Monday, February 09, 2004
I WANTED RAY BARONE INSTEAD
At least Ray Romano's character comes through every time.
Like Jeremy said, Ron Villone is once again a Seattle Mariner, continuing the parade of former Mariners who will come back and be crappy for your 2004 Seattle Mariners.
Jeremy posted the SportsLine link, which I was just about to link before he beat me to the punch.
The one part that gets me about that wire article, though...
In addition to his salary ($1M), Villone can make up to $1 million in performance bonuses.
[Small note to Jeremy -- I emailed the Blogger folks and we now have bold type that works!!! Yippee!! We can now bitch in bold type!!]
The $1M was bad enough...but to tack on another million's worth for incentives? This is so incredibly stupid in every way. This guy has the chance to double his fricking salary?! Granted, hopefully what Villone would need to do to get that extra million is something lofty, but man...there's no way that base salary should be $1M...the Mariners were bidding against the damn Pirates, for God's sake!!
Once again, I will remind everyone that the Mariners have made two defensible moves all offseason. One: buy out John Mabry's contract. Two: sign Eddie Guardado. What's more pathetic, as I've said, is that Bill Bavasi wasn't around for the Mabry buyout. He probably would have given him $30M over 4 years.
Like Jeremy said, Ron Villone is once again a Seattle Mariner, continuing the parade of former Mariners who will come back and be crappy for your 2004 Seattle Mariners.
Jeremy posted the SportsLine link, which I was just about to link before he beat me to the punch.
The one part that gets me about that wire article, though...
In addition to his salary ($1M), Villone can make up to $1 million in performance bonuses.
[Small note to Jeremy -- I emailed the Blogger folks and we now have bold type that works!!! Yippee!! We can now bitch in bold type!!]
The $1M was bad enough...but to tack on another million's worth for incentives? This is so incredibly stupid in every way. This guy has the chance to double his fricking salary?! Granted, hopefully what Villone would need to do to get that extra million is something lofty, but man...there's no way that base salary should be $1M...the Mariners were bidding against the damn Pirates, for God's sake!!
Once again, I will remind everyone that the Mariners have made two defensible moves all offseason. One: buy out John Mabry's contract. Two: sign Eddie Guardado. What's more pathetic, as I've said, is that Bill Bavasi wasn't around for the Mabry buyout. He probably would have given him $30M over 4 years.
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