REAL Cost of Pro Sports - Baseball
Baseball is the home of the guaranteed contract. Players (through their agents) and team management negotiate contracts for potential services. These contracts are still active even if a player is injured or if a player is not playing due to substandard performance.
Contracts may include deferred payments owed to players after they retire. That means today’s player could be paid from revenues generated in future years! As a fan, how does that make you feel? Isn’t it frustrating to know that team revenues generated through your purchase of a ticket is going to players who are not playing for one reason or the other or even maybe not even with that team anymore? In some situations, a team can be responsible to an active player who doesn’t even play for that team anymore!
Fiscal responsibility is the mantra in TruStar Sports. Players are now paid from the league and not the team that they play for. They are paid a base salary for the time that they’re with a team and also have the chance to earn bonus money. Monies brought in to a common league fund during any one year are the monies spent during that same year. Nothing more, nothing less. This provides fiscal responsibility in the whole league as well as the benefit of balanced competition. Now fans are not being burdened with the costs of departed players.
TruStar Sports believes just like everyone else that some players deserve more compensation than others. That some players should be rewarded more than there counterparts for superior efforts both on and off of the field. To decide which players earn more, member fans create a hierarchy of players with the best or more valued players on top and the lesser valued players on the bottom. The higher a player’s value, the bigger his end-of-season performance bonus.
Read “Power to the Fans” for complete details.
