09-18-2023, 01:12 PM
(09-18-2023, 11:40 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: It's a huge amount of money for an everyday person, but let's cut Joe some slack.
Mike Trout has a $426 million contract and he's hurt a lot.
Mookie Betts $365 million.
Plenty of baseball players make more than Joe.
They actually don't. There are plenty of baseball players with more job security than Joe, but 0 who make more than him.
There are only 3 people making at least $40m/yr in baseball. One of them on a 1 year deal, one of them on a 2 year deal, and Aaron Judge at $40m/yr flat on a fresh 9 year deal.
Mike Trout is making $35.5m/yr, Mookie Betts $30.4m/yr. Burrow got $55m/yr and will almost certainly get more later while that's it for those other guys careers.
Not to say I don't agree with some of the point you're trying to make, but you're trying to make it in a really disingenuous way by ignoring the reality that $55m/yr is a ton of money regardless of sports. Average salary-wise, I think he's 3rd in the world in all of sports behind just Mbappe and Messi in soccer.
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