Well as some of you may or may not know A-Rod is trying to get traded to the Boston Red Sox... but sports has truely met a new salary dilemma... Has A-Rod shown that a player can actually be paid too much money, so as to ensure he will never win a major championship?
A-Rod has has fought so hard to get a 22 million dollar/year salary, that the players' union will not allow him to take a pay cut as that would show baseball that players will sell their own contracts for a shot at a winner. Pretty wacky stuff.
So by making almost 25% of 1 teams' attainable salary, Rodriguez has basically painted himself into a corner, which he will never really get out of... unless the economy takes a turn for the worse and inflation quadruples over the next 5 years.
Will this signify the apex of the athlete's logical salary in team sport? Will owners everywhere recognize this as precedent for a final un-written salary cap?
I find this one to be really ground breaking... or maybe it's not really at all, we'll see.
A-Rod has has fought so hard to get a 22 million dollar/year salary, that the players' union will not allow him to take a pay cut as that would show baseball that players will sell their own contracts for a shot at a winner. Pretty wacky stuff.
So by making almost 25% of 1 teams' attainable salary, Rodriguez has basically painted himself into a corner, which he will never really get out of... unless the economy takes a turn for the worse and inflation quadruples over the next 5 years.
Will this signify the apex of the athlete's logical salary in team sport? Will owners everywhere recognize this as precedent for a final un-written salary cap?
I find this one to be really ground breaking... or maybe it's not really at all, we'll see.
