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Originally Posted by kane
I agree.
A great example. Adrian Beltre ( a baseball player ) has been an average to above average player his whole career and makes around 5 million a year last year he had a break out year and signed a 5 year 11.5 million a year contract. But I bet if he goes back to being average this year he won't be giving back a bunch of that money.
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Exactly.
The WORST incident, I've EVER heard of was Keith Tkachuk in Winnipeg about 10 years ago.
Jackass signed a front loaded contract for say 5 million year one, and one million for years two, three and four. He AGREED to these terms, and signed it.
He played the first year, NO problem, as he was one of the highest paid players in the league.
Year two rolled around and he held out, because he was now being underpaid. Nevermind that he was being OVERPAID the year previous.
That's pretty much when the NHL players lost my respect.
Edit-Those figures show him making an average of 2 million per year (which is probably about right for time actually), so why not just sign a four year deal for 8 million dollars? Presumably because he had full intention of not honoring the deal beyond year one.