re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Was that also not about the time that increases in executive salaries started outstripping those of workers by a factor of 100 to one?

I think the time executive pay started that was in the early 80’s right around the time Nolan Ryan became the first player to have a contract that paid him over a million annually. Reggie’s was for 3 million but I think over the course of five or six years. Now 40 years later, a free agent back up catcher probably makes the same amount of money if not more. The other thing though, the young guys don’t make as much as the older guys. Most people don’t hit free agency until they’re in their late 20’s. Now granted because of arbitration, they’re making more than the bare minimum but salaries are a lot more complicated than people think.