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By Saber S. Poder, N.P.

INCREDULOUS: In an old AP story, an agent named Leigh Steinberg was trying to make us feel better about the astronomical salaries in major league sports. At the time, ten million was beyond astronomical.

“And for people who find that incredulous,” he said, “it’s the same as yelling at a softdrink machine saying it’s ridiculous to put a dollar in when the same @#%* can cost five cents in your youth.”

At the time, a dollar for a drink was also a shock.

Of course, Steinberg should have said incredible. Or avoided the risk and said unbelievable, which is what incredible means.

Incredulous means unbelieving, so we could say that the people were incredulous over the incredible salaries.

But we’d never say that, would we.

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