re rickey henderson in article apr ra msstate edu js isis msstate edu jiann ming su writes in article ls d vinns appserv eng sun com str maredsous eng sun com todd rader writes stay in school you have a lot to learn learn what i know that million dollars is a lot of money i know rickey henderson doesn t have a career out of baseball i know if he didn t have baseball he wouldn t be making near the money he is now and michael jackson jack nicholson and bill cosby wouldn t be making near as much money if they weren t entertainers so what s your point i just don t understand how some athlete who only plays a sport for a living for millions of dollars say he is not being paid enough if nobody will sign him for his asking price he will be the one hurting the a s will still win without him will they you can t usually take away one of the team s best players and still expect them to win or do you think the pirates will continue to win without barry bonds remeber many of these athletes have nothing if not for their athletic ability nothing they are getting paid much more than most hard working citizens and they are complaining of not enough pay so again jack nicholson gets paid much more than most hard working citizens and much more than rickey henderson for that matter i don t have a problem with them making millions my problem is when the say they aren t being paid enough when they already get million also their numbers get worse the reason the latter often happens is that many of these folks start making the real big salaries late in their career when they are on the decline there are exceptions of course dave parker fell apart after making his first million because he put most of that million up his nose jim mann stratus computer jmann vineland pubs stratus com
