Top Ten Worst Contracts in Sports
 

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spt--ta...write-off.html

The list:

10. Lamar Odom, Dallas Mavericks -- Mavericks on the hook for $8.9 million
9. Matt Cassel, Kansas City Chiefs -- Has a six-year, $62.7 million contract
8. John Lackey, Boston Red Sox -- Has a 26-23 record, and a 5.26 ERA with Boston
7. Scott Gomez, Montreal Canadiens -- Scored 11 points in 38 games this season
6. Vernon Wells, Los Angeles Angels -- Batted .218 last season
5. Greg Oden, Portland Trail Blazers -- Played 82 games in five seasons
4. Barry Zito, San Francisco Giants -- Left off Giants' 2010 playoff roster
3. Rashard Lewis, Washington Wizards -- Earned roughly $22 million for low production this season
2. Wade Redden, New York Rangers -- see the details
1. Adam Dunn, Chicago White Sox -- see the details

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Cassel Feels No Disrespect From Repost

LMAO

Yay we're the only football team in the top 10!

That's the only NFL contract in the top ten?

Must be current contracts...otherwise Jafatass has to be on the list.

Without guaranteed contracts, it's hard for NFL players to make the list.

That's how bad Matt Cassel is. :doh!:

casshole is pretty much commiting armed robbery.

But without the arm.

HEY-OH

That was forming in my head as I scrolled down and BAM! There it was. Well played.

But with ALL the pretty

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/s...worth_539w.jpg

And yet there are still STH who drive hundreds of miles and pay thousand$ to watch this BS "in person". Clark and Scott appreciate your money.

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That list is so far off its not funny.

Barry Zito's contract isn't mentioned

****ing Mark Sanchez's contract is worse than Cassel's at this point, its his second one. Sanchez is so good they traded for Tebow to liven up the offense FFS.

It's no wonder this country is so far down the list of... well... anything that relates to education, comprehension, understanding...

ROFL

@!#%&%$(%@#(~*%$!!!!!!!!!

I usually am pretty astute at these things. Its just the kind of day I am having.

Forgiven. I've had those days too often to mention.

It's "astoot", dumpass.

You almost got me with that one.

I remember Mecca championing Adam Dunn for the Royals.

If Pujols doesn't start doing something he will be on that list soon.

Wow, Pioli has given THE WORST CONTRACT IN THE NFL, according to this.

Personally, I think the Kevin Kolb contract seems as bad or worse.

That's a solid observation.

Sadly, for both, there are late round QBs who are better (Stanzi and Skelton) who will not see the field because of the investment made in Cassel and Kolb.

I'm not sure how Carl Crawford, Joe Johnson, and Ryan Howard didn't make the list ahead of Castle. I think Castle's deal is ****ing terrible but it pales in comparison with how bad any of these guy's deals are. I mean the reason Castle's deal sucks is because he was just mediocre enough that we never did anything to get out from under it. We had ample opportunity to not pay him, those guys are all going to make $100M+ to be a Mark Castle.

Castle is handicapping an entire franchise. Can you say the same about the other two?
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Cassel thanks you guys for supporting him financially...

From a contract standpoint, Cassel's is much less of an issue than the others.

A) He's not crippling the franchise because we're not stuck with him for contractual reasons, the team could've moved on several times and didn't. B) His contract is not nor was ever a financial albatross, it was bad but it didn't touch $100M in guaranteed money like those three do. Castle's contract has been terrible without a doubt but the only thing that let it be terrible was a combination of him being just mediocre enough to keep them out of contention to replace him in the draft and management not being willing to dump him and endure being terrible enough to replace him in the draft. Those other three guys when they're getting paid $20M+ a year and sucking their teams are only going to have two options pay them or trade them for someone else's terrible contract.

Not really.

The Kolb contract was backloaded and had an escape clause.

The Cardinals stupidly failed to exercise it, but the contract itself gave them far more wiggle room.

The Cassel contract, OTOH, being a frontloaded monstrosity that had its roster bonus in an awkward 'in-between' spot, is just an absolute abortion of a contract. It was a trainwreck from the second it was signed.

Very few of us could ever make a decision that costs our boss anywhere near the money that Scott Pioli made with that Cassel deal and still keep his job. Yet there he sits, still evidently beyond all reproach.

I know a lot of you like to crack on Pioli but the grounds have never looked better.

A lot of idiots screamed for the Royals to sign Adam Dunn.

Scott Gomez and Vernon Wells are worse deals for the teams though. Gomez is an average player being paid like a superstar. Wells is a well past his prime player being paid like he was in his prime.

Cassel is just a bad QB being paid like an average one because the team has no other options.

#1. The Kansas City Royals roster

and Pioli gets to be a GM.

$60 million is not an average QB contract. He had a one year resume with the Pats. Prior to that he had been a career backup in the pros and college. It was on a whim that he was drafted with a flyer 7th by Pioli. I think Pioli was trying to prove it was another genius pick.

Matt Flynn just got 3/$20 on ~120 career attempts. Nobody is arguing the deal was anything approaching good, just that its merely bad for an NFL contract which has nothing on bad NBA and MLB contracts.