Mets land Juan Soto

[discolé monade]

 
Superstar outfielder Juan Soto and the New York Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told ESPN on Sunday night, the largest deal in professional sports history.

The deal includes an opt-out after five years and no deferred money, sources said. If Soto opts out, the Mets can void it by increasing his annual salary in the final 10 seasons by $4 million -- from $51 million to $55 million -- taking the total value to $805 million.

we are a ridiculous society. absolutely dumb. 

[SwimOdin]

He should reinvest and become a minority owner in the team. That’s so much money.

[André Toulon]

I really want to politicize this but I won't 

[molarbear]

9 hours ago, discolé monade said:

 
Superstar outfielder Juan Soto and the New York Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told ESPN on Sunday night, the largest deal in professional sports history.

The deal includes an opt-out after five years and no deferred money, sources said. If Soto opts out, the Mets can void it by increasing his annual salary in the final 10 seasons by $4 million -- from $51 million to $55 million -- taking the total value to $805 million.

we are a ridiculous society. absolutely dumb. 

Honestly? It's a dumb number, but Baseball is one of the only sports I know that generally stays up with inflation.

Every 10-15 years you get a wave of record breaking contracts. People thought A-rods 10 year, 100 million contract 20 years or so ago was outrageous.

After that, 100 mil became the number get in the door to start negotiating with Elite level talent like that.

 

[discolé monade]

13 hours ago, André Toulon said:

I really want to politicize this but I won't 

don't hold back on my account...

[discolé monade]

9 hours ago, molarbear said:

Honestly? It's a dumb number, but Baseball is one of the only sports I know that generally stays up with inflation.

Every 10-15 years you get a wave of record breaking contracts. People thought A-rods 10 year, 100 million contract 20 years or so ago was outrageous.

After that, 100 mil became the number get in the door to start negotiating with Elite level talent like that.

 

and still, does not make sense to me. 

i mean i completely understand what you are saying, but i didn't get the reasoning for people in sports, or any arena for that matter "deserved" that amount of money for doing their job. 

[scoobdog]

50 minutes ago, discolé monade said:

and still, does not make sense to me. 

i mean i completely understand what you are saying, but i didn't get the reasoning for people in sports, or any arena for that matter "deserved" that amount of money for doing their job. 

I would argue that football players or boxers might deserve that kind of money on account of the extremed physical punishment drastically shortens their life spans, but in baseball that's kind of absurd.  Part of it is me thinking that making those two sports absurdly expensive should be enough to trigger fan backlash against violent sports.

 

[molarbear]

12 hours ago, discolé monade said:

and still, does not make sense to me. 

i mean i completely understand what you are saying, but i didn't get the reasoning for people in sports, or any arena for that matter "deserved" that amount of money for doing their job. 

I mean... some crypto dudebro just paid 4 million dollars for a banana that was taped to a poster board

 

 

[discolé monade]

On 12/12/2024 at 12:56 AM, molarbear said:

I mean... some crypto dudebro just paid 4 million dollars for a banana that was taped to a poster board

 

 

my god. humans are the dumbest animals.....

[molarbear]

18 hours ago, discolé monade said:

my god. humans are the dumbest animals.....

That's not true!

There's a lot of really smart, and compassionate humans out there. We're just completely unchecked in the food chain and modern medicine prevents a lot of needed Darwinism

[discolé monade]

8 minutes ago, molarbear said:

That's not true!

There's a lot of really smart, and compassionate humans out there. We're just completely unchecked in the food chain and modern medicine prevents a lot of needed Darwinism

fair enough. 

[MasqueradeOverture]

Watch him tear his ACL during spring training.

[discolé monade]

exactly this. 

SOMETHING that will keep him mostly on the injured list, and STILL getting paid. 

we've all seen it.