Dwyane Wade, Ray Allen think NBA players should get paid for Olympics

Patriotism, schmatriotism.

Yes, the United States and other countries have framed their periodic dick-measuring affair in those terms, but that doesn't mean that we or the athletes have to buy into it.

Pay the man.

 

Devil, let's say someone payed a billion dollars form the rights to SJ. And SJ got this billion by promoting and selling copies of your posts. You were a big part of the appeal, let's say. And when the SJ I overlords responded to your inquires about their obscene profits by saying "Well, this will just raise your profile. We get a billion and your get to be more-widely known. It's up to you from there."

How would that make you feel?

The Olympics, much like the NCAA, is not what it once was. It's a business. Much like the Ryder Cup. Someone gets paid a huge amount of money. For the life of me, I can't understand why you want it to be a huge corrupt organization and want the labor to continue to be free just because it's always been that way.

 

And how much should baseball and soccer players be paid?

If Wade and Allen to not want to be paid, let another player take their spot.

 

Whatever they can get.

 

More free labor! Shut up and like it and let the rich make their goddamn money! If you won't work for pennies a day for the good of the State, perhaps someone in China will!

Right?

 

If I was making $10 mil a season, like these guys, I would not give a shit.

I would feel much better about paying the third best fencer we have than these guys.

 

In fairness, there is a long tradition in the Western world of laboring patriotically for your benevolent state overlords.

 

Whatever the market price is for their services?

 

First-page Nazi references are my favorite. Makes for thread gold.

 

Well, at least we've got it on the table now. These ... hmmmm ... um ... hmmmm ... how do I put this ... guys should take what their benevolent corporate overlords have given them to this point and be happy with it.

Every morning, I get to hear truck drivers and pipe fitters call talk radio and bitch about how they make $20 an hour and Running Back A should be grateful to make the money he makes.

I come here to escape that b.s.

 

But enough about Huffington Post.

 

That's slavery and the Holocaust in a few days. I'm going to work 9/11 into a thread soon and capture the triple crown.