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.
Yankees overpaid Jeter by about $20 mill for this latest contract. Hey. it's their $$$..but what I don't get are the stupid Yankee fans who complain that the Yankees were "disrespecting" Jeter by not initially giving him the big $$, yet at the same time complain about $300 average ticket prices..$15 beer, and $50 parking..you'd have to be insane to go to a game these days, and very soon all sports are goign to learn that pricing is not infinitely elastic.
Here in Tampa, we have a pretty good football team, the Bucs, that NOBODY sees, because home games have been blacked out all year because the stadium isn't sold out..and ticket prices are reasonable..$40-50 bucks can get you a seat. NFL and NBA players are gonna be locked out next season..maybe they can have beach volleyball tourneys..