Think football salaries are out of hand? How does $1.35 million/week for ten years sound?

[RadcliffeRick]

I used to go to a lot of Steelers games but that was back at Three Rivers Stadium. The new stadium is a horrible place.

I thought that the Stealers played at Anfield

 

[buckshot]

No, NLL and MSL (Lacrosse) is for North American sports. :)

From my perspective, I totally agree with you regarding NFL and NBA, but I’d add Major League Baseball as well. I think it’s a game I would perhaps have enjoyed playing, but far too tedious to watch. I’d also rate NHL much higher than baseball for spectator value.

Your second point would have similarities to cricket regarding the nuances of the game.

Baseball would be far more interesting if they didn’t wear gloves for catching and relied on the skill of the player.

If they didn't wear gloves scores would be in the hundreds and you wouldn't even be able to have a catcher. Fingers would get broken on almost every play as well and batting averages would be in the .700s.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

If it's any concellation 40% of premier league player file for bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement. That's a scary number.

 

[BimboBob]

If it's any concellation 40% of premier league player file for bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement. That's a scary number.

It also means they have either been badly advised or are fuckwits.

 

[Slipper One]

If they didn't wear gloves scores would be in the hundreds and you wouldn't even be able to have a catcher. Fingers would get broken on almost every play as well and batting averages would be in the .700s.

No problem with the catcher wearing gloves, much like in cricket with the wicket keeper.

Not sure why scores would be any more than they are now without gloves to be honest, so I'd disagree with you on that point.
It would certainly make the game a little more exciting and not dumbed down and easy.

A cricket ball is slightly larger than one for baseball and as hard, if not harder. It has a core of cork with string wound tightly around it and stitched leather case with a seam around the centre to enclose it all.

All players would need to do is learn the skill of catching a ball and as you can see from these videos, no bones were broken in the filming of these catches. :)

BTW.......If a player catches a ball, no part of their body can touch the boundary with the ball in their hands and beyond the boundary with any part of their body in contact with the ground, with the ball in their hands.

The average speeds for a world class fast bowlers and pitchers are probably similar and both would be able to vary the flight and speed of the ball, with cricket having the advantage of using the ground to make the ball move as well.

I have listened to the baseball commentators get apoplectic in seeing a catch and I look at it from a cricket perspective where it's done routinely gloveless and not with a bucket on the end of their arm!!

www.icc-cricket.com/video/3813524

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUUwnBHSCb4


………….and the fairer sex also showing how to catch without gloves.

www.t20worldcup.com/video/3090456

 

[Magicpole]

Do I need to work weekends? deal breaker. I go shoplifting at the weekend,

 

[cleavers]

It also means they have either been badly advised or are fuckwits.

Could be both ;-)

 

[City Raider]

What I don't get is it's a 10 year contract, yet he's 29. Injuries aside, is it really possibly to play top flight baseball at that level at 39?

Assuming no clauses in his contract, his earnings in 10 years will be worth less than now, but still a huge amount every week.

Todd Boehly has form for long contacts

 

[AshtonBlue1980]

Instead of being paid 1.35m$ a week for ten years - stunningly Ohtani wil only receive 2m$ a year !! The rest is deferred so from 2034 to 2043 he gets 103 m a year !!
He won’t starve though as his off field earnings are conservatively estimated to be at least 50m a year …

 

[TinFoilHat]

Is this available in English please

Some bloke gets guaranteed pay of shit loads of cash to play rounders.