$126M Donut Eating Machine!

I was reading several comments left on a web forum today regarding Vernon Wells' (pictured to the left in the hat) new contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Wells just signed a $126M, 7-Year contract extension to stay with the Jays, and canoe.ca decided to ask what people thought of it. "Was it worth it?" they asked.... and the barely literate readers of the various 'Sun' publications responded (this barely literate reader just read).

I got a kick out of the various people who brought up how outrageous it was for Wells to make this sort of money when people were starving...and how you could just walk down the streets of Toronto to find better uses for the money.

Let me help to point out the obvious to these people (which probably made up about half of the respondants by the way):

- Of course it is fucking obsence for someone to make $18M per annum

- Of course the world would have better uses for this type of money

- Of course doctors and teachers deserve to make more money than someone playing a game (especially my teahcer wife)

- Hey guess what? The money doesn't come from the government!

- Baseball, and all other sports are part of a free-market capitalist society. Owners spend money to make money.

If you don't understand the above facts, and can't accept this reasoning then there's a book by Engels and Marx you should probably take a gander at. And don't use a sports article to complain about the way our society works. The question, within its context, is not whether this one person is worth $126M, its whether this investment is worth it to this organization.

In the end I wouldn't pay $18M/year for a fat guy who has to hustle hard and dive just to make plays that a normal centre fielder could make without running (just look at the below picture of him taken this past Halloween) but hey, that's one of the reasons I don't own my own team. Can we buy ourselves a pitcher now please?

Go Jays Go!

Pictured here: Vernon Wells and Roy Halladay get ready for the Blue Jays' annual Halloween clubhouse bash (they're dressed as Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney)