Still looking for the "bizarre" part.

30+ years after free agency and it's still a shock to some people that bigtime professional athletes make a lot of money.

I'll tell what what would have been bizarre. If Gary Sheffield had hired some guy to install an above-ground trailer trash pool. You hit 400 homeruns in the bigs and you can afford posh. Hey, right fielder for the Yankees is good work if you can get it.

Then comes the typical morality play: "But that snobbish viewpoint overlooks that Larry Leskanic's job is actually more important to society than Sheffield's, even if salary structures don't reflect so."

Maybe being a contractor is more "important to society" than a MLB player, maybe not. But, if it is, I'd venture to say it's also more "important to society" than Bad Sportswriting.