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Most of the professional athletes are being paid more what they’re worth. For an example, Alex Rodriguez gets paid 32 million dollars just to play baseball. That is $253,968 per hit. “The highest-paid type of doctor averages just over $500,000 per year” from Chris Mueller in the article “Two Sides to Every Coin: Are Professional Athletes Overpaid?”. Two hits from Alex Rodriguez that he can get in one game than the highest paid doctor averages in a full year. Our president gets paid 400 thousand dollars a year while running and controlling our country but athletes are getting paid millions just for our amusement and, on top of that they get millions of extra dollars from sponsors. An example of athletes being paid too much, Mihir Bhagat says in his article “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?” “The No. 1 overall pick in the '07 draft. He is on a six-year $68 million contract, with $31 million guaranteed. In simpler terms, that means that despite currently being recognized as one of the biggest busts of all time, and even if he were to get injured tomorrow and never play again, he will still have $31 million in the bank. In any other job, if you don't perform to your expectations, you're fired. There is no guaranteed money”. This means that people that are skillful in college can sign a big contract for millions of dollars and they can get injured their first play of their first game and be out for the rest of their career. What is really crazy is that professional athletes get mad if they don't have two or three million more than they are offered when there already swimming in money. Other athletes think that they are getting paid too much for an example drew brees quarterback for the New Orleans Saints told to nesn ...

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...y when u could go across the street and get a six pack for cheaper and save money. If you also go to the patriot place in Foxboro massachusetts right next to Gillette Stadium they charge you a lot more money because you are near Gillette stadium. Over all professional athletes are getting overpaid for what they are worth while other professions deserve the money.

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