You don't complain about those greedy F'in cabbies. The problem is we blame the athletes because the owners have conned us into their product. The product is important to us and we continue to pay to be involved with it. The owners aren't gonna trim costs, they will keep upping the ante until we stop paying. I do strongly believe the players belie they are worth much more than they are as people, but as cash producers, as marketing tools.
Players create the money in their actions.
I don't mean to try and diminish the marketing departments and the clever methods of entertainment the leagues and teams have come u0p with, the bottom line is the guys that lace them up, create the game, the game is whats sold. You have to consider how much comes in, versus how much your asking for. To us the fans whipping out a nifty trade is fun, its swapping baseball cards, but the reality is their are a lot of things to consider before trigger a trade. The first of course being the fan side. If you trade Shareef Abdur Rahim, you better return a comparable player or your gonna cause much more damage than existed.