Today's Professional Sports Getting Back to Reality

Wayne Co knocked off Edenton last night (7-3) to wrap up that series and will now play Post 58 Thursday night at Nash Central 7.00pm.  Wilson evened their series with Kinston and Pitt Co beat Ahoskie to finish off that series.

The NFL is in the last stages of an Owners strike or as it is known as a lock out.  The NBA is in their first week of ownership saying we cannot exist the way we are going now.  Players crying that they blame the owners for the consequence they are in  it is not the players fault.  Our area of the country has already been in what professionals sports are just now seeing.  Life is not a lottery win every day.

The late stages of 2008 our area felt the pinch of  a world not buying every luxury made.  Early 2009 many local companies were laying off and if you were lucky you were told we are putting on a freeze in wages and in order to keep your job you will not get a quarter of an hour raise this year.

That didn't stop health insurance from going up or the price of bread to rise from 99 cents a loaf to two dollars and there was never a stop in the gas price which hit $4 per gallon on some people.  The business world said if you want to keep your job here is the circumstance we all face.  If you don't like it go find a job that will get you that 25 cent raise this year.

The federal, state, county and local governments are all in the same boat.  The tax dollars are not pouring in like it use too when everyone lived the life of a lottery winner.  Jobs are lost because the government can't send you to the next government job for 25 cents per hour more there are none.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who wins the lottery and ten years later is bankrupt.  Why should I feel sorry for  the worse professional athlete that as the worse makes a half million dollars a year and just because there is a work stoppage he is bankrupt.

There are not as many as we are lead to believe but  there are a few athletes making  ten million or more.  The average smo probably makes 800,000 a year.  If you can't figure out how to save some of that  then you need to come back and dig ditches at $10 an hour and learn how too.

The owners can't fill up stadiums but as owners have a right to try to make a profit in order to stay in business.  They like everyone else thought the good times would last forever.  They built billion dollar stadiums most of it with government money which they find empty seats during every game.  The lottery winning is over.  Athletes may have to accept life like the rest of us and if the average smo can only get a half million  so be it.  You know the Kobe's of the world instead of 15 million a year may have to get by on eight million.  They should all pray to God and be thankful or comeback and dig ditches with us.