Man, can you believe it's already baseball season again? It seems like only a few days ago that I was watching the Cardinals win the World Series. Maybe it's the fact that we didn't have a winter this year. Or perhaps it's simply that as the cosmos continues its incomprehensibly massive expansion further and further into the realm of the unknowable void, time itself is speeding up, imperceptibly at first, but increasing exponentially.These athletes are performing in a market where there is HUGE demand. The English Premier League, NBA and NFL, for example, operate to a global audience which fans the demand for coverage more and more every season. The athletes provide the commodity which allows this market to operate so, due to the basic laws of supply and demand, the more we demand, the higher the price.

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