[aquila48]

In case people are wondering...

“Cole Hamels signed a 6 year / $144,000,000 contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, including a $6,000,000 signing bonus, $144,000,000 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $24,000,000. In 2018, Hamels will earn a base salary of $22,500,000, while carrying a cap hit of $22,500,000.”

[The Sons of Liberty]

He really won't miss it then, but there are a LOT of other sports figures with super contracts like this, who never give a thought to those less fortunate, so I wish him nothing but the best.

Happy Clinton Impeachment Day!

On this date in 1998 The House of Representatives
made William Jefferson Blythe (“Bubba”) Clinton
only the second President to be Impeached.

[Mmmike]

How has it come to pass that so much $$ changes hands over sports? I mean, the figures were nothing like that 25 years ago...