Leaving $$$ on the table

I don't. I would like to know who these people are who always pick on you. Because being mean makes me have a sad.

 

I don't think you understand what the phrase "leaving money on the table" means. Pujols was three years from free agency when he signed his deal. He didn't have a higher offer from another team. He took long-term security over playing out his arbitration years and hoping to make more later. Lots of guys have done the same thing.

 

Malzhan's Vandy contract was also reportedly incentive-laden. He's have needed to win the BCS to make $3 million. His guaranteed salary at Vandy was reportedly going to be $1.2m, basically the same as he's now making at Auburn.

 

Cliff's singing today:

When you're pushed and shoved and almost mugged
It ain't no place to be
So i came to one conclusion
New York ain't for me

From sea to shining sea
And coast to coast
Somewhere in the middle
Is the land i love the most
I ain't California pretty
I can't survive the Great White Way
I'm too dumb for New York city
And too ugly for L.A.

 

And how do you know that he didn't "consider" it?

Just because you choose "B" doesn't mean you didn't consider "A" thoroughly before coming to the decision of "B".

 

In a similar vein, suppose your sister has a higher market value as a hooker than as a stripper. She decides she would rather just strip. Should the sex-workers association be mad at her for driving down the overall market?

Coming up next on RetroRock 105.5, here's Devo . . .

 

Two different job classifications. So no problem as long as she doesn't turn tricks for stripper money.

 

I thought this was another tipping thread.

 

Cliff Lee does not owe it to the union to take the absolute most money he can take.

 

And lots of guys, like Albert, could have made a lot more money playing it year to year rather than buying security. Albert left three years of likely record-breaking arbitration dollars and another three years at or close to whatever the top dollar contract was at the time. He easily left millions of dollars on the table.

Pujols (according to Cot's baseball contracts):
'04:$7M, '05:$11M, '06:$14M, '07:$15M, '08:$16M, '09:$16M, '10:$16M, '11:$16M club option ($5M buyout)

 

Not to be a contrarian, but don't you think it's easy to say that in hindsight, knowing that he maintained his production? Ask an NFL player how fun it is to get to break the bank every year. Some of them do. Some of them tear up a knee and are never the same.