Stop Telling Me That Sabathia's Contract is the Largest Ever for a Pitcher
by Freneau on Dec 10, 2008 11:36 PM EST
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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!
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OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG
by Matt Klaassen on Dec 11, 2008 12:00 AM EST up reply actions
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Yay!
Wish I still liked the show, but hey…it’s Pam!
A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.
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
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 Matt Klaassen on Dec 11, 2008 3:20 PM EST up reply actions
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.
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
sarcasm i assume
OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG
by Matt Klaassen on Dec 11, 2008 7:32 PM EST up reply actions
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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?
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