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Interesting observation to consider:


Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal made $46 million and $48 million in 2006 and 2007 respectively, and then got a $161 million severance package after Merrill was sold for a song to Bank America (BAC).

It's great to be a CEO, ruin a company, make millions leaving it.

1 posted on 12/08/2010 6:55:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
At least with Jeter you can go to his "office" 162 days out of the year and watch what he's doing to earn the money.

Or not earn it as the case may be.

2 posted on 12/08/2010 7:01:14 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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"Yet no one seems very angry about exorbitant pay in athletics, as compared to CEOs. "

There's nothing to be angry about, I simply stopped watching sports years ago. It's ridiculous.

3 posted on 12/08/2010 7:15:25 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: SeekAndFind
I really don't care what they pay him. It's not my money

I sort of care. I used to go to baseball games, before tickets became an investment. I used to watch on TV too back when sponsors names were mentioned only during the breaks between half innings; and the games took less than two and a half hours.

ML/NJ

5 posted on 12/08/2010 7:20:18 AM PST by ml/nj
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I don’t know. I hear people complain more about athletes salaries and CEOs on a regular basis. Jeter picked the worst possible time to have a down year. The year before was one of his better. No one knows for sure if he is declining or if he just had a bad year. I suspect some of both. He no doubt can still perform, especially at the plate. He hopefully has an aggressive off-season workout schedule in place.


6 posted on 12/08/2010 7:20:32 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: SeekAndFind

WE LOVE YOU DEREK!


10 posted on 12/08/2010 8:13:24 AM PST by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE OUR COUNTRY!)
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Does D.J. demand he bats at the top of the order?

with a .270 average... batting #1 or 2 ain't going to cut it.

I wonder if part of these salary negotiations was an agreement he would have to "settle" for batting lower in the order... at least until his average is consistently over .300.

23 posted on 12/08/2010 9:12:37 AM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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