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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: starhawke who wrote (86721)	12/12/2000 3:21:19 PM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Star, ya gotta luv, A Wad's " I want to be the highest Paid Player in Baseball clause in the contract." Guaranteed $1 million more than the next highest player in the Game. I guess the Rangers will be looking for some special foreign aid from Washington in the next four years to help them shoulder the load. lol. Lew

To: starhawke who wrote (86721)	12/12/2000 5:11:37 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Actually, you could have a lot more time than that with Seattle's former shortstop, Alex-It's-not-about-the-money-richest-contract-ever-Rodriguez. At 300 pitches per game, he will be paid about $460 per pitch, whether he's adjusting his cup, eating sunflower seeds in the dugout, striking out at the plate, or throwing the ball into the stands on a double-play attempt. A decent fastball travels around 90 MPH, or 132 feet per second. At 60.5 feet, that $460 buys you about 458 milliseconds of A-Rod's time. Say the pitch was a tad slower and you can get 1 millisecond of A-Rod's pitch-time for each buck. So $120 buys you 120 milliseconds, or about an eighth of a second. That is way more than a nanosecond. <g> --Ben