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Regardless of which Sport, they are all basically the same, OVERPAID! Can someone please tell me why the****** these guys get paid so much money for playing with um A BALL?! Not to mention the fact they keep jacking up the prices just to watch them playing with the BALLS! How about the price of a hot dog at the ballpark, anyone seen that lately? If you don’t agree, I took the liberty of doing some research on their salaries, yes thank ME!

The highest paid player in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2011 season is New York Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez with an annual salary of $32,000,000, nearly $6 million higher than the second-highest paid player, Vernon Wells.

Rodriguez has signed two record-breaking contracts over the course of his career. First, he signed a $252 million, 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers in December 2000 ($340,090,435 inflation-adjusted from 2000 dollars). Sandy Alderson called the deal "stupefying," while Sports Illustrated noted that Rodriguez's early salaries under the contract ($21 million) would be greater than the annual payroll of the entire Minnesota Twins team that year ($15.8 million). The deal was the largest sports contract in history, doubling the total value of Kevin Garnett's $126 million National Basketball Association contract (the previous record holder) and more than doubling Mike Hampton's $121 million contract, the previous MLB record which had been signed just days before. The Rangers later traded Rodriguez to the Yankees in exchange for Alfonso Soriano before the 2004 season, though they agreed to pay $67 million of the $179 million outstanding on the contract. Despite this, he opted out of the remainder of his deal after the 2007 season and renegotiated a new $275 million, 10-year agreement with the Yankees, breaking his own record for the largest sports contract. Under this deal, Rodriguez also receives $6 million each if and when he ties the career home run totals of Willie Mays (660), Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755), and Barry Bonds (762), along with another $6 million for breaking Bonds' mark.

First base was the highest paid position in 2010; regular starters at that position earned an average salary of $9,504,165 in compared to an overall average of $3,014,572. Pitcher Nolan Ryan was the first player to earn an annual salary above $1 million, signing a $4.5 million, 4-year contract with the Houston Astros in 1979. Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989, while 2010 was the first season where the MLB average salary rose above that same mark. Four of the twenty highest paid players in 2011 were members of the Yankees. Their team payroll for 2011 was $202,689,028, roughly $30 million above the second-largest Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees have drawn criticism for their payroll, with some claiming it undermines the parity of MLB.

Okay, so is anyone re-thinking their profession right about now? Hey, I like baseball just as much as the next ‘girl’ but I can’t say that I agree with their salaries, it’s just ridiculous.

Don’t hate on me just because I have the ‘BALLS’ to be honest, hate on me for writing such an awesome review!

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