How Do Athlete Get Paid Compared to the Rest of the World

Athlete Salary: Week 2

When I left off, Riccio was getting in the way, but that was last week. This week was a lot different, there wasn't that many distractions. And of course I was still completely engrossed in my music. Today I actually wanted to find why a professional athlete makes more than a doctor?

From the days of ESPN, I have moved on to new things. I want to find out how baseball salaries really hold up against the rest of the World's pay. A doctor's pay is higher then the rest of America's workers, but it still does not hold up against Professional athletes' salaries. The average staff physician makes $145,000 and a heart surgeon, the most paid doctor, makes $312,300 ("Doctor Salaries").

Now what sense does that make? A life saving doctor isn't even in the same pay league as a disgruntled third baseman or a mad wide receiver. True, the athletes work hard but if they make a mistake no one will die. On the other hand if a heart surgeon makes one mistake, his patient will not be leaving the hospital on his own feet. If I was a doctor, let alone a heart surgeon, I would be going on strike immediately. What type of man would put a price on a someone's life, especially if it comes down to: Do you want live or rather catch a football, or even be able to throw a baseball from center field to home base.

That was a doctors pay, how do construction workers hold up? Now their work may not be saving lives, but they are pretty important considering that we trust them to put the roof above our heads. The also put up the buildings we work in, go to school in, or even play recreational sports in. They have a hard living working from 6 a.m. or earlier till the jobs done, or the sun goes down. At least with another profession closing time means quitting time. An average consturction worker makes $11.90 an hour ("Constructio Worker's Earn"), which is $476 a week and $24, 752 a year. So a constructon worker who builds the athlete's house only makes $25K compared to his athlete counterpart, which would be in the millions.


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"DOCTOR SALARIES OUTPACE PAY OF MOST AMERICAN WORKERS." Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (Feb 12, 1995): B7. Custom Newspapers.. Gale. McKinley High School. 1 May 2008

"How much money does a construction worker earn?." WikiAnswer 05 06 2008

technique

When I stared looking up stuff about drifting i wanted to know what i could to do to be a good drifter. So i went to wikipedia and they had a lot of info on the sport. They had stuff from the top cars from the the top drivers to Techniques. One technique that i knew already was were you push in the clutch and pull the e-brake. But one that i not know of was downshifting.Its for very tight corners, allowing the driver to approach the corner at a slower speed and lower revs, while allowing quick acceleration when exiting the corner. But this technique can be very damaging to the engine. One way that i would have never thought of is pushing in and out your clutch to send a shock through the powertrain, upsetting the car's balance making the back wheels to slip. The 1st way seems easy but the 2nd and 3rd way seems very had to try.

(2008,04,23). Drifting (motorsport). Retrieved April 24, 2008, Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport)

Baseball Hitters: The beginning of the Search.

Starting my search off with this question "Do some players have advantages over others because of where they play?"
But to get to this question I have to start off with little questions to answer this question.
So the first question i'm going to ask is "What players have better batting averages?". It seems that the players with the better batting averages are in the National League.(Baseball-almanac.com) Which means that most of the teams are from the West Coast. The players along the West Coast area seem to have a better chance of playing better because weather around there is nicer then the weather along the East Coast. The season starts in the beginning of April, and in the East Coast the weather is still much colder then in the West.

I took a look at Gary Sheffields stats from across the years that he has played, an before he played for Detroit and the Yankees. He played in teams that were in the National League, such as the LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves and the Flordia Marlins. Noticing his batting average was much better then what it is now in the American League. His batting average then was around .316 and now that he is playing in the American League, his batting average is in the low .200 high .190

"Gary Sheffield." 23 04 2008.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sheffga01.shtml.

cnn wikipedia

Shmueli, Sandra . "'Flash mob' craze spreads." CNN 08 08 15 04 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/04/flash.mob/.


"Global warming." Wikipedia 17 04 2008 17 04 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming.

Fight For Your Team

Athlete Salary: Week 1

What can you do when you're faced with a decision, do you play tetris or do your work like your suppose to? And for once I went against my gut and decided to do my work. So to start my search, I went to ESPN to find out a few different players salaries. The only problem with a topic like mine, would be that there are always people with opinions against my own. For example, when looking up a little information about the Yankees, my favorite team, a Mr. Riccio wanted to throw out his opinion. While submerged in music and ESPN, I hear you like the Yankees, and of course I must reply, "Why you don't?" From this point Riccio is looking down at me, I had to switch the tables on him. Riccio is a average fellow (height and body type: normal), while I'm a little bigger (with a box frame for a body type), so I stood up and started looking down at him. Being the cool guy he is, he keep to his guns but he definitely seemed a little frazzled by my size. From here we started to exchange verbal blows about each other's teams. He said that the Yankees just go and buy there players, I had to reply, "Oh yea that's right Boston doesn't do that." (Sarcasm of course.)


