Athletes are SPOILED - phillycannon1720's Blog

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Athletes are SPOILED

Posted on January 21, 2009 at 04:52 PM.

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Todays athletes are something else. Especially if you happen to play in Philadelphia. Ryan Howard one of my favorite players on my favorite team is one of the biggest violators of this notion. First of all I read in the newspaper that he wants like a multi-year 150 million dollar contract. I love the guy, love his hitting, but you can't honestly tell me that an overweight, streaky first baseman deserves a contract like that. First of all he's not a young gun anymore (29 years-old), he comes and goes in terms of production. Yes I was on the forums defending him because people believed he was not the NL MVP this year, I know Pujols had a more consistent and productive year and statistically he had a way better year than howard. But back to the topic, This year in arbitration he's asking for 18 million dollars. One year 18 million. Now if we were the Yankees, we'd have the payroll to sign him to a 5 year 100 million dollar deal, but we are not the Yanks. Bill Giles is not Hank Steinbrenner. Amaro knows he doesn't have as much money to work with as Cashman. So Howard wants 18 million and the Phils offer 14 million which I believe is reasonable. If Ryan Howard wants 20 million a year he better go play with a corny team that's going to be stupid enough to pay him those figures. Yankees don't got that much dough,Red Sox don't,Mets don't. These teams have big name players signed to high dollar contracts already. Maybe a team like the Nationals would offer it or the Orioles.These teams have some cash for him. He can go there hit 40-50 homers year, collect 20 million a year, then go on vacation because these teams won't ever win anything.Cole Hamels who signed a 3-year 20 million dollar deal. Yeah he could have gone to arbitration and made more than 6 million this year. But why go through it. Hamels wants to WIN. He knows this is his best shot to win for a long time. Howard obviously doesn't care. He wants to get paid only. If he cared about winning he would sign a 3 year like 35 million dollar contract. But he won't he wants A-Rod money. Problem is A-Rod plays for the New York Yankees, who by the way hasn't won a World title since 2000. Another guy who I love is Donovan McNabb. He has a couple years left on his deal, but he wants an extension. Uhh Donovan you're a 32 year-old Qb who can't win the big one. Sorry I love your talent but you haven't proven being worth an extension.Athletes are big spoiled babies. Manny Ramirez won't sign a contract. He wants 2 year 45 million. Man-Ram isn't getting any younger and can't field for his life. Why would a team do that. These guys are all talented bu come on give me a break. Some people can't afford to feed their families and these guys are whining about making 14 million instead of 18. Give me a break guys.

Comments

# 1 matt8204 @ Jan 22

I understand what you're saying, and especially in these economic times it's hard to have sympathy for multi-millionaire athletes. However, think about it this way; look at all the money they make for their owners. It's the players that everyone comes to the ballpark to see. They're the drawing card and they make the owners rich. Yes, they can be out of touch, but why shouldn't they be compensated handsomely? It's all about supply and demand. People are willing to shell out large sums of money to go see these games. No one is forcing them to do it. If someone was willing to fork over money to watch me do my job, I'd be rich also.