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management: we want to renegotiate your contract to reduce your salary b/c you had a bad season

PSACollectorPSACollector Posts: 43
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management to player x: we want to renegotiate your contract to reduce your salary because you had a bad season

only if

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is my version of "Only if"


    OK we will sign you based on pretty much all incentives... hit .300? A Million... hit over 25 Hr's? Another Million... get 100+ Rbi? Ok another Million...
  • Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Hell freezes over.
    Why would a player willingly renegotiate a contract for less money?
  • megatronmegatron Posts: 955


    << <i>management to player x: we want to renegotiate your contract to reduce your salary because you had a bad season

    only if >>



    management to worker x: we need to reduce your salary because we had a bad year

    only if........it happened in professional sports like it does to many ordinary Americans on a daily basis?

    The strongest unions + large demand = mega-dollar contracts, despite a decrease in attendance in 2009 (for baseball certainly).
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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can see why players would not be receptive to changing their contract to take less money if their performance takes a nose dive. A contract is a contract both sides should perform their obligations under the contract [the player plays for the team for each year covered by the contract and the team pays the player for his performance].

    What is amusing though is that players an many occasions [after having a monster year with All Star stats, etc.] throw a hissy fit, whine, complain and cry about how "underpaid" they are and how "iunfair" their contract is (i.e. because another player on another team playing his same position has stats 60% as good as his, yet makes 5 times what he is making). Some even "demand" that the team renegotiate their contract, even though it still has 3-4 years to go on it.

    For these players, what is good for the goose (them) is not good for the gander (the team).
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