Why is it that Americans idolize their multimillionaires in business and finance, even the sleazy ones, and dislike athletes who make it big?
This post isn't aimed at the specific comment, but at the underlying attitude most of us feel at one time or another.

Why do we hold it against baseball players that they're smart enough to build and hold onto a strong union that gets them a fair share of the pie (in contrast to NBA and NFL players, who have let the owners con them into salary caps)? The villian of A-Rod's admittedly obscene salary isn't A-Rod, or even Boras, it's Tom Hicks. Being filthy rich doesn't mean you don't sometimes have to backpedal to fix a mistake! I've never understood why owners in professional sports insist on salary caps to protect them from themselves and then see themselves as a bastion of free enterprise!
High baseball salaries for superstars ARE inflated and they are a danger to the game. BUT...the good, but not great players and those who have relatively short careers are finally getting a decent return on all the years they put in. Baseball history tells you the owners will screw the players any time they get a chance. So why the hostility to highly-compensated players?

I guess I like to see "labor" get compensated at a rate that is reasonably proportionate to what "management" routinely skims from any halfway successful (and a lot of unsuccessful enterprises).
Sorry this rant got so long. Comments?

Dave N