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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I have seen great minor league baseball games. The players play harder than major leaguers since they want to get called up.
However, even though the games may be very competitive - the major leaguers get paid a lot more. Average salary for MLB is about $4 million. Minor leaguers make anywhere from $4,800 to $14,700 annually. The high-end of this scale is still below the minimum wage in the United States, which as of 2022, is an annual salary of $15,080 for a full-time worker making the Federal Minimum Wage of $7.50.
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I have a theory about this. People go GA, GA over the top level of everything. From primadonna ballerinas and the top male ballet dancers. People get a VICARIOUS THRILL from watching the best of the best .....and THEY get the monetary rewards FOR BEING top dogs. Quarterbacks in pro football get the same GA, GA treatment. There is EVEN a top vocal performer NAMED GA,Ga......which was smart on her part.
.....My theory is that this TOP DOG mentality goes all the way BACK to ancient man and the TRIBAL leader mentality. Very similar to the LEADER dog in a WOLF pack that has the SINGULAR responsibility to get the pack to an advantageous hunting area.
.......People hunger to see the "best of the best" and tend to relatively ignore the rest.
........Years ago, the tennis fans did NOT want to watch the early rounds of a tournament when the ORDINARY highly skilled tennis pros played each other. They waited to see John McEnroe play Boris Becker or Bjorn Borg.