View Full Version : Overpaid A** Rod gets more money
soldier one
11-16-2007, 22:19
I didnt see a topic for this or the offical MLB topic so here you go.
What does everyone think about the most overpaid post season crumbler getting even more money?
Honestly i was mad when he go the first deal with the yankees, then he goes and crumbles in the offseason and the yankees go and give him even more money. He gets boo'd there, alot of the fans hate them, and he doesnt deserve that much money so wth is he getting it? Then they go and say if he breaks Barry steroid Bonds record then he will get even more money.
I dont get the MLB, they rather make fans pay 10 bucks for a hot dog and pay players way too much money then lower the price and attract more fans. I mean its more fun to watch the teams in NL and such because they have nobodies, yet they kick yankee ass.
Dont get me wrong im glad he stayed with the yankees because i cant stand them and thats perfect for overpaid players, but **** so many other players deserve ten times more money then him and he just keeps asking for more and more.
AJJets107
11-16-2007, 22:23
Your a Yankees hater aren't you? Why would you care that he gets paid on a team you hate? I love this Yankees and A-Rod hater bandwagon. The difference in A-Rod and Barry Bonds, A-Rod can play.
LMAO this is just as good as the 360 rocks PS3 sucks bandwagon.
An_Ocean_Between_Us
11-17-2007, 08:29
The only thing I dont like about him is he is getting paid too much money. Not just in baseball. No one should get a 275 million dollar contract to play a ****ing sport.
KingJordan
11-17-2007, 15:12
I wish somebody would sever his limbs off with a blowtorch.
grcswoosh
11-17-2007, 15:23
No one should get a 275 million dollar contract to play a ****ing sport.
To be fair, he is maybe the best regular season player in the last 40 years. Playoffs are a different story. No one is putting up the numbers he is. No one. The point is he is getting what he deserves, the owners are raking it in, and he wants his piece. Don't get me wrong, I don't like it either, but it is a business ever since free agency, and this is a part of it. Actors and singers do the same thing. So do everyday businessmen, just on a smaller scale.
An_Ocean_Between_Us
11-17-2007, 20:01
To be fair, he is maybe the best regular season player in the last 40 years. Playoffs are a different story. No one is putting up the numbers he is. No one. The point is he is getting what he deserves, the owners are raking it in, and he wants his piece. Don't get me wrong, I don't like it either, but it is a business ever since free agency, and this is a part of it. Actors and singers do the same thing. So do everyday businessmen, just on a smaller scale.
Hes getting paid 275 MILLION dollars to play ****ing baseball when there are starving children out on the streets man. I just hate **** like this. I still think that when a hockey player gets paid 5 million a year is crazy.
soldier one
11-17-2007, 22:42
The only thing I dont like about him is he is getting paid too much money. Not just in baseball. No one should get a 275 million dollar contract to play a ****ing sport.
At least it isnt soccer :lol: caugh beckHAM caugh :lol:
To be fair, he is maybe the best regular season player in the last 40 years. Playoffs are a different story. No one is putting up the numbers he is. No one. The point is he is getting what he deserves, the owners are raking it in, and he wants his piece. Don't get me wrong, I don't like it either, but it is a business ever since free agency, and this is a part of it. Actors and singers do the same thing. So do everyday businessmen, just on a smaller scale.
Still though 375 MILLION? I mean sure ill give him the fact that he may deserve more money but that much? Where is the next player at ? Something i the 100's which is still to freaking high. I rather have a team that gets the job done day in and day out then have one player that can hit homeruns until we need him too.
Hes getting paid 275 MILLION dollars to play ****ing baseball when there are starving children out on the streets man. I just hate **** like this. I still think that when a hockey player gets paid 5 million a year is crazy.
Sad thing is hockey is the hardest and most welcomed sport around the world yet they get paid less. Then you have baseball which is loosing fans (im a fan still but) i mean they were complaining about tv ratings and how teams are not getting enough attendance. Well maybe if we were not paying 100 bucks for cheap seats we would go. I mean come on put a cap on theese teams please! Let fans be like every other sport and pay a normal price instead of paying players theese amounts of money. Thanks god Dbacks overspent a few seasons ago or in az we would be paying the same.
