by Phyllis
Obviously I am aware of the free agent signings in Major League Baseball this off-season. I have previously blogged about a couple. So I know the amount of money that is being thrown around. But I wanted to write a little about one little news story today in the abstract. Or at least somewhat in the abstract.
Andy Pettitte today rejected a one-year, ten million dollar contract offer from the New York Yankees. Take a minute to digest that. Don't look up what he made last year, don't think about what other players make. Just reflect.
What? Someone offered him $10,000,000 for one year's salary. He (well, actually his agent) said no. How can this be? What kind of a world do we live in where a man can be offered that kind of money and refuse it? The only explanation that will make me feel better inside, and that only slightly, is that he is planning to retire, he is not up to the rigors of next season, he can't do it anymore. (He is 36, you know. And by the way, he does plan to play next year.)
Forget it. Even assuming that, it all makes me ill. It really does. Sick to my stomach. Depressed. Dissatisfied. And disappointed in my fellow man.
Not just at Andy, either. How have we as a society enabled this kind of thing to be? Can't we make this stop somehow? Yeah, I don't think so either. And it makes me ill. Have I said that already?
In all seriousness, what would you NOT do in order to earn ten million dollars over the REST OF YOUR LIFE? It's a pretty short list for me.
"Hey, Phyllis, money's not everything."
Reading a story like that sure makes me want to believe you.
2 comments:
It is beyond my comprehension, that kind of money. I don't suppose he's refusing because he knows it's just too much. No, that would be the farthals thing from his mind, I'm guessing.
In about 1959, when I was nearly 19, I was quite vocal among fellow employees, and I wrote a letter which included a statement like this: what is the world coming to when a guy can get $50,000 for throwing a baseball?
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