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re: What is the worst contract in sports history.
Posted on 6/20/24 at 8:19 pm to EmperorGout
Posted on 6/20/24 at 8:19 pm to EmperorGout
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Pujols isn’t even the worst contract in Angels history. He had a few decent years there too.
Josh Hamilton 5 years 125 million, played a season and half with them.
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Posted on 6/20/24 at 8:24 pm to AUFANATL
If I was those guys in St. Louis, it would have taken a HUGE check for me to walk away from that deal.
Posted on 6/20/24 at 8:29 pm to BZ504
quote:if you have to worry whether or not a player feels like playing, it's probably a sketchy contract
Zion’s
Posted on 6/20/24 at 9:23 pm to West Palm Tiger561
Jacob deGrom’s Rangers contract will be up there by the time it’s over. That guy is never healthy.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 8:33 am to JakeFromStateFarm
I assume that the OP is thinking about players, but is Monty Williams with Detroit the worst coaching contract of all time?
Posted on 6/21/24 at 8:35 am to West Palm Tiger561
Matt McMahon’s contract at LSU has to be up there
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:21 am to West Palm Tiger561
I’m not sure what Chris Davis’ was with the orioles but it had to be putrid
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:26 am to GeauxZone90
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Mahomes is the face of the NFL. If he had a bigger contract their roster wouldn’t be as good. He gets a ton in endorsements which evens out
It never ceases to amaze me some of the takes around here. Probably what keeps hitting the vein and makes me come back.
Mahome’s extension post his rookie deal is 503M Guaranteed and is so fricking complicated with “bonuses” and retroactived signing bonus to circumvent as much CAP space as possible it’ll give you pretzel brain. He’s essentially making 52M & change a year for the entirety of his career in KC, against the totality of that 503M.
Nice gig if you can get it, especially when factoring in the reality that absolutely none of that is endorsement money.
We got a steal and a lifer in KC as he’s officially part of the Royal’s ownership group, owns a chunk of Sporting KC(soccer), him & his wife essentially own the KC Current (women’s pro soccer team) and he, Kelce, Josh Allen, & others bought an F1 racing Alpine team.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 10:50 am to AUFANATL
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Those two brothers just sit on their arse and collect a cut of all of the NBA television revenue every year
I believe the NBA bought them out of the contract a couple of years ago but still one of the shrewdest deals ever for the brothers.
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By 2013, they had earned about $300 million from the arrangement. The NBA, recognizing the ongoing financial impact, sought to buy out the Silnas. According to The New York Times, a final agreement was reached in 2014, with the NBA paying $500 million to settle the contract. This brought the total payout to the Silnas to approximately $800 million.
This post was edited on 6/21/24 at 10:55 am
Posted on 6/21/24 at 11:06 am to TigerintheNO
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Josh Hamilton 5 years 125 million, played a season and half with them.
Then PAID the Rangers to take him back. Even though he left because Arlington "isn't a baseball town" (he is right on that part).
Posted on 6/21/24 at 11:09 am to VADawg
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Deshaun Watson will be in this discussion when his time in Cleveland ends.
It probably already is the worst contract in the NFL, along with the one the Broncos gave Russell Wilson. The part that makes Watson's so bad it is that the entire contract was fully guaranteed. They gave him a record-setting amount of money and he hasn't even played at replacement level QB when he has even played at all. With the Browns he has been 24th in QBR in 2023 and 27th in 2022.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 12:49 pm to EyeOfTheTiger311
Gotta be Ben Simmons or John Wall for the NBA. I would say Mike Conley but he was just an overpay for his level of talent.
NFL has to be DeShaun Watson.
NFL has to be DeShaun Watson.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 1:36 pm to West Palm Tiger561
Gail Goodrich with the New Orleans Jazz. He was done.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:31 pm to Wing T
How is eveyone forgetting the Mike Hampton deal?
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On December 9, 2000, the Colorado Rockies and left handed pitcher Mike Hampton put ink to paper on an eight year, $121 million contract. In coming to Colorado, Hampton had signed the largest contract in MLB history at the time. The Rockies hoped that Hampton, in conjunction with some other moves like signing fellow southpaw Denny Neagle to a five year, $51 million deal, would help usher in a new age of starting pitching at Coors Field.
So what happened? Hampton’s nosedive was immediate and startling... but not altogether unexpected. Hampton had a career 6.88 ERA at Coors Field prior to the singing, and the Rockies had already experienced poor luck with free agent starters.
So Mike Hampton was made the highest paid player in baseball, was granted access to a quality school system, and the Rockies got a long term anchor for their rotation. It all sounded like a win-win situation... Until Hampton was promptly traded away after two of the worst seasons in what would be a 16 year career. The contract is viewed as one of the biggest busts in franchise history, set the course of the Rockies for decades to come with a front office reluctant to sign big name starting pitching.
The Rockies finished paying off Hampton in 2018, but the memories of what could have been—and what came to be— still linger on in the memories of Rockies fans.
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Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:38 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Strasburg pitched like 30 innings after signing a $235M deal
Eta 30 innings over 3 years
Wow. Brutal.
Everyone knew Strasburg and his glass arm were pampered from the beginning, his was as fragile as a china doll too. ANY GM handing this guy 3 years, 235m was just stupid and doomed to fail.
You knew a few of those guys from the Nats (Rendon, Strasburg) were going to cash in on just that one personal great year once they won the Series.
This is one of the things I hate most about pro sports during the last 10 years or so in ALL sports: Multi-Year $150-300 MILLION for guys striking lightning in a bottle ( and with it ZERO loyalty or pride in trying to come back)
Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, guys have been strategizing aka CHEATING by Roiding their way into ONE career-year that in no way resembled historic performance. They cash-in, bamboozling club GMs to the tune of multi-year multi-million contracts -- only to revert to "normal" skill level. ( Money-Bags GM Cashman and the NY Yankees were victimized by this scam a number of times.)
Take the money and run.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:46 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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[Albert Haynesworth signed a 7 year, $100,000,000 contract ] = 1 million bucks a tackle including his signing bonus and guaranteed base salary.
Whoa. Not bad for such a racist country. But real "equality" would have been Haynesworth making TWO-million per tackle.
By the way -- that doozy of a contract was signed before the players kneeling and "END RACISM" was painted in NFL end zones and stamped on helmets right? (Just checking.)
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Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:54 pm to Jack Ruby
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Hampton’s nosedive was immediate and startling... but not altogether unexpected.... had a career 6.88 ERA at Coors Field prior to the singing [for $121 million]
And we wonder why Mommy and Daddy have been shuttling Braxton and his golden $500 bat and mitt back and forth to Travel Ball games 500 miles away. He could hit the MLB lottery.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:58 pm to West Palm Tiger561
Baseball has to have the most lopsided worst to best free agent signings of any sport. So many players sign gargantuan GUARANTEED deals...and give them next to nothing in return. It's all Curt Flood's fault.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 3:22 pm to migui8618
On the coaching side, Coach O has to be one of them. After winning the national championship, he obviously got a massive pay raise and extension, but its not like any other program or NFL was trying to poach him, or he was going to leave. You negotiated against yourself and ended up having to eat 20 million or whatever.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 4:19 pm to diat150
Kei Igawa's Yankees deal.
$26 million to sign.
Plus, a five-year, $20 million contract.
All for two whole wins.
If a small market club made such a massive mistake, they would have been screwed for years.
$26 million to sign.
Plus, a five-year, $20 million contract.
All for two whole wins.
If a small market club made such a massive mistake, they would have been screwed for years.
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