Why does AROD sell his equipment????

[bigtruck260]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

Could be that it makes him feel great about himself to have all those people owning his bat.

I would guess that there are more than a few athletes that get an major ego boost knowing that people will schuck out 10 grand for a bat that they (the player) used for 3-4 games. One of them was new HOFer Rickey Henderson

[kingjammy24]

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Even if ARod is making $300 grand for his Game Used/Autographs. We are only talking about 1% of his baseball salary. That like giving the average Joe on the street an extra $500. I'd love and extra $500 but at the end of the day an extra 1% isn't making anyone more "financially stable."

exactly. and if you really want to be completely accurate about all of this, if arod generates $100k from these bats and gloves and cleats, that's only .03% of his $28mm salary. not even a full 1%! i'd love to know how much some people would be willing to do or give up for a whole .03% of their salary. my guess is some wouldn't even get out of bed for it.

rudy.

[frikativ54]

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madonna is worth approx $850mm. she recently divorced and has 3 young children. she began a tour in aug 2008 and will likely stretch it into 2009.
i'm sure her kids will be relieved to know that in exchange for her prolonged absence, they'll all be $200mm richer. much better than having your mom greet you when you come home from school everyday. good thing $200mm buys a lot of nannies.

why? maybe she's just trying to become "financially stable".

rudy.

Great post, Rudy. I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Bondsgloves]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

Isn't this the guy who took 250 million from texas... a TEAM HE NEW WASN'T GOIN TO WIN WITH?... Its all about the money with this guy.

Wait didn't he opt out of his contract with the Yankee's trying to get more money. Then he realized no one was going to pay him more and all the bad press he was getting, crawled back to the yankees with his head down.

The guy is about his own numbers!

There is a reason why he isn't the face of the yankee's. He's not well respected in the major leagues. When did his little girl slap to knock the ball out of the first basemans hand in the playoffs against Boston. Or wait didn't he yell " I got it" l to the Toronto short stop or third baseman so they would drop the ball. The guy is a tool and the Yankees can have him.

[BMH]

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I was mistaken, all of his bats are payed for by him through Arod Inc. He doesn't get "team" bats. He ordered over 350 bats last year, all were produced as game bats. This doesn't include the "Misc" bats ordered by the team.

[TFig27]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

Arod doesn't make money off of his game used stuff. That is handled by a relative and is the source of their salary. At least that is how it was explained to me.

BTW,

Maple bats are $78 and Ash are $55.

I'll take an ARod and a Jeter for $110. Where do I send the check?

[momen55]

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BMH;
email sent.

[frikativ54]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

I seriously believe you're always going to find an A-Rod bat. I don't think they'll be worth that much after the whole homerun chase is over. Especially if he gets injured, and never challenges Barry *Bonds. Can you imagine if A-Rod gets implicated with steroids. Those bats will be easier to find than a box of beanie babies.

[Bondsgloves]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

AROD ordered 350 bats, seems like a lot? In relation to other players is this extremely high. No wonder the market is flooded. Arod only plays 162 games, you can't count the post sean because he doesn't really show up and play in it anway.

You may need to consider your investments in Arod. How many bats will be out there when its all said in done?

[BMH]

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Now guys, that wouldn't be very ethical of me. Plus "game issued" doesn't pay enough to fund my hobbies Though a couple of us have joked about taking some game issued bats into our batting cages once in a while.


Don't worry, we never have and never will... that damn conscious keeps getting in my way.

[suave1477]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

exactly. and if you really want to be completely accurate about all of this, if arod generates $100k from these bats and gloves and cleats, that's only .03% of his $28mm salary. not even a full 1%! i'd love to know how much some people would be willing to do or give up for a whole .03% of their salary. my guess is some wouldn't even get out of bed for it.

rudy.

KingJammy as in most cases I agree with you but this one I differ a little bit just because you keep saying over and over that arod makes 28mm a year

ON PAPER HE DOES

But realistically thats not even close to what he brings home

he earns to start with 28mm
Boras gets about 10% maybe more

so now hes down to 25.3mm

New York taxes for AROD - 42.7%

He brings home 14,496,900

Which doesn't include any of his expenses (houses,cars, bills), charities, foundations, people he employs directly.

Chances are after all that his money is down to half.


So adding 50k which was just a round off number which it could be way higher is still nothing to sneeze at (esepcially when that's tax free cash)

so if his actual play money is say about 7,500,000

50k or more is a bigger percentage of 7.5mm which I am sure he doesn't mind having.
And making 50k for about 2 to 3 hours of time I am sure is not that bad of a trade off since he does signings with MVP about 3 or maybe 4 times a year

[suave1477]

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I am just putting things into perspective thats all

[BMH]

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They also pay a tax for every state they play in, now you may say poor ballplayer, but so does the coaches and EM's.

[suave1477]

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bmh your right i forgot about that good point

so add a lot more percentage to that New York tax figure

[markize]

Re: Why does AROD sell his equipment????

Ouch......7.5 mill in play money-i could deal with that !! Seriously, don't forget to add his endorsement deals, Nike air zoom cleats, etc into his income/taxes.

Mark