8 Years @ $200 million? Red Sox = New Yankees

to this point I haven’t done a good job.

Based solely upon the information you are using for your post and on the info most of us (me included) are getting from the rumor mill & occasional direct quote from the players:

My original response was that I have a hard time with players “reportedly” struggling making a decision like CC did and like what is “reportedly” going on with Tex. They are both very similar…CC & Tex’s situation, with the large sums of money being the center of everything despite “geographic/family” needs. And I believe that most people feel the same way when you consider what these players do and how much they are getting paid to do it. Is it hard as hell to get where they are…YES. Does anyone that works really hard deserve to get as much as they can EARN…..YES!

But you see, these players, either thru their comments or from those of their agents give off the perception to most of us that they are not in touch with the fans who support them. So the sarcasm you hear is due to trying to understand how an athlete who is fortuneate enough to be where he is at struggling with amounts of money he will probably never spend in his lifetime (if he has a brain).

The latest responses I have given were to your point and I quote:
"We ALL look for the gig with the best pay or the best perks – not just to support our families, but because we feel as though we deserve those things based on our skills, experience and past accomplishments. "
That generalization is certainly not true and I gave my own personal response to that since the question were directed at me. My response was addressing that and had nothing to do with the Sox lying to their fans.

The responses that I have been getting have a certain sarcasm to them…I get it.
In the end, it really depends upon what kind of lifestyle you feel you need and the amount of money it is going to take to support it. If you are fortuneate enough to get paid doing what you love to do and that also supports the lifestyle you need, than you are truly a fortuneate human being.

What I am trying to grasp is the professional athelete.
1st: you have to have been given the God given talent / be born with it whatever you want to call it to (in this example), be a professional baseball player.
 2nd: you need to be fortuneate enough to recognize it and be able to develop it to it’s full potential.
Naturally, there is going to be alot of competition and with that competition comes the drive, for most, to elevate themselves even higher. Typically for most of these young atheletes, this also drives and feeds their egos.
At this point, when these atheletes make “the show”, I often wonder what it is that drives them to play. But with all of these amazing contracts I begin to question their motivation. Surely the love of playing the game initially. But are they playing to be the best at their position, or are they playing to win a ring. Some are fortuneate enough to do both, but as we have seen that is not too common. Where this delema becomes clearer is later on when players “test the market” as is their right to do.

Plenty of examples can be given. Do I need to be specific?

What is your profession, maybe we can be more specific.

In the end, it’s all subjective my friend. It will come down to what you do and how you honestly feel about what you do. It will depend upon your own personal ethics with how you do business and who you are chosing to do business with as well.

And, FWIW, Teixeira is considered to be disinterested in Baltimore & Washington precisely because they’re not contenders.

I don’t think a team would “lower itself” by signing Manny. I just think they’d be taking a big risk on affecting the team unit. Manny is an incredible ballplayer. He’s just not the kind of guy I would want on my team.

A: you can pay someone to do it for you.
B. you can afford to have a fancy heated driveway. They do exist!

I love the snow……to visit once every 5 years.