People really get paid to run around and tackle each other for 3 hours and get paid in hundred of thousands dollars to play catch.

Yep. They get to travel all over first class; extract a salary you and i can't comprehend; get the very best in healthcare and therapy. Then five years later get to retire and do whatever they like for the rest of their lives !

i have already had this realization, and dealt with the subsequent disillusionment.

do you have to be over 6"2 ? to do it ?