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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
Are these guys worth millions? Who knows. What they do is pretty freaking tough but at the end of the day a man is worth what someone will pay him.
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It's not a matter of whether any individual player is worth millions (I think they all earn what they get paid, by definition).
A salary cap is used in other sports, the NBA, and I think the NFL. It isn't designed to prevent individual players from getting paid millions and millions (see Kobe's paycheck, or any NBA player's paycheck), it is designed to help create at least some parity among the teams. Which, IMO, is a good thing.
Pro sports are entertainment, and a league seems more entertaining when its not a situation where really 75% of the teams have little to no chance, based solely on their geographic location in the country (small market teams have little chance in MLB, they can't generate the revenue like the Yankees, Dodgers, etc., so they can't simply "buy" wins like the Yankees do).