Baseball Player Quits, Says "I Don't Deserve $12M"

NBC Washington ^ | 01/27/2011 | Greg Wison

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Updated 10:19 AM EST, Thu, Jan 27, 2011

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Okay, Gil Meche hasn't been great since signing a big contract with the Kansas City Royals. But not many players would feel so badly about their performance that they would walk away from a guaranteed $12 million.

Meche announced last week he will retire, giving up the payday due on the last year of his deal. Meche has always been known for his integrity, according to The New York Times, but this move left the baseball world stunned. Meche said he just didn't like the idea of not earning his keep.

“When I signed my contract, my main goal was to earn it,” Meche told the paper from his temporary home in Lafayette, La. “Once I started to realize I wasn’t earning my money, I felt bad. I was making a crazy amount of money for not even pitching. Honestly, I didn’t feel like I deserved it. I didn’t want to have those feelings again.”

[K-Stater]

I didn’t realize that the Royals paid their players!

Some just work for the barbecue.

[allmendream]

Well price of tickets to the stadium can go down, but do they offer discount pricing for their advertisements that they run during the airing of the game (the #1 source of revenue)?

While that might be really nice to corporate America, to lower the cost of their advertising, it would just be THEM “getting the money”.

There are millions of dollars being made, someone is going to be receiving it. Who?

[CSM]

Nice comeback!

[Ann Archy]

Paging Diogenes!!!!! Wow....one honest man left in the country.