Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Ah yes. Didn't read your post properly. But these young players know full well if they become a top player they will earn a massive contract through free agency.

 

Well the highest paid player in baseball is Alex Rodriguez who is in the middle of a 10 year $275m contract.

 

What a long boring day, one of the agents was a cheesy tangoed ****.

 

Is there a salary cap in MLB?

 

No. There is a relatively-toothless luxury tax (set at a very high level), however, beyond which teams have to contribute to the revenue sharing pool. The Yankees have regularly had to pay $20m+ a year in tax because of their massive payroll.

I hate the idea of a salary cap in the PL, but I'd be pretty open to a luxury tax.

 

Mayweather will top that if he fights 6 fights in 2 years. He has a contract worth around $300m if he completes the fights.

 

Here's a totally random question.

I wonder if anyone else has ever gone along the M40 / M42 to watch Saints play away. Everytime I've gone along the M40 and stopped off art Warwick Services I am always intrigued by the sight of the monument on the right hand side of the carriageway (heading North) within about 10-15 mins of the stop. I've tried finding out what this monument ( a cloumn with an urn on top) is for but can't see it on the Bing map / birds eye view and it hasn't materialised whenever I try to Google it.

Does anyone know what it commemorates ? I would be intrested to find out as I've been baffled by this a years!!

Thanks

Ian

 

Ah I see. The NFL has something like a $130m a year salary cap I think.

 

And the NFL version is a hard cap; you can't exceed it. The NHL has similar, while the NBA has a hybrid...there's a soft cap that can be exceeded under certain circumstances (and most teams in the league are over it at any given point), followed by a punitive luxury tax.

 

Crazy money for just being good at a sport tho.

 

Manure and their finances under discussion again :- Despite releasing impressive financial figures on Thursday, which showed year-on-year turnover for the first nine months of the financial year has risen 13.1% to £278.1m, despite not including the new £120m, eight-year sponsorship deal with AON, Woodward said the club had no intention of making dramatic changes. United's broadcast and matchday sectors have increased 21.7% and 34% on the corresponding three months in 2012, whilst gross debt now stands at £367.6m, still a vast sum but a decrease of 15.9% since 30 June last year.

 

Me and dan have been hunted down by Banana on twitter now.

He's telling us how UKIPnare the way forward as the best, most liberal and forward thinking party out there.

 

Anyone else think that David Starkey is a massive ****?

 

They call themselves libertarians, which is suppose is a very twisted form of liberalism, but the only thing they talk about is immigration so it's kind of hard to tell. Do they support drug legalisation, scrapping welfare, scrapping the NHS, etc? Hard to tell...

 

They are just like every other party full of crap.

 

I've got him blocked, so I can't actually see his replies to me.

 

Any one play Far Cry Blood Dragon?

 

He completely ignored my question on his views on Portuguese politics, which I found pretty hilarious.

 

DLTW I've just read that Twitter argument. All I can say is I hope for his sake that he grows out of it. If he's truly interested in politics and willing to consider every viewpoint, then he will. Doesn't matter much to us either way thankfully, as he's not living here or voting here.

 

This is my favourite tweet from banana https://twitter.com/SaintsBoy1/status/330086055506231296