Incoming Kershaw Mega Deal

[YouthofToday]

The sad part is the teacher helps to pay Kershaw his salary if they have cable or satellite TV even if they hate baseball...

[Erick McClendon]

Supply and demand.

ECON 101

Yeah pretty much. How many teachers in the US versus how many people that can pitch as well as Kershaw...

[stormngt]

Dodgers outclassing the Angels again, locking up a young proven stud.

 

Is Arte watching?    The disparity between the two clubs has gone from All-Angels straight to All-Dodgers.

 

Depressing.   At least lock Trout up.   I'd be more tolerant of the moves for all the other jackasses.

Excuse me....How is the Dodgers extending their best pitcher making Arte look bad?  Didn't he sign re-sign his best pitcher a few years ago?

 

People, if you are going to criticize people please do it when there is a good reason.  To bi*** just for the sake of bi***ing, makes legitimate complaints look weak.

[stormngt]

I don't know...still different circumstances. Kershaw was going to be a FA after this upcoming year. Halos still control Trout for 4 more years(2014-2017)

If the Angels are stupid enough to wait until the last year of arbritration to extend Trout, then yes, I would agree Trout would be looking at 8 year 250 million.

 

Instead, if the Angels were smart, extend him in May 10 years 220 million.

[stormngt]

Good for him if true, but I won't believe it until I see it.

 

Look, it's not like I'd think any less of him if all he cared about was the money.  It's just that I keep hearing that he could care less about money and now he's making almost $31M per year.  Just calling a spade a spade, that's all.

Ok this is stupid.  Should the guy work for 500k just to prove to you he doesn't care about money?  God bless the man for being able to earn his big contract.  AND if he has any moral character he will take a hefty change of that money and give back to the community.

[stormngt]

Arroyo would make sense for the Dodgers.  He would be a very good #4/#5 for them.  His main goal would be to pitch as many innings as possible.

 

How many damn pitchers do the Dodgers have?  Don't they have enough pitching depth as is?

[stormngt]

No but their parents do.

 

 

BOOM

don't get it?  Please explain?

[fan_since79]

Not only is it obscene, but its very telling about what our society values. Kershaw might inspire some young people, although perhaps only to try to be something that they possibly can't be, while a teacher will impacts hundreds, even thousands, of children, helping them in their educational development.

 

It doesn't bother me that Kershaw is paid more than teacher, but that he is paid 748 times more.

 

Speaking of ratios, the CEO's of some Fortune 500 companies are paid at least a thousand times more than workers at their company. Walmart's CEO has a retirement plan worth $113 million, which is more than 6,000 times bigger than the average 401(k) balance of a non-executive worker there.

 

The typical retail employee in America would have to work almost three months straight of overtime just to match the hourly pay of some of these CEO's.

 

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/2013/466-hours-overtime-equals-hour-ceo-pay/

Edited January 16, 2014 by fan_since79

[IEAngelsfan]

You would think with this whole interweb thing that people would actually do a little research before they post.

Embrace the googles, folks.

Hey, I always embrace the googles.....oh wait, you mean the internet site.....sorry, carry on.

[Tank]

Supply and demand.

ECON 101

 

taught to you by a teacher making a whole lot less than kershaw.

[HaloFan85]

Ok this is stupid.  Should the guy work for 500k just to prove to you he doesn't care about money?  God bless the man for being able to earn his big contract.  AND if he has any moral character he will take a hefty change of that money and give back to the community.

Just because he gives back to charity or his community (something just about every professional athlete does for tax purposes), it somehow means he doesn't care about money?  Or is it because he says he doesn't care?

 

He doesn't have to prove jack to me and I could care less about his contract. He's the best pitcher in baseball and deserves to be one of the highest paid. I just find it funny he now has the highest AAV ($30.7M) in baseball history and people still want to say he gives two shits about money.

[Lou]

interesting. a huge percentage?

how much does he donate?

 

Anyone?

[Caralho]

No clue, I know Kershaw has an orphanage in Namibia. 

[fan_since79]

...found this little fun fact:

 

For $30.7 million dollars, you make enough money (before tax) each year to….

 

pay Babe Ruth's entire career salary (ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION) nearly twice.

 

http://baseballcontinuum.com/2014/01/15/30-7-million-dollars-a-year/

 

 

[VariousCrap]

interesting. a huge percentage?

how much does he donate?

 

 

 

I've read and heard different info in the past, but 20%+ is what I remember reading somewhere.

[Jimmag]

I think he has donated to help eliminate cat juggling.

[ABC]

Speaking of ratios, the CEO's of some Fortune 500 companies are paid at least a thousand times more than workers at their company. Walmart's CEO has a retirement plan worth $113 million, which is more than 6,000 times bigger than the average 401(k) balance of a non-executive worker there.

 

The typical retail employee in America would have to work almost three months straight of overtime just to match the hourly pay of some of these CEO's.

 

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/2013/466-hours-overtime-equals-hour-ceo-pay/

 

 

The typical retail employee might want to try work work his/her way up if they don't want a minimum wage paycheck.

[mrwicked]

The typical retail employee might want to try work work his/her way up if they don't want a minimum wage paycheck.

 

right.

step 1: don't be typical.

[LAAMike]

I think that 20% would be somewhat of a ceiling on charitable deductions as the IRS will only allow a deduction up to 20% of your earnings.