Welcome to the November 5, 2009 edition of Brutusreport Blogspot Sports Carnival.This issue has a good number of great stories with a couple of lists and a couple of stories about the MLB Wo……

BigAl:
Creating the cure for aids or cancer.

Are those the only ones? I’d venture to say most people who touch that kind of money aren’t scientists.

Marcus:
What should your contribution to society be in order to make $20 – $40MM?

Creating the cure for aids or cancer.

Aberk:
I don’t think that any individual, whose contribution to society is purely entertaining, should be paid that much.It is kind of up there with CEO pay in my opinion.

What should your contribution to society be in order to make $20 – $40MM?

Marcus:
An athletes pay is typically commensurate with his performance and financial impact to a team.You don’t think the main driver behind $8B in revenue should be paid $40MM?

Well if your team is producing 8B sure, 40M is ok.

Marcus:
An athletes pay is typically commensurate with his performance and financial impact to a team.You don’t think the main driver behind $8B in revenue should be paid $40MM?

I don’t think that any individual, whose contribution to society is purely entertaining, should be paid that much. It is kind of up there with CEO pay in my opinion.

Emcee:
While I sort of agree, I don’t think any athlete deserves 20 or 40 million a year.They are on par with movie actors in the sense that they entertain well.

An athletes pay is typically commensurate with his performance and financial impact to a team. You don’t think the main driver behind $8B in revenue should be paid $40MM?

Marcus:
What makes them overpaid?

While I sort of agree, I don’t think any athlete deserves 20 or 40 million a year. They are on par with movie actors in the sense that they entertain well.