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Originally Posted by alnorth
If a baseball player is so out of touch and immature that they are "insulted" by an offer worth more than 10 million a year, then I don't want that player on my team. If its too low, fine, but I'd expect both sides to be rational adults about a salary negotiation.
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Exactly.
I remember many years ago when Rickey Henderson signed a contract that made him the highest paid player in baseball. He was all happy and smiling. Then a couple of months later (still in the same offseason), somebody else signed a bigger contract. Henderson got pissed off and said he wanted to renegotiate.
That's about the time I stopped giving a damn if a player gets insulted by a contract offer that pays him more for one season than most people make in their lifetimes.