The New York Metropolitans. The WCW of baseball. :)
And here are the CRAZY details:
NEW YORK -- The Mets signed Carlos Beltran to play center field for the next seven years. They'll be paying him for the next 14.
Beltran's deal contains $22 million in deferred salary that will be paid out in the seven years after the contract expires. He will be 41 by the time he receives all the money, which will be paid each July 1 starting in 2012 in yearly installments of $3,142,857 plus interest that will accrue at the rate of 1.7175 percent annually.
Like Pedro Martinez, who signed with the Mets in December, Beltran will get an array of perks as part of the contract, including a hotel suite on all road trips and a 15-person luxury suite for all home games, although he must buy tickets for the suite for any postseason games. In the most unusual clause of the deal, the Mets agreed to lease for Beltran an ocular enhancer machine, a device that throws colored, numbered tennis balls to batters at 150 mph or faster.
A question. If he leaves the Mets for another team after the seven years, and is still getting paid by them, could that be considered to be a conflict of interest by collecting monies from two teams?
What if he has a bad game with his new team against the Mets? There would be alligations that he tanked it on purpose because he's still getting paid by them.
Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.
(edited by Zeruel on 18.1.05 0337)
(edited by CRZ on 18.1.05 1050)
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Originally posted by ZeruelA question. If he leaves the Mets for another team after the seven years, and is still getting paid by them, could that be considered to be a conflict of interest by collecting monies from two teams?
What if he has a bad game with his new team against the Mets? There would be alligations that he tanked it on purpose because he's still getting paid by them.
Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.
It happens quite a lot that one team is paying some or all of a player's contract. For instance, when Mike Hampton went to the Braves in 2003, the Rockies were paying most of his salary.
Originally posted by ZeruelA question. If he leaves the Mets for another team after the seven years, and is still getting paid by them, could that be considered to be a conflict of interest by collecting monies from two teams?
What if he has a bad game with his new team against the Mets? There would be alligations that he tanked it on purpose because he's still getting paid by them.
Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.
It happens quite a lot that one team is paying some or all of a player's contract. For instance, when Mike Hampton went to the Braves in 2003, the Rockies were paying most of his salary.
If I am not mistaken, when he came to the Braves, wasn't Hampton getting paid by only the Rockies and Marlins?
This would also happen anytime a player is waived while in the midst of a contract, and gets picked up by another team (after waivers expire). Olerud last year was being paid by both the Yanks and Seattle, surely other players as well.
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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