daver
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The product itself is crappy, IMO. At least the PGA can justify giving out multi-million purses with an exciting product that reflects the very best golfers competing in a setup that rewards great performances. But the product is secondary in this case. It is a essentially a strategic write-off for political purposes. There appears to be zero correlation between it's prospect to be a decent business undertaking and it's sustainability; it's backers do appear to care about economic realities.
Is this the line that turns people away from pro sports? Where any semblance of "sport" has been utterly removed from the equation. Where players are truly "whoring" themselves out.
Or was this line crossed the very first time someone was paid to play a sport well over a century ago and this is just another progression? It seems like people do not care that athletes make stupid amounts of money or that gambling on sports is almost becoming the primary reason to run a sports league.
Is this the line that turns people away from pro sports? Where any semblance of "sport" has been utterly removed from the equation. Where players are truly "whoring" themselves out.
Or was this line crossed the very first time someone was paid to play a sport well over a century ago and this is just another progression? It seems like people do not care that athletes make stupid amounts of money or that gambling on sports is almost becoming the primary reason to run a sports league.