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Originally Posted by Bocabirdman
My father, recently retired, has his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering. Back in the Seventies, he went for an extended trip to the Aleutian Islands to work, fine-tuning an Early Warning Radar installation. The company he was working for paid him time and a half while he was there AND continued his regular paychecks back home for the family to live on. I happened to see one of the paystubs. Overtime aside, he was making $40K a year. At the same time Yaz made headlines for signing a $500K contract...for 3 years. I remember thinking, "Gee a baseball player makes a little more than 4 times what a man, doing his best to protect the country against Russian missile attack, makes." About 6 months ago I was helping him get some financial stuff in order and he mentioned that through promotions, raises and switching companies over the years, he peaked at $350K a year. AROD makes WHAT?    |
As Keith Hernandez remarked on a recent telecast, "these are the wonderful things that Marvin [Miller] did." IMHO, the owners should have called Marvin's bluff and reminded him that there is a new crop of players coming out next year, the year after that, and the one after that, and so on. Plus, the players had nowhere else to go--no stadiums to play in, no mass-marketing money, no TV or radio contracts.
Now, how many guys do we have making $15,000,000/yr. or more under long term contracts in their thirties, and not producing enough to actually earn even a small fraction of that? Let's have no more than two years guaranteed, and get the focus back on producing enough to actually help their team, rather than just showing up for a big paycheck (see Joe Nathan) and tying up a ton of team money that could be used for improving the roster!
Best wishes, guys,
Larry