The size of compensation packages for athletes has always been a sore point for me. This last week had some whopper contracts dealt out...$180 million here and $160 million there... to go out and play some baseball for a few years (I think the contracts ran 6 or 8 years).
This particularly annoys me when people are struggling and slipping into a financial tailspin that a meager portion of these big league contracts could solve.
Here is another point...and I am totally serious here. If you had no bills to worry about, no school to attend and no job to go to... and I gave you a full time trainer and you worked out every day (OK, you can rest at times with a day or two off) and all you did was train at a particular position in a particular sport I challenge anyone to tell me differently that you couldn't play at the professional level in athletics...you name it: soccer, hockey, swimming, diving, football, baseball. I know that an average person can be trained to professional status without all the baggage that we all carry around.
HERE IS THE CHALLEGE TO COCA COLA, POWERADE, GATORADE...ANYONE: I am 56 years old, 5' 10" and 180 pounds...I have retained reasonable athletic skill. And I challenge any corporation to sponsor my bills and overhead, while taking me to professional dieticians and trainers and I think I can play at the professional level. If I can do it, I'll reimburse them for all the carrying expenses while I trained - and I'll pay them from the lucrative sports contract I will sign.
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Michael Caruso, broker ABR ABRM CRB CRS GRI
2007 President, Orange County Association of Realtors
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