SE fanboy
11-18-2007, 00:14
Why are you guys mad. Its not like baseball has a salary cap.
Essenshizer
11-18-2007, 07:07
How are you surprised by his salary? I'm not, I figured someone in one of the top 3 sports in America would get a ridiculous salary sooner or later. Lets look at some factors:
grcswoosh said it best, you must admit he is putting up amazing numbers and he will most undoubtedly kill Bonds HR record if he stays healthy (among other records).
Indeed in the post season he sucked and he should have been docked some millions for that in his contract (he does have a good agent though). I loved it though, because I'm an Indians fan and A-rod doing well would've most likely meant=Yankees vs Red sox instead of the Indians.
Additionally, this IS America, we value entertainment more than any other nation in the world as far as I'm concerned. We do almost anything in the name of avoiding boredom. We create the need, and the media fills it, and guess what? High demand will create the conditions for a player like A-rod to reap the monetary benefits of these conditions. Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly believe we should spend more on say feeding people, or not screwing over the katrina victims, fix health care, etc but this is a business and everyone is out to make the highest buck possible.
Lastly, the yanks want a good player like A-rod, and they would love to have the HR record come back to the Yankees club (apparent by the extra $ for breaking it).
There is more but you get my drift.
And don't forget, when he breaks the home run record in a Yankees uniform, he gets a bonus for that as well. lol. My dad is a huge Yankee fan, I could careless about baseball, if they want to give him that much money then whatever.... You have a couple of people in this thread talking about starving children and such, but if you were in the MLB making bank like this, I doubt you would even care.
jakncoke
11-19-2007, 00:41
Yes he's getting overpaid but seriously it's not just him, ton's of players are getting contract they don't deserve...because there is no salary cap.
@ Theft- people only say that because those are jealous tears because they are working hard for less than 100k a year and baseball or really any sports players have made.
Ridge Racer
11-19-2007, 16:06
Yeah poor arod, he's going to starve to death. I'm glad he stayed with the Yankees. I freakin' hate both he and that team and that should ensure that we won't see another Yankee championship for at least a decade. I'm a Cubs/White Sox fan and am a Red Sox admirerer, from afar. arod, for that matter, no one deserves that kind of money. He isn't even the best all around player in the game, Ichiro is! arod is the dumbest player I have ever seen play the game. He has no baseball instincts. He just hits the ball, in the regular season. Come playoff time he might as well be Jacque Jones, thank god he's gone, or something. He should thank his lucky stars the Steinbrenners don't know how to spend money because he hung himself out to dry and found out that all the other general managers in baseball were too smart to pay him that kind of cash. I think it's the other teams, especially Boston, who will be reaping the benefits of this signing.
Dark Octave
11-19-2007, 16:24
Yeah, it's sad that someone can get paid $275 million to play a sport when we have firemen risking their lives and dying for $30k a year and can't get a raise to save their lives. But that's entertainment for you, and you'd better believe the big wigs that do absolutley nothing are looking at that $275 million as chump change.
There are overpaid athletes in all sports. The major sports are billion dollar enterprises, so the as the revenue grows, than so does the player salaries. Hicks (Rangers Owner) went to A-Rod and offered him a 10 year, $250 million salary. With that A-Rod knew that he could get more if he opted out. As far as I'm concerned congrats to him for getting as much as he could. No one but him is benefiting from this, but your all forgetting that the owners (most notably Steinbrener), set the bar in overpaying athletes in baseball. People can criticize him as much as they want, but he delivers and carries team to the playoffs. Yeah, I know he can't deliver when he gets there, but hey alot of great players choke...(Looking at you Dirk Nowitzki).
There are far more players out there that do not deserve and never lived up to their contracts. How about:
Roger Clemons (Stole $18 million from the Yankees this year, congrats to him on that)
Jason Giambi (Roid user...allegedly, doesn't get killed like Bonds does.)
Adrian Beltre
and so on....
