Make More Money And Run Their Leagues By Jay Caspian Kang Summary

Jay Caspian Kang, the author of “Should Superstar Athletes Make More Money and Run Their Leagues?”, wrote a persuasive article on July 25, 2017, that superstar athletes should own a league. Therefore, Kang compared superstar athletes to world renowned leagues’ owners. As a guide to assist Kang in persuading the reader — athletes and fans — that are interested in investing leagues and superstar athletes salary income, the author applies imageries, em dashes, and logical appeals in the article. Henceforth, Kang’s attempt to appeal to the audience of the positive results from increasing the athlete's salaries strengthen his argument. Generally, Kang provides imageries alongside with his explanation in order to engage the readers into paying more attention to his statements. In the introduction paragraph Kang introduced, “At a glance, and taken individually, they looked a lot

To begin with, Kang inserts a patho appeal by narrating, “And yet, thanks to some creative accounting that showed a few teams operating at a loss, the players had to limit what they could earn to ensure the financial health of their billionaire owners.” The quote above is a very powerful emotional appeal to the readers illustrating the unfair treatment between the athletes and the owners which further persuade the readers that increasing the athlete's salary is a great idea. Correspondingly, Kang adds, “The league promotes this rabid attention as proof of its strenthen, but the players’ strengthen is mighty, too.”” Notably, the quote above is very impactful to the readers since the author emphasized teamwork as the root of strength and they should get paid accordingly. Likewise, pathos appeal are effective because the appeal assist Kang in persuading the readers’ emotions to lean for increasing the athlete's income. As a result, patho appeals are contributing an immense amount of convincing persuasion for Kang too the