WHY???So the ultra rich can get a little bit richer? What a disgusting load of crud. I stopped going to professional sports years ago it's puke ugly, but so is Goldman Sachs. It's the ugly reflection of our present day gilded age.

This is an insult to working people. No athlete is worth this much money.

Symptomatic

It's a little like buying an genuine VanGogh. The supply of VanGoghs is extremely limited, as is the number of people who can afford one. Is a VanGogh worth $30 million? Well, not to me, but then again I don't have $30 million to throw around. But if I was an egocentric billionaire and bored enough not to know what else to spend my money on, who knows what I might buy?

Personally I hope A-Rod has another great year. Why not? It won't cost me a dime either way, and seeing him fail won't make me any richer.

Once we all realize that we are officially living in The Bizarro World, life becomes easier to bear. Next thing ya know, China will buy the Yankees. You heard it hear first.

I think of future generations of Yankee fans whining about the Curse of the K-Rod, or "Mr. October," as I like to think of him. He brings nothing but a big bat and bigger ego to a team during the regular season, and disgrace during post-season. I cannot in any way fathom the idiocy of the HankyMan in letting Torre go (the man who brought record numbers of post-season wins to the team) and paying big bucks to keep K-Rod. I'm going to become a Dodger fan.

This is obscene and I find that our priorities are out of touch. A hole is a pig.

What's the big deal? It isn't my money or anyone's who comes to this site money. The market in which A-Rod works pays for the salary and if he doesn't get it the fucked up Steinbrenner family will pocket it and no one will even know it. I love watching the NY Post go through their usual nonsense on this. Funny how they chuck the whole capitalist system when a Latino pulls down a few million bucks. Was anyone out there howling when Kurt Schilling signed his salary with Boston? I don't think so.

What a bunch of crap. NO ONE is worth 300 million!

I stopped going to Professional Baseball years ago & much prefer to watch the local guys play on a sand lot. It's a freakin' game. $ 300,000,000. for a pitcher ?
Baseball used to be America's game because it wasn't Polo, it was a game with
$ 2.00 seats, hot dogs, soda pop & cheap beer. It was a game of the people, by the people, and for the people. Now, like the Government, it's a game played by multi-millionaires exploiting the desperation of the average citizen to have some joy in an otherwise dismal existance. The Government today is like the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, totally corrupting the ideals that got them there in the first place. Goldman Sach is negotiating a ball players salary ? As a kid, I understood that a pitcher would pitch 9 innings because it was about endurance. Today some joker goes out to the mound and is replaced after 6 innings, pitting a totally fresh pitcher against tired out fielders.
What a match-up ! The pitcher can't even lift a bat . There is a " designated hitter ". Bat too heavy to lift ? Perhaps the players could hire a Butler to carry the ball out to the infield. Players use steroids, an insult to players like Mantle, Arron, Gherig, and Ted Williams who bust their butt to set the records they set. The modern " records " are meaningless, a sham to draw suckers to the ball park. Perhaps next, players will sit on an air conditioned bench and do online Stock Trading as some robot goes to the plate for them , and, useing a diamond bat smacks a Home Run over a two foot fence 25 feet away from Home Plate.

I'll sleep easier tonight knowing A-Rod is looked after.

Scott Boras should be fired. Pulled that crap on the last night of the world series (makes his client look like a jerk), blew the fist round of talks, and obviously did not have a big play in this sit down (or so it seems in the WSJ)...maybe Gerry Cardinale should freelance as a sports agent.

And before anybody bitches about him being overpaid, blah blah blah: remember that NOBODY is forcing them to pay him. If somebody meets your asking price, you're NOT overpaid.

Couldn't happen to a nastier SOB.

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