Ball players are paid, often quite handsomely, for their talent. But it s a single-dimension measure of what they do. It s all how glowingly they pitch or tackle or dunk. The kind of person they are, or seem to be, is irrelevant. A race driver s career earnings depend only partly on how well he executes the skills of the sport.
Bad image means no sponsor.
No sponsor means no money. Ergo, driver needs a good image. I propose a system for compensating ball players the way race drivers are paid. The winning team gets its money back. The losers get just enough to pay for the athletic shoes they wore out during the contest.