Clemens is the highest paid pitcher in baseball history
Are people aware of the enormous amounts of money that other individuals, at or near the top of their respective entertainment related professions, receive as fees, income, endorsements and/or salaries(for example: television actors; race car drivers; variety, game, and talk show hosts; comedians; magazine and periodical publishers; movie actors; golfers; singers; directors and producers(television and film); rap preformers; tennis players; musicians; boxers; poets, authors and writers(of everything from songs to to science fiction, humor, self-help, how-to books or the latest diet fad; wrestlers; etc.) but I don't think I can ever recall a substantial amount of negative public reaction even after some such individuals have repeatedly acted in a variety of ways that established their character to be entirely self serving, morally bankrupt, and disgustingly unacceptable and/or criminal. Here we have a future hall of famer with the truly amazing ability and talent to remain among the top pitchers in MLB for more than twenty years. He is finally rewarded with the kind of salary having been paid in the NBA for many years, even to first year players fresh out of high school, probably avoiding prison only because they could jump and needed little if any talent since the NBA had nearly run out of players that could shoot, play defense or display any understanding of how to play as a team. I can't understand the hostility or anger, and the attacks on Roger Clemens character are simply strange if viewed from a career perspective.
posted by outathepark at 05:08 PM on January 22, 2005
Clemens is the highest paid pitcher in baseball history
Are people aware of the enormous amounts of money that other individuals, at or near the top of their respective entertainment related professions, receive as fees, income, endorsements and/or salaries(for example: television actors; race car drivers; variety, game, and talk show hosts; comedians; magazine and periodical publishers; movie actors; golfers; singers; directors and producers(television and film); rap preformers; tennis players; musicians; boxers; poets, authors and writers(of everything from songs to to science fiction, humor, self-help, how-to books or the latest diet fad; wrestlers; etc.) but I don't think I can ever recall a substantial amount of negative public reaction even after some such individuals have repeatedly acted in a variety of ways that established their character to be entirely self serving, morally bankrupt, and disgustingly unacceptable and/or criminal. Here we have a future hall of famer with the truly amazing ability and talent to remain among the top pitchers in MLB for more than twenty years. He is finally rewarded with the kind of salary having been paid in the NBA for many years, even to first year players fresh out of high school, probably avoiding prison only because they could jump and needed little if any talent since the NBA had nearly run out of players that could shoot, play defense or display any understanding of how to play as a team. I can't understand the hostility or anger, and the attacks on Roger Clemens character are simply strange if viewed from a career perspective.