[ale] <Off TopicL> McGwire

[Williams, Jim]

You guys are nuts.  We have a free market that pays well for exceptional
talent.  Just because we like free software, do not become socialists.  If
somebody will pay it, you are not overpaid.  Same holds true in the computer
job market.  If you can add enough to a product or project to make it worth
more would you do it for less than what the job market dictates if you had
some control over it?  I do not see a thing wrong with making as much as you
can as quickly as possible then moving to a Latin American beach somewhere
where the days are hot and the ladies are hotter.
BTW, compared to the rest of the world we are all over paid.  Why shouldn't
our athletes be?

One other thing the strike year was '94.  Your very own Braves won it all in
'95.

Jim Williams
Business Systems Analyst
Accu-Tech Corporation
jwilliam at accu-tech.com <mailto:Jwilliam at accu-tech.com> 

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Kevin J. Schmidt
[mailto:kjs at babbage.netops.mindspring.net]
		Sent:	Wednesday, September 09, 1998 12:47 PM
		To:	ale at cc.gatech.edu
		Subject:	Re: [ale] <Off TopicL> McGwire



		i totally agree. who cares that he broke a record. athletes
in the
		US are over paid, imho. 

		i remember the cancellation of the '95 world series over
money. all the ball
		players were crying "boo-hoo i make 3 million a year and
need more money!"
		it just goes to show that they no longer care about the
game.

		> Isn't anyone else here rather ticked that these guys
		> get so much publicity and money for playing a game we used
to play
		> for fun when cops are out there taking bullets and
protecting us
		> for minimum wage?
		> 
		> Remember how the ball PLAYERS canceled the '95 world
series over
		> money?
		> 
		> Robert
		> Thus spake Chris_Fowler at nad.adp.com
(Chris_Fowler at nad.adp.com):
		> 
		> > I am hearing that the Mark McGwire Rookie card is
selling for 10grand.  I
		> > have one and need to know where to get rid of it at.
Any ideas?
		> > 
		> > 
		> > Thanks,
		> > Chris Fowler
		> > 
		> > 
		> 
		>
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		-kjs