Actually, it was more like $28 million, but it was pro-rated because the season has already started.
And that figure is just for a season. Not a year, a season. And not an entire season. Maybe four months.
Let's just look at that a minute. $18,000,000. (Man, that's a lot of zeros.) He'll have maybe 12 - 14 starts. He won't last the entire game. Maybe the most he'll pitch (that's throw a ball) is eight innings. That's about $1,300,000 a game. Maybe two hour's work. That's $650,000 an hour. My father never made any more than $10,000 a year. Roger will make 65 times that in one game.
And he won't sign autographs.
How much do you make? In a week? In a month? In a year?
I am so fed up with overpaid professional athletes. The way we've (what do you mean, "we," white man?) turned them into our heroes. He can throw a baseball. He doesn't even try to hit the frickin' ball. He can't save a life. He can't teach a kid how to read. He doesn't take all his millions and try to make the world a better place. (I don't want to hear about "charity" golf games, okay?) They don't use their influence for social change. They just get fat.
If you don't see something wrong with this picture then I feel for you.
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