Even though I had this little distraction, I was able to get the information I wanted from ESPN. So it was a good search I was able to find A-Rod salary ("New York Yankees"), along with other players salary, such as Dice-K makes $8,333,333 a year ("Boston Red Sox"). As for the whole day, I was able to walk away with some good information about a lot of different topics, such as how much does a NLL player make, which is an average of $13,000 a season and rookies average around $6,500. This way I can make comparisons between the two. Of course Mr. Riccio thought it was alright that Boston just went to Japan and bought Dicey. I keep my mouth shut I had to get some work done. But hey what can I say the inquiry is going well, hopefully everyday will be as fruitful as today was. And then i should have no problem writing a real good paper.

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"New York Yankees Roster." ESPN 4 16 08 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/roster?team=nyy
"Boston Red Sox Roster." ESPN 4 16 08 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/roster?team=box
"Baseball Salaries Still at Top Notch." New York Times 2 25 1917

Week 1

Shmueli, Sandra . "'Flash mob' craze spreads." CNN 08 08 15 04 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/04/flash.mob/.


"Global warming." Wikipedia 17 04 2008 17 04 2008
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Kielbasa's Citations

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Baseball Hitters: Advantages Over Others 1st ph

As a baseball player, I have played many games at many different fields. Its been on my mind if playing at a different field,besides the one someones plays on regularly, effects them and how there playing there game. The major issue would be if there are advantages to hitters who play at different places. I kind of think there are because some players come into the league playing for a team that may have different weather conditions more likely then other teams that have the same weather conditions more thru the season. I like this topic because if you take for example Barry Bonds he played for San Fransisco. California has better weather then you would say New York. Because New York has more rainy weather during the season. And temperature in the the beginning of the season is different because New York is still going to be cold, an in the West Coast its alot warmer.
I was watching the Yankees game last nite, against Boston, in Boston. The weather was very cold, I think in the mid 30's and A-Rod went 0 for 4. The announcers were saying that the weather may have affected his batting. It may have been slowing down his reaction time to swinging the bat and making contact with the ball.

drifting

I always thought that drfting was boring until my friend got me involed in drifting by taking me to hang out with his friends. the whole time going to the place they were raceing and drifting. I was getting pumped to see real life drifting. We got to the place we got to talk to them. Then his one friend took me for a ride, It was so fun but at the same time so scary. Every time we turned he made i felt like we were going to go in to a pole or a tree. But now after being with them every turn i wanna pull my e-break to try to do it. But i have a lot of questions about it, it seems so cool but at the same time it looks kind of hard to do with out smashing your car up

Athlete Salary: Before the Search

Growing up in the Emilianowicz house few things were expected. You work hard in school, get your share of house work done and watch every sport possible. And if you watch a sport, then you normally have a favorite team, and the house dictates that you like the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres and the New York Yankees. Being younger, I was just following what my brothers were doing, but as I got older I started to really like these teams. Of course I don't like when they lose, but that comes with the territory.

For years now I have wondered why some of my favorite players on my favorite teams would leave. Then maturity set in, and now I understand that money makes the world go 'round. Every time I read the sports page I see stories about athletes making more and more money. Consistently, there is always someone who is complaining about how much they are getting paid. Athletes are getting paid to play to the best of their ability for a set number of games, but how many actually give you there very best every time they play. When I actually look at certain teams, such as my favorite team, the Yankees, they just go out and buy people.

Why does Alex Rodriguez make $27,000,000 a year and $252 million over his contract? Who makes the decision of how a player should actually make? What makes two pro athletes different from each other? If your at top notch form with peak performance, what makes a lacrosse player different than a baseball player? (About $2,542,476.) True, if your playing at a top-notch level, then you should get paid well. But then again, if you're playing terribly, shouldn't you get paid terribly? Basically, in my search I want to figure out if the salaries of major league athletes are justified.


Essential Question
Are the salaries of Athletes justified?
Foundation Questions
Who makes the standards for player salaries?
What makes a difference between two athletes, that turns out to be millions?
Who actually puts worth on a man's (woman's) talent?
If big sports are paying there players exorbitantly, how do alternate sports get paid?