{"id":41,"date":"2010-07-21T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:12:13","slug":"one-more-irritation-over-the-strasburg-signing-bonus-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"One more irritation over the Strasburg signing bonus complaints&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/specials\/fortunate50-2010\/?eref=sihp\">This is the annual &#8220;Fortunate 50,&#8221;<\/a> a listing of the highest compensated american athletes based on salary plus endorsements (there&#8217;s a separate international list).<\/p>\n<p>Look who ranks at #11.\u00a0 Matthew Stafford.\u00a0 He of one year of production in the NFL, leading his team to a 2-14 record.\u00a0 $26 MILLION DOLLARS in bonuses this year, mostly due to his #1 overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>And people were losing their minds because Strasburg signed for 4yrs $15M guaranteed??<\/p>\n<p>Other things to note on this list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#20 overall; i;m obviously not a football fan, certainly not a redskins fan, but i read enough coverage to know that Haynesworth certainly isn&#8217;t worth the $24.6M in bonus money he&#8217;s collecting this\u00a0 year.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say &#8220;boo hoo&#8221; for little Danny boy except that Karma is a bitch and he gets everything his little napoleonic meddling egotistical body deserves.<\/li>\n<li>#28: Darrius Heyward-Bey.\u00a0 Who??\u00a0 $21M for some 2nd year no name nfl player?<\/li>\n<li>The general lack of endoresement money for some people.\u00a0 I love it when guys make millions of dollars in salary but have zero endorsements.\u00a0 You might as well put a sign on their head that says, &#8220;I&#8217;m an arrogant pr*ck and everyone knows it, so I have zero endorsement deals beyond appearance fees for mandatory press shows.&#8221;\u00a0 Terrell Suggs best example; $24M in salary, $75K in endorsements.\u00a0 Probably from an Eastern Motors ad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at the international version too.\u00a0 Lots of soccer players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the annual &#8220;Fortunate 50,&#8221; a listing of the highest compensated american athletes based on salary plus endorsements (there&#8217;s a separate international list). Look who ranks at #11.\u00a0 Matthew Stafford.\u00a0 He of one year of production in the NFL, leading his team to a 2-14 record.\u00a0 $26 MILLION DOLLARS in bonuses this year, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[980,383,1220,979,38],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonbaseball","tag-albert-haynesworth","tag-dan-snyder","tag-darrius-heyward-bey","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-stephen-strasburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}