Stop Telling Me That Sabathia's Contract is the Largest Ever for a Pitcher

by royalsreview on Dec 10, 2008 11:36 PM EST in News Comment 27 comments

To take one of an endless number of availible examples:

Sources told Olney that, to get the deal completed, the Yankees added a seventh year to their original six-year, $140 million offer, bringing the total package to seven years and $161 million -- at $23 million a season, by far the biggest contract for any pitcher in history.

Really? You mean that Sabathia is going to get paid more in raw dollars than someone in the 1970s? The 1980s? The 1990s? Wow, that is so helpful to know. Relevant and noteworthy too. Don't tell me its the largest free agent contract of this decade or even the last three or four years. No, that wouldn't be the obvious point, not at all. Honestly, I'm most upset that someone hasn't investigated Sabathia's contract relative to Andrew Carnegie, Louis XIV or the Hapsburgs. I mean, its $160 million dollars! Can we possible overstate this enough?

No.

Guess what? I just drove to 7-11 and bought a Big Gulp and a hot dog. You would not believe the prices! The hot dog was over $2 dollars! When I was a kid you could buy a hot dog from 7-11 for .89 cents!

One thing is clear:

HOT DOG PRICES ARE THE HIGHEST IN HUMAN HISTORY!!

Not only that, but hot dog prices are currently higher than any processed mostly-beef snack foods on a bun have ever been. EVER! In 1817 you could buy a salted horse-tongue sandwich for three cents and a ball of hair. Today, we're over $2 dollars!!

Can ANYONE save us from this mysterious trend in which prices seem to "inflate" I guess you could call it?

And don't even mention the insane prices we're paying for drinks, chips, shoes, combs, pencils, pez dispensers, books, socks, posters of Michael Phelps, siding, ice skates, maps, fudge, shaved ice and toothpicks.

Plainly, our national innocence is in peril.

What evil mastermind is behind this!?!?

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This is why is started reading Royals Review.

Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!

by mazoboom on Dec 10, 2008 11:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Dec 11, 2008 12:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Mr. Royals Review

You are an absolute riot. Salted Horse Tongue Sandwich? Awesome. <— I refuse to stop using this word.

I'm about to change my username to DannyDuffyfan

by jackie ballgame on Dec 11, 2008 12:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

So you're saying C.C. can buy fewer hot dogs than before? or more?

hmmm

by ZeppelinDZ on Dec 11, 2008 12:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

about the same as Balboni could in the 80s

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 3:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just to recap

We racked up 720 comments on a day we RE-claimed a 3rd baseman-turned-pitcher who has never pitched above single A and just had labrum surgery.

I did that math in my head, no pencil.

I'm about to change my username to DannyDuffyfan

by jackie ballgame on Dec 11, 2008 12:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I know

incredible

this fanbase is starved and dedicated

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 2:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i miss the incomptent Mariners

F-Gut AND Branyan

if they acquire Huber I’m going to kill myself

bury my heart at Grass Creek

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Dec 11, 2008 12:06 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

but we have meche and hoagy

and olivo
and ho-ram

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 2:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well its no wonder they used inflation

CC looks like he’d be particularly inflatable. Can’t you just see him floating down the street in the Thanksgiving day parade

by raefzilla on Dec 11, 2008 12:30 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

do you like the standing up ballons

or the weird, facing forward kinda flying looking ones?

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 2:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Definitely the latter

by raefzilla on Dec 11, 2008 2:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

In 1983

A Quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, and chocolate shake was $2.84 (After tax)

by KHAZAD on Dec 11, 2008 5:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

The price of oil is really high, too.

Just a reminder everyone: the world is pretty much doomed. Got anyone important to do with your life? Please do it in the next 150 years before civilization breaks down.

By 2040 we could face a major fossil fuel crisis. YAY.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Dec 11, 2008 5:54 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

"AnyONE important to do"?

Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!

by mazoboom on Dec 11, 2008 7:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Freud was right!

Of course, I meant “anything,” but hey….I think the message still gets through. ;)

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Dec 11, 2008 9:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Dec 11, 2008 9:26 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yay!

Wish I still liked the show, but hey…it’s Pam!

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Dec 11, 2008 9:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it is funny, but on the show, you don't get the impression that Pam is thin or has much of a figure

part of the part I suppose
I guess if she showed up for work dressed like this, Michael would have a stroke

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. - Collected sayings of Muad'Dib

by buddyball on Dec 11, 2008 11:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I see it

although don’t know what she looks like below breast level

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 3:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

She is a TV "girl next door" who actually looks like the girl next door

cute with hot potential, and oh so corruptible …

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Dec 11, 2008 3:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's like when there is a hurricane somewhere in Florida...

and news reports keep saying that the storm is the most costly and damaging in history… sure… it’s because people keep building stuff down there in hurricane-prone areas.

by Deaner on Dec 11, 2008 10:06 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

how does CC's contract compare to Babe Ruth's

in terms of relative costs of hot dogs and beer?

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. - Collected sayings of Muad'Dib

by buddyball on Dec 11, 2008 11:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

just listened to simmons podcast

he laid out with the biggest contract ever line

shocking

by royalsreview on Dec 11, 2008 5:49 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

sarcasm i assume

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Dec 11, 2008 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

query

I get the exasperation with the talking point, but I ask this — may it still be entirely true that Sabathia’s contract is the largest ever for a pitcher, even adjusting for inflation? I’m sure the wild and wonderful internets have a list of all-time largest pitcher contracts & years, and I’m also fairly sure the internets have an inflation calculator (hmm, see here).

Maybe some enterprising, exasperated blogger might go forth and prove this constantly-repeated talking point wrong?

by KC Gunner on Dec 11, 2008 10:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs