When we play, we keep score and then measure our athletic worth in terms of wins and losses. As long as our culture continues to strive to be the best, i.e. win, owners will continue to pay outlandish salaries to those who will take them to the top. It is inevitable. To bring it a little closer to home, it would take a minimum wage earner 23,525 years to earn a quarter of a billion dollars. However, at the end of the contract's life, if A-Rod can bring Texas a World Series trophy or two, there is no doubt that some owner in dire need of a championship will make another free agent's salary look more like the national debt.
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