I used to play junior sports, in the lowest tier possible of the sport I played, haha, and yeah dude like, I knew I wasn't going to make it professionally, so I was just like, along for the ride,...
I used to play junior sports, in the lowest tier possible of the sport I played, haha, and yeah dude like, I knew I wasn't going to make it professionally, so I was just like, along for the ride, but holy shit dude looking back what a fucking scam. What a HUGE SCAM.
Take young people out of what's going to give them the opportunity at an actual career later (which is school and education), to break their bodies and give them what has to be like 1/1,000 chances of making it to the big show to cash in on that sweet pro salary.
And like, these are wide eyed teenagers right? They don't have any life experience, they're not thinking how their wrists are going to feel when they're 30 and are behind a computer all the time, or how their knees are going to feel standing on their feet all day, at a manual labor job or something else. They're excited and are gunning for it with the wreckless abandon that only a teenager can go at something with. They have parents who care about them, and don't want to let them down, and see how much their kid cares, so can't help but feed his enthusiasm. Their kid is really good, all the coaches and rave about them. They can't deny them their chance.
The most common outcome are parents with drained savings, and a kid in their early 20s who's super strong who has developed one skill his whole life, and can't make a living doing it. So they get themselves into trouble, booze is cheap and plentiful, or they leave the juniors to make squat in the minors, often both.
What the hell sort of life are we offering these people? We tell them to train like a professional athlete from their early teens to their mid twenties, break their bodies, deny them education in the process, then offer them a pittance because to play to 100s of people in the minors.
Like, I ain't a fuckin' great restaurant server, but there's more than 2,000 server jobs in the country. Imagine if in your field, only the top 2,000 at it got an amazing salary, and everyone else got 5% of that, and that there was so much demand, that everyone was trying to compete to get one of those 2,000 gigs, despite the fact there's almost no chance of making it. That's a scam!
If being stellar at athletics and not making it to the pros sounds difficult, and you have to fall back on that 10k salary, try doing it on the womens side! God speed with that. Even Olympic athletes get forgotten sans that one week every four years, which most athletes only go to once, then they go back to their layman jobs.
In triple-A, the highest level of minor league baseball, the minimum salary is $10,750 per year. At the highest level of minor league hockey, where players are represented by a union, the minimum salary is $47,500.
I used to play junior sports, in the lowest tier possible of the sport I played, haha, and yeah dude like, I knew I wasn't going to make it professionally, so I was just like, along for the ride, but holy shit dude looking back what a fucking scam. What a HUGE SCAM.
Take young people out of what's going to give them the opportunity at an actual career later (which is school and education), to break their bodies and give them what has to be like 1/1,000 chances of making it to the big show to cash in on that sweet pro salary.
And like, these are wide eyed teenagers right? They don't have any life experience, they're not thinking how their wrists are going to feel when they're 30 and are behind a computer all the time, or how their knees are going to feel standing on their feet all day, at a manual labor job or something else. They're excited and are gunning for it with the wreckless abandon that only a teenager can go at something with. They have parents who care about them, and don't want to let them down, and see how much their kid cares, so can't help but feed his enthusiasm. Their kid is really good, all the coaches and rave about them. They can't deny them their chance.
The most common outcome are parents with drained savings, and a kid in their early 20s who's super strong who has developed one skill his whole life, and can't make a living doing it. So they get themselves into trouble, booze is cheap and plentiful, or they leave the juniors to make squat in the minors, often both.
What the hell sort of life are we offering these people? We tell them to train like a professional athlete from their early teens to their mid twenties, break their bodies, deny them education in the process, then offer them a pittance because to play to 100s of people in the minors.
Like, I ain't a fuckin' great restaurant server, but there's more than 2,000 server jobs in the country. Imagine if in your field, only the top 2,000 at it got an amazing salary, and everyone else got 5% of that, and that there was so much demand, that everyone was trying to compete to get one of those 2,000 gigs, despite the fact there's almost no chance of making it. That's a scam!
If being stellar at athletics and not making it to the pros sounds difficult, and you have to fall back on that 10k salary, try doing it on the womens side! God speed with that. Even Olympic athletes get forgotten sans that one week every four years, which most athletes only go to once, then they go back to their layman jobs.