Winners and Losers in the Money Game

Everybody whines, “Baseball players make too much money!” I am so sick and tired of this non-issue. The real point is that teachers, for instance, don’t make enough money.

It’s a free market. If the world thinks sports figures make too much money, then change the market, but quit blaming the players.

I guess baseball looks easy to most of the world, so that must mean it’s not really a profession, it’s only a game. Those guys aren’t really working for a living, they’re simply pursuing a hobby, I suppose.

And another thing. So what if some of the players arrived at the All-Star game in limos [July 9]? Why should they be different from any rich person? Would it have been more appropriate if they had been dropped off by a ’62 Dodge Dart?

KRISTIN HORNBURG

Los Angeles

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I will be 80 in January. I have been a university professor, junior high and high school teacher, newspaper and magazine writer, disc jockey, public relations counselor, celebrity publicist, bakery truck driver, Pep Boys salesman, newspaper carrier and some other things I have forgotten.

I figure that over the years I probably averaged about $25,000 a year (I earned $127.11 a month on my first job as a junior high teacher). That means I have earned about $1.5 million in 60 years on the treadmill.

Mike Tyson worked approximately 10 minutes on June 28, bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear and since they have decided to fine him $3 million, he’ll earn only $27 million for his efforts.

He thinks he was robbed? Hey, I think I was robbed.

DIXON GAYER

Huntington Beach