Comments on: NHL is shooting itself http://top-frog.com/2005/05/29/nhl_is_shooting_itself/ Polluting the internet since 2004 Sat, 12 May 2012 18:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joey B. http://top-frog.com/2005/05/29/nhl_is_shooting_itself/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Joey B. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://top-frog.com/?p=85#comment-403 Sports salaries are ridiculous, period. $1 million to a guy that waves his arm and tells a guy to run around a base? That's wrong. The Bo-Sox head coach makes $550k a year... That's still a bit much, but reasonable. Joe Torrie (Yankees Head Coach) makes something like 10 or 20 times that much.</p> <p></p> <p>Ri. Dic. U. Lous. Sports salaries are ridiculous, period. $1 million to a guy that waves his arm and tells a guy to run around a base? That’s wrong. The Bo-Sox head coach makes $550k a year… That’s still a bit much, but reasonable. Joe Torrie (Yankees Head Coach) makes something like 10 or 20 times that much.

Ri. Dic. U. Lous.

]]> By: joel schou http://top-frog.com/2005/05/29/nhl_is_shooting_itself/comment-page-1/#comment-404 joel schou Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://top-frog.com/?p=85#comment-404 Gip, I've noticed a severe reduction in my television watching as a direct result of the NHL's stupidity. The past few years, I've enjoyed watching the Wild so much that as a result I'd tune in for whatever hockey games I could find just to satisfy the fix. Subsequently, I'd also watch basketball games that would be on before/after/during the hockey. Not only that, SportsCenter would be a perpetual presence in my apartment as well. Now, with no hockey, the TV rarely turns on, basketball is completely unappealing, and I haven't watched SportsCenter regularly since, well, last year. Am I going to watch again if/when the NHL comes back? Probably. Will I have as much enthusiasm for it? No. Will I watch as much other TV? I hope not. Stupid hockey.</p> <p></p> <p>Joey, as long as humans (don't limit sports salary rants to the US. Soccer players in Europe are as well-paid as any athletes anywhere) enjoy watching sport, sports stars will make a lot of money. Is A-Rod's $20M/year salary outrageous? Absolutely. Would it have been worth it had the Rangers won a World Series? Ask any Rangers fan and I bet the answer would have been "yes." As a Twins fan, it absolutely pisses me off that the Yankees and other large-market teams have such an incredible advantage over smaller spenders, but as a free-market society, it's all a result of the demand of the consumer. Gip, I’ve noticed a severe reduction in my television watching as a direct result of the NHL’s stupidity. The past few years, I’ve enjoyed watching the Wild so much that as a result I’d tune in for whatever hockey games I could find just to satisfy the fix. Subsequently, I’d also watch basketball games that would be on before/after/during the hockey. Not only that, SportsCenter would be a perpetual presence in my apartment as well. Now, with no hockey, the TV rarely turns on, basketball is completely unappealing, and I haven’t watched SportsCenter regularly since, well, last year. Am I going to watch again if/when the NHL comes back? Probably. Will I have as much enthusiasm for it? No. Will I watch as much other TV? I hope not. Stupid hockey.

Joey, as long as humans (don’t limit sports salary rants to the US. Soccer players in Europe are as well-paid as any athletes anywhere) enjoy watching sport, sports stars will make a lot of money. Is A-Rod’s $20M/year salary outrageous? Absolutely. Would it have been worth it had the Rangers won a World Series? Ask any Rangers fan and I bet the answer would have been "yes." As a Twins fan, it absolutely pisses me off that the Yankees and other large-market teams have such an incredible advantage over smaller spenders, but as a free-market society, it’s all a result of the demand of the consumer.

]]> By: alden http://top-frog.com/2005/05/29/nhl_is_shooting_itself/comment-page-1/#comment-405 alden Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://top-frog.com/?p=85#comment-405 I agree with joel on this 100% I agree with joel on this 100%

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