Comments on: Twins lock up Mauer for $184 million

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:23:22 +0000

Tom,
Well the problem is that Budweiser, Miller, Go Daddy, Geico and others wouldn’t pay premium $$$ to advertise on televised classroom broadcasts, so unfortunately the cruel disparity between teacher and player pay will continue.

By: BIGBRUCE11047

BIGBRUCE11047 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:10:27 +0000

I cannot believe that somebody who plays baseball for a living is worth $23 million a year. The position of catcher takes the most out of a player physically. He’ll play four or five years at the catcher position and then his knees will be junk. Then to apease his contract they will put him at first base. The Twins will benefit from this contract for three or four years and that’s about it.

By: gail

gail — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:17:39 +0000

A perfect example of how revenue sharing CAN work if teams put the money back into player salaries. The Twins have averaged about 20MM/year from teams like NY and Boston, so I give them kudos for signing Mauer. Too many clubs just put the loot in their pockets instead of trying to better their clubs…..

By: joethefirst

joethefirst — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:05:05 +0000

Hey, when teachers produce as well as does Mauer, then they deserve more pay. As it stands now, considering the aggregate dismal academic performance of US students, teachers are overpaid.
Enough about the poor. Instead of food, give them some good advice. Here is the advice: ‘You work, you eat; you don’t work, you don’t eat.’
Computers for schools? How about parents spend less on cars, eating out, clothes, cable TV, movies, & etc. and spend more money on their kids? This also would allow parents more time with their kids and this would improve kids’ academic performances.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:00:06 +0000

Really Sharon? First off, Major League baseball and players in general donate millions of dollars and millions of hours of their own time to help those less fortunate. As a general rule…people with money…here it comes…and busineeses do a whole lot more for the previously mentioned less fortunate than the masses. Not to mention what they have to pay out in taxes.
Next topic up…why do they get paid so much? Simple supply and demand…if you did something that 2.4 million people wanted to watch you do…you’d make that money too. Then you could give it all away if you wanted to.
As far as the Yankees wanting Mr. Mauer…every team would want him. They say he’s a great guy and obviously can hit the tar out of a baseball. However maybe the “OTHER” fans writing these emails haven’t heard of cervelli or Montero. Feel bad for Boston…not New York as the Red Sox have two catchers that can’t reach second base without a relay throw. Can you say…record number of steals against? Thank you from a life long Yankee fan.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:33:04 +0000

There’s not one person in this world worth that! It’s always about money isn’t it. I’d like to see these owners send some of that money to people in need. That goes for all the players too!

By: Dennis G.

Dennis G. — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:47:30 +0000

For those of you commenting on twins fans or lack of. How many MLB teams have sold over 2.6 million tickets for the 2010 season?
Just curious.

By: Ed Koper

Ed Koper — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:47:10 +0000

I think it’s great Mauer is staying in MPLS. That’s where he should be. Regarding these huge salaries that baseball players and football players get. If they generate the revenue to justify these salaries – great for everyone. What pisses me off is when these team owners get cities to pay for their stadiums – which in turn gives these teams the money to pay these high salaries. Building a stadium should be like a company building a factory – the expense is borne by the company or team. Why should the average Joe build stadiums for these multi millionaires so they can give athletes million dollar salaries. Americans have too much sports on the brain to let teams dictate to them.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:23:16 +0000

Right, of course, there are no Twins fans… Out on the east coast, or out on the west coast, or in the south.
There are Twins fans in – gasp – Minnesota. Enough of them that the Twins expect to be in the top half, probably the top third, in revenue going forward. The idea may shock some of you, that things and people exist outside of the massive, dirty, overcrowed cities you dwell in, but they really do.
Sorry, the best position player in the American league isn’t coming to New York or Boston.

By: The Common Man

The Common Man — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:27:29 +0000

/sigh of relief(but not sigh of closer)
It’s good to be a Twins fan. Now who are Yankee and Red Sox fans going to openly covet?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:47:15 +0000

Yes, they should use those computers to pay teachers!

By: Oggmonster

Oggmonster — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:28:44 +0000

Don’t underestimate how severe the backlash would be in Minnesota if the Twins had allowed him to walk. The way I look at it, they couldn’t afford to not sign him.
Also, I think it’s embarrassing that Tom and Kathleen can afford computers.

By: Steverman

Steverman — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:14:05 +0000

Jerk

By: Randall

Randall — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:15:27 +0000

I’d say it’s nice to see someone the Yankees couldn’t buy, but I doubt he left that much on the table. He got a nice long deal for a catcher. Good for Minny anyway.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:52:53 +0000

Nice, now what are they going to do for a closer?

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:52:16 +0000

It’s a great day to be a Twins fan and for MLB. Mauer would have got more money from New York or Boston.
MLB really does need a salary cap.

By: Professor Dave

Professor Dave — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:39:19 +0000

What’s interesting is not the blather in so many of the comments above, but whether this deal represents a continuing paradigm shift.
For quite awhile, we were watching a game in which stars for small-market teams had to be traded and generally signed with big-market teams when they had their first shot at FA. But there’s been deal after deal in which younger stars signed away a few FA years for guaranteed money, signifying a nice shift in philosophy and available revenue. Mauer extends that trend by taking a superstar in his prime, close to the end of his cost-controlled years, and placing him essentially permanently with his home team. Is this a trend? Will other teams follow this model and keep their best players from becoming FAs, or is this just a concatenation of random events.
It could just be the …
Right player for the right team (St. Paul boy drafted by the Twins)
with the right agent (Shapiro, with the history of keeping iconic stars at home
at the right time (the new Pohlads just taking over and a publicly funded stadium about to open).
If Mauer were from California, playing in the Metrodome, with the old Carl Pohlad in charge, I have my doubts this deal happens.

By: William Kazak

William Kazak — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:30:37 +0000

Go buy some operations for kids with cleft pallates.
Feed some hungry people.
Unreal.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:30:25 +0000

hey i am a baseball fan and I can cook..so there! lol

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:29:43 +0000

you people aren’t serious are you? it’s called capitalism. 80 percent of the people in this country can be teachers. 3 or 4 people in the world can do what Joe Mauer does. hasn’t this argument been dismissed already?

By: Bob in MN

Bob in MN — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:23:24 +0000

Ha ha Evil Empire!!!!! Go pound sand and dig in someone else’s sandbox!!! Its a great day in Minnesota and MLB !!!! The world does not revolve around NYC and Boston!!!
P.S. – At last count there were 2,400,000 Twins fans!!!! That’s the number of tickets sold SO FAR for this year in our fabulous new stadium!!!!

By: kathleen

kathleen — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:16:48 +0000

wow javer..i may cry for weeks

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:08:19 +0000

Yes, they should use that money to pay teachers!

By: TwinsFan

TwinsFan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:56:57 +0000

Seriously man, all eight twins fans? Grow up!!

By: Javer

Javer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:56:24 +0000

Kathleen is an R-tard.

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:55:07 +0000

Hey you, get back in the kitchen.

By: RonBurgundy

RonBurgundy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:43:57 +0000

So this is good thing for the Twins fans…all 8 of them.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:36:21 +0000

how ridiculous to give someone that much money to play a frikkin game..its embarassing..I didnt know the twins had any fans by the way