletes are getting injured and still making money, …show more content…

The average player makes a 4.5 million dollar salary. 4 Injuries in basketball are normally not that bad or happen in a lot of other sports. Also most injuries don’t affect them greatly long term. Dangerous sports are paid the least. Out of all the sports that should get paid a lot, football stands out. Players are pounded every play and injuries are common. The worst part about this is that the brain can be affected. A hot topic right now is CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). CTE is caused by repetitive brain trauma. 5 Most think it is caused by repetitive concussions, but scientists think that the subconcussive hits that don’t cause concussion symptoms are the biggest factor. CTE was just diagnosed in a living patient for the first time not so long ago. In the living patients it is found through a scan of the brain, in the dead it is found in an autopsy. CTE can cause speech difficulties, weakness, vision or focus problem, dementia and more. 6 Football is the most common sport this is found in, and players are paid second least on average in American sports. This should be flipped over and football should be paid the most or second most at least. For risking paralyzation, effects of CTE and so much more they deserve to be paid the most.Athletes are not just overpaid, the payment is going to the wrong athletes. Even with those risks are they worth more than regular …show more content…

Regular people deserve more. Some people don’t know what they would do without sports in their life, and I think without the pay less athletes would have the drive to work hard and get to the pros. Working people watch sports, some watch during work, and are getting paid not even 200 percent of what some athletes are. Doctors save lives and save athletes careers and get paid less than 75 percent of MLB. That is plain doltish. It’s also unfair that the most taxing jobs on the body, get paid even less. One of the hardest jobs is a tower climber. They make around 52,000 dollar per year. The average MLB player makes 4 million dollars annually. The people who give us the option to watch the MLB on our phones get paid millions less than the people just playing the game. Without the climbers the athletes wouldn’t get the publicity and wouldn’t get paid as much. Tower climber are just one of the mind blowing

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