Opinion: Major League Baseball salaries are one reason fans are turning away from the game

Re “Isn’t baseball fun?” (March 2): For me, baseball was fun when I was 12. To great excitement, Manny Machado gets a $350 million contract, a price almost equal to the total cost to build Petco Park.

Given the problems in the world, the trickle down cost to fans, no, it isn’t about fun, only about money, greed and grown-ups jumping and dancing like they were still 12.

I’ll not support this obscene salary. What a waste.

Russ Stumman

Escondido

OK, someone has to be “Negative Nellie.” If a ball player is worth $31 million a year, such as Manny Machado, why isn’t a schoolteacher, a Ms. Machado in second grade, worth at least $10 million?

Compare the impacts on people’s lives/futures and the importance of education vis-à-vis a sporting event.

I rest my case.

Judith Wenker

Hillcrest

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