Musicmic, before you say anything - I would like to apologize for what could be perceived as the negative tone of my last post. You certainly added a legitimate gripe, and I was wrong to take such a negative tone. My apolgies, it was not meant to be personal.

I do think that heroes have a very important place, and they do not replace parents involvment in their childs life. It is wrong to assume that just because a kid wants to have a ballplayer as a hero that there parents are doing something wrong. Kids need plenty of heroes.   

There SHOULD be a certain amount of consideration as to why a ballplayer gets paid lots of money. The idea of putting together a professional team is to entertain fans. Professional atheletes do differ from musicians and other artists because of the factor of competition. Sports can be a metaphor for life and how we win and how we play the game SHOULD be considerations.   Winning at any cost should not be the way to win a game, nor should it be the example we set.