HOLIDAY WEEKEND

[Cynical Ninja]

If India is so populous and cricket crazy, how come none of their players make the kind of money that comes with a truly popular sport? Of the top ten
richest cricketers in the world
only two have a net worth in tens of millions. That's total net worth, not salary. The two measly British players on that list don't even have a combined net worth of ten million. The third richest cricketer, some Indian guy who probably smells of curry, only has a total net worth of 5 million.

Compare that to the list of the highest paid baseball players. Not their total worth, mind you, but ONE YEAR's SALARY. How far down do you have to go to get to one worth only five million? Let's put it this way: the list only has fifty names and none less than 13 million.

Per year.

Sure there might be more total countries that play cricket, but they're mostly little pissant countries that suck and can't get their shit together long enough to form coalitions larger than a couple square miles of ruins and sheep farms. Guernsey and the Isle of Man have teams in the so-called "Cricket World League" and they got less total area and population than the average Wal-Mart. Even Monaco has a team and I've taken dumps bigger than that place.

You fuckers will let anyone play that game, because frankly anybody CAN. No skill involved in using a canoe paddle to whack a slow-moving ball, so all the non-athletes over there can feel all special when they get a hit. Meanwhile, not just anyone can play baseball and excel. It's harder than it looks, which is why our best are handsomely paid.

Same with soccer. If it wasn't just a bunch of clowns running around and kicking a ball to each other, we'd probably care about it. We tend to prefer games where there's actual scoring going on, not an hour of jogging aerobics followed by a couple free kicks and a tie game.

Ok time to pick this horse turd of a post apart like a pack of hyenas pick a zebra corpse apart.

So you have had to concede the fact that there are more practitioners of cricket than there are of baseball in the world? Good, I'm glad to see you were finally able to do the “math” on that point.

Now you seem to claiming that because baseball players get paid a lot more than cricketers that somehow makes them better athletes? I'm sorry but that dog just doesn't hunt dipshit! There are orca fat professional wrestlers who can barely frigging move around the ring who earn a lot more than the average cricketer, does that make him a better athlete? I don't think so dipshit! Jim Carey gets paid a lot more per movie than Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino does that make Carey the better actor? I don't think so dipshit! Market forces and the price of tickets and how much sponsors want to pay does not dictate how good or bad an athlete is and never has which is a good thing.

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