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WEEI is outlining exactly my issues with pro sports. They're outlining the enormous wealth gap and how sports is used to shake people into thinking there are different classes of income that are directly related to ability. That is FALSE.
We, as sports consumers, spend huge amounts of time discussing the intricacies of contract disputes and collective bargaining **ONLY WHEN IT APPLIES TO ATHLETES AND THEIR RELATION TO THEIR BILLIONAIRE OVERLORDS** Where is the country-wide discussion on USPS employees? Amazon?
Regular folks usually never see a fucking contract. Most people never even get to be part of collective bargaining. Most people think that the idea of being able to collectively bargain is far-fetched. Yet it's accepted as necessary for people that entertain us.
Players get caught up in it. They are overpaid, bit they aren't the main culprits. They're who we see, and Jerry Jones gets to be puppet-master on his yacht, using his vast network to fuck his employees and plant narratives that make fans mad at greedy athletes. I want heads.
WEEI is just doing their job and trying to whip up some fervor around this shit, and obviously there's a huge piece of the puzzle missing. We have more in common with players because usually they were poor less than a decade ago. Fuck owners. Fuck billionaires.
I'm also forced to listen to WEEI and if you weren't listening to their programming around 5pm this thread looks stupid.
