Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The 100 Million dollar contract
There have been several 100 million dollar contracts given out over the past decade. Starting with the 7 year 105 million that Kevin Brown was given by the LA Dodgers. There has not been very many of these deals outside Jeter and A-Rod (original texas deal) that have been succesfull. There have been plenty that have been unsuccesfull or even worse. Lets start with Barry Zito in SF that deal has never panned out and at one point in time they were paying a guy 27 million dollars to sit in the bullpen. Lets not forget Ken Griffey Jr. Then there is Carl Crawford and well we all know how that has turned out. That deal has gotten one of the most succesful GM and a manager that I would hire intantly to run my team Fired.There are at least 3 possible candidates in this years free agancy pool that will be asking for this kind of money. Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, Jose Reyes The first question is weather there is a GM out there that even considers the idea of this. I am going to go on a limb and say that with the success or lack there of Boston had with Crawford and Lacky that the cubs wont be offering anyone a multi year triple digit contact.The next question is should these guys even be asking or expecting these type of deals when the back end of them puts them well into there 30's or even 40's. Albert Pujols to make 20-30 million a yr for this year and maybe next ok maybe, but he has declined in all 3 major offensive catagories in the past 3 years. Prince well he had one good year and that just so happen to be his contract year and Reyes well lets not even get me started on that guy. Here is a guy who has missed 191 games over the past 3 years and expects a 100 million dollar multi year deal give me a break. This guy may fool the Miami Marlins into this kinda of deal because the GM in Miami aka Florida has no clue how to run a team. Here is a guy that after winning 2 world championships reduced the budget the following year to NOTHING both times. Lets not forget to mention you have Ozzie Guillen as your manager a guy who cannot get along with himself let alone run a ball club. The bottom line is this there should be no room for these type of contracts in Any sport these athletes say they play the game because they love it. They say they have families to provide for thats why they ask for this amount of money. They say that they could have a carrer ending injury and never play again thats why they need this much. I have a news flash for them I also have kids to provide for I also served 10 years in the USAF and put my life on the line to defend the place they play a game. I never made anything close to 100 million dollars. I am a huge baseball fan and will be for the rest of my life even if everyone of the players managers coaches and anyone in the orginaztion is overpaid. The annilitics of baseball is this putting 15-20% of your entire payroll into one player is just not smart and if all these guys really just want to win then they should prob take less money so that you can sign more big names and build a TEAM. The Texas Rangers are a prime example of this they dont have the 100 million dollar man matter of fact they traded not 1 but 2 of them away when they started to get bigger than the TEAM concept. The Texas Ranger clubhouse is one of the tighest nit groups in MLB and all though leaking the tape of the game 7 pep talk given by Ron Wasington cost someone there job it may very well help the Rangers land a big free agent. I know when I heard the tape I wanted to play for the Texas Rangers and Ron Washington. Baseball used to be America's pastime I am hoping that one day all of the Big money and flashy cars go away and we just get back to the game. The Say Hey Kid never got paid 100 million dollars and he still comes to the ballpark on the corner of third and King everynight to support the game he loves. One day I hope we get back to all of that. Go Giants
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