Brian Urlacher: From Fan Favorite to Fan Hatred?

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I can see why someone doesn't see how someone who hits a baseball, fields, runs bases and such is worth 30+ mil.

Those people aren't grasping the situation fully. In a vacuum, someone who plays a game for a living getting paid some 600% more than an average schmuck with a "real" job (MLB average salary versus a 50K per year position) would be alarming. However, that "game" is actually a multi-billion dollar a year industry, and that player is an essential piece to the product of that industry.

You have to look through the lens of what professional sports actually are (multi-billion dollar industries) as opposed to what they would appear to be in a vacuum (a game). At least, unless you (not necessarily you) want to sound like a whinny little biotch.

Now, if you want to talk about specific athletes being overpaid given their level of production in their respective sport, that's a completely different discussion with different benchmarks, parameters, etc.
 
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