$700,000,000 !!!!

Complete fucking bullshit. I see these famous athletes as actors and actesses. Yes they are talented, but just like anyone, nobody needs that wealth. The fact that wealth exists in the industry is stupid. But people keep tuning in, keep buying tickets and gear and worshipping humans like gods.

It's disgusting.

I can't blame the players. Except for golfers that jumped to LIV. I can blame the system. The TV revenue and other income that comes from Ohtani is huge. But what's happened is ticket prices have gotten to place where, just as it is with other sports, it's become elitist. A lot of kids who live and breathe sports won't ever have a chance to see a game live unless their parents are wealthy. That hurts me. But it's similar in other industries. Families can't afford to take their kids to Disneyland. That's just wrong.
My Mom, who's in her 80's, LOVES the Golden State Warriors, and I bought her tickets to a game. She's now wheelchair bound and, like most venues, they don't offer the best seats. Two tickets and parking cost me almost 800 bucks. I couldn't freaking believe it. I bought them because I REALLY want her to see a game in person but it just made me sick that it's gotten to this place. Never again.
That said, Ohtani deferred a lot of his salary to make it easier for the Dodgers and he didn't have to do that. But still. When the bar gets set that high it doesn't come down. So the system won't change.

That, my friends, in capitalism. The Dodgers owners agreed to his demands and his $$$$. That is the free market in action.

You don't have to like it.

What a total and complete waste of money. No one needs a salary that high. No one!

I stopped watching pro sports years ago because their pay was getting ridiculous. I was a sports addict before that.

Folks were outraged that Babe Ruth was paid more than the president. $80,000 was a lot of money in 1930!

If someone wanted to pay me that much money, I wouldnt turn it down. I could use that money to help other people.

I just bought a lottery ticket that is worth that, in the unlikely circumstance that i win!

It is a business decision. Owners and obviously think he is with it.

I am not a sports fan but I wouldn't pay the ridiculous (to me) price of a ticket that is caused in part by the wages being paid.

Ticket prices are going to double. But LA is a good baseball team they have that kind of money.

Holly shit

My mouth just hit the floor

My brain is still processing this information

I'll get back to you

It’s ridiculous. And, if they don’t win they shouldn’t get paid.

That money is NOT guaranteed at all - that would be if he met every target in his contract


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How long before women will be wanting the same money

You're forgetting that it's taxed at 50%, probably closer to 55%, so what he takes home is $350 million over his 10 year contract at 50% taxation. That's $35 million per year over the next 10 years.

When you consider that professional major league players usually only play to the age of 40, that means that in 11 years from now Shohei Ohtani will be 40.

If he lives to be 90 years of age and he's almost 30 right now, $350 million after-tax dollars divided into his last 60 years of useful consciousness is only $5.8 million per year.

Gross income means nothing except to the ego. After-tax dollars is where the rubber meets the road.

Good for them