We talk about the "REAL" world which is about people like fire fighters and so on. But that is up to the Government, States, Cities, and local towns. They are the ones that decide what they make. Its tax payers cash that pays them...and if you want to pay them more than prepare for a tax raise. I respect these people more than any athlete, but this is how the world works.
If you got athletic talent and the sports field wants to pay you for it...than go right ahead and take as much as you can because no one will complain if the company is paying you for it.
jakncoke
11-21-2007, 01:27
speaking of overpaid, Gil Meche last year, or how bout Giants paying the most all time for a pitcher in Barry Zito and getting a sub-par record.
Also am I the only one to notice our society is moving fast towards a rich get richer society and the poor get poorer ? Also getting a little further off topic but the minimum wage increase did nothing except make our money worth less, it was suppose to help the poor out but how can it help if they inflate all the products? It's the same situation as before and those people are in no better situation and infact there probably in worse.
speaking of overpaid, Gil Meche last year, or how bout Giants paying the most all time for a pitcher in Barry Zito and getting a sub-par record.
Also am I the only one to notice our society is moving fast towards a rich get richer society and the poor get poorer ? Also getting a little further off topic but the minimum wage increase did nothing except make our money worth less, it was suppose to help the poor out but how can it help if they inflate all the products? It's the same situation as before and those people are in no better situation and infact there probably in worse.
No, I was going to mention that also but deleted it. I'm with you on that. Our U.S dollar is going downhill quickly. Our economy is struggling and Bush believes its doing just fine. (stops with political talk).
jakncoke
11-21-2007, 23:54
Last Political Statement, So how many nations monies pwn are's ? 1 more, why is Japan money crap? I thought they had a good economy..
back on topic:
So how many overpaid players will there be this year in FA? I'm guessing a lot as there has been like 3-5 already
Last Political Statement, So how many nations monies pwn are's ? 1 more, why is Japan money crap? I thought they had a good economy..
back on topic:
So how many overpaid players will there be this year in FA? I'm guessing a lot as there has been like 3-5 already
1) Lets see Pound, Euros (I think), and Canadian Dollar. Not sure why Japan's hasn't taken over yet.
2) All of them. HA!
jakncoke
11-22-2007, 00:52
haha that's pretty true, Todd Jones getting 7 , Glavine getting 8, guys at the end of there career in Posada/Rivera getting 40-50 million contracts.
haha that's pretty true, Todd Jones getting 7 , Glavine getting 8, guys at the end of there career in Posada/Rivera getting 40-50 million contracts.
Thats one thing I'll never understand. End of their Careers, but they are the ones signing bigger and bigger contracts. No wonder they don't retire, I know I wouldn't.
jakncoke
11-22-2007, 05:54
That's why David Wells came back last year because the gm's were handing out money like it was nothing, also why Roger Clemens played till last year and if Blue-Jays have there way he'll be playing next year, also Greg Maddox got a 10 million dollar with SD and he's like what 43 ? I know if I were a GM I wouldn't be doing deals like that.
That's why David Wells came back last year because the gm's were handing out money like it was nothing, also why Roger Clemens played till last year and if Blue-Jays have there way he'll be playing next year, also Greg Maddox got a 10 million dollar with SD and he's like what 43 ? I know if I were a GM I wouldn't be doing deals like that.
And Boom! Point is made on this topic. Even though A-Rod or anyone is not worth that type of contract....GM's, owners are willing to hand it out. If a team offered you a contract more than what you are worth, would anyone say no? Not a chance...give me that pen or sign it in blood. Time to move on and let A-Rod enjoy his $270+ incentives contract. HAha.
jakncoke
11-22-2007, 06:31
Basically bitter tears in here from people that will earn about 1-3 million in a lifetime/yankees haters. I am a Yankee hater but I give A-Rod for being smart, if they are going to give him the money..why not go out and get it? But you know people in here and elsewhere will go bu bu he's greedy and act as if they are saints and wouldn't do the same/thread
For teams wanting to make the playoffs, ARod is a solid pickup
For teams like the Yankees who want to win the WS, he is as over-rated as could be
He won't be good for a clubhouse nor will he help that much in the playoffs