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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1009224" data-attributes="member: 7261">SPOT ON!I would have to do some deep digging into the history of Sports Contracts, but at some point, contracts started to include guaranteed money and Player Unions started demanding full pay for injured players.So while we can point the fingers at players like Bahk and say "You are a SOB, you're hurt, have been hurt, yet you are making MILLIONS!"  Hell, I don't blame Bahk for taking the money, both sides agreed to it.So how and why did all this happen?  Simple, the top players were targeted by owners that REALLY wanted them and to do so, owners enticed them with guaranteed money.  Pretty soon that was the only way to land a player and the guaranteed money, just like salaries got higher and higher.So if anyone is to blame, it's not Bahk and other players that underperform their contracts, it is the owners themselves.  While I complain about guaranteed money all the time and how it has ruined the game for me, I am well aware how it came about and who is to blame for their own "problem".  The other thing that this "issue" makes clear to me, there is so much money being made in some of these sports, that the value of it is nothing but a figure on a balance sheet, that must add up each year to meet the cap, which is all they really care about.</blockquote>

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