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Originally posted by northernflame@Feb 10 2005, 02:15 PM
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sorry I'm too lazy to read the whole link
but I would guess the difference is when Ray Romano gets a billion dollars a year....all of us with TV sets suffer equally (or thankfully change the channel)...it's not like LA is 'stealing' him from Milwaukee
[I]when Bruce Willis gets 20 Million a movie, it doesn't change the fact that Atom Egoyan can still make a cheap quirky movie that will be watched by his niche of fans,and billions of Bruce Willis fans can go on watching their movies
when you have unequal markets competing for assets, that's where the problems lie[/I]
you don't see that in the NFL and as a result I don't hear nearly as much complaining about whether Brett Favre is overpaid or not...he's a rich guy, like Willis or Romano, but his industry can afford it...and the good people of Green Bay wisconsin don't worry about losing him to Dallas or New York
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You are falling into the fallacy of cost driving ticket prices again.
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ummm. no I"m not. I never mentioned ticket prices
I've never blamed NHL salaries on ticket prices, and frankly I don't mind paying what I do to watch the Flames
I also not rabidly pro-cap
I do think there is in an economic imbalance in prosports that partially feeds a competitive imbalance though
edit: and just to show we're on the same page, the last movie I saw was Hotel Rwanda, at the Globe, in mid-January. maybe we were there the same night.
I guess I figure all movies are 12 bucks b/c Willis movies are bloody expensive but millions watch them, whereas Hotel Rwanda will be watched by less people, but each willing to pay more for a quality show. Don Cheadle probably makes more for the "Oceans" movies than he did for a tour de force role in Rwanda--but I guess he's savvy enough to know the Oscar buzz will bump up his marketability....I'm digressing I think