Worst contracts in sports history
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Not sure, but I believe your numbers to be about 10M too high. I think it was a 3 yr. extension in the neighborhood of 21M. At any rate, too early to call that one a bust yet.
I will give you a bullet the Tigers did dodge though - Juan Gonzalez turned down a 140M contract (7 yr.) offered to him by the Tigers, back when we opened the new stadium. Whew, close one there.
And you wonder why Alyssa Milano dumbped him for 20-game winner Brad Penny?
If she hooks up with a player, it's someone who can actually play well.
Jerome "Big Snacks" James gets $5 million a year to sit on his ass at the end of the bench and do nothing, get fat, get phat, and stay out of shape!
The Red Sox had one in the early days of free agency, also. Does anybody remember Skip Lockwood? B-U-S-T
Vin Baker was a non-performer for the Celtics.
Poor Jack Clark wound up broke because he has trouble with big numbers. He didn't understand the difference between $9 million dollars and infinity, so no matter what his agent and financial managers told him to not do, he did it anyway because he thought he was making enough money to do whatever he wanted. The first time I saw Clark play for the Red Sox, he hit a home run that I feared was going to put a hole in the guy in the stands who tried to catch it, but it was all downhill from therre.
The worst contracts, from a team perspective, are contracts that stay on the books due to salary cap rules, like the Allen Houston contract. Vin Baker similarly put a $6 million a year anchor on the Celtics for several years.
When someone gets injured after signing a big contract, there's no use crying over spilled milk. The team couldn't reasonably have predicted the person would get injured, like Albert Belle.
Whatever Sidney Ponson got paid was too much, and ditto for Carl Pavano. One promising season does not a career make.
Poor Jack Clark wound up broke because he has trouble with big numbers. He didn't understand the difference between $9 million dollars and infinity, so no matter what his agent and financial managers told him to not do, he did it anyway because he thought he was making enough money to do whatever he wanted. The first time I saw Clark play for the Red Sox, he hit a home run that I feared was going to put a hole in the guy in the stands who tried to catch it, but it was all downhill from therre.
The worst contracts, from a team perspective, are contracts that stay on the books due to salary cap rules, like the Allen Houston contract. Vin Baker similarly put a $6 million a year anchor on the Celtics for several years.
When someone gets injured after signing a big contract, there's no use crying over spilled milk. The team couldn't reasonably have predicted the person would get injured, like Albert Belle.
Whatever Sidney Ponson got paid was too much, and ditto for Carl Pavano. One promising season does not a career make.
Nearly every year, the New York Knicks give some has-been a $5 million a year, multiyear contract under the mid-level exception, that left them with ten guys getting over $5 million a year when most teams only had three, yet nearly all of those players were useless. They had a salary cap figure of $120,000,000 last year when the cap was under $60,000,000, but you wouldn't take on the contracts of maybe ten out of twelve of those players even if you didn't have to give up anyone to complete the deal.
HA HA!!! Well being an Oakland A'S fan these moves at the time made me mad!! I now however am very happy!!:clap:clap:clap
I dont even know where to find the terms but Im going with Vinny Baker and Pervis Ellison.
"Not in Service" Pervis may still be collecting.
"Not in Service" Pervis may still be collecting.
HOW IN THE WORLD did he get drafted ahead of Pierce, Dirk, Jamison, and Vince Carter?
You could help me out when I put up my "NBA Draft Busts" thread after the NBA Finals are over...
During the early days of free agency there was a second baseman named Rennie Stennett that was awarded a million dollar plus contract with the Giants and in two seasons and 158 games proceeded to hit .240. This after having a pretty good career with a lifetime .280 avg. Not ever mistaken as a slick fielder, Stennnett kicked the ball around at SS making 15 errors in about 100 games.
Mike Hampton with anybody....If somebody farts within 100 miles of this guy , he ends up on the DL..
