Jerry and Gio were discussing some of the struggling Yankee veterans, as Giancarlo Stanton is still batting just .201 after a quick power surge coming out of the break, while Josh Donaldson’s season could end with a .142 batting average, as he now has a high-grade strain in his calf.
It led Jerry to wonder: when will a player return a portion of their salary for drastically underperforming the scale of their contract.
“They stink,” Jerry said. “We’ll never see it, but I’d love to see the day once when the player walks into the owner’s office and says ‘You know what, here’s a little kickback. Here’s $100,000. I suck.’
“It is amazing. It’s like stealing money.”
Jerry says owners never get any credit for dishing out big contracts, though players do seem to get plenty of criticism when playing under big contracts, or even smaller contracts, as Aaron Hicks was public enemy No. 1 in the Bronx with fans consistently bringing up a contract that only paid him $10 million per season.
“Nobody ever cares that the owners pay out all this money and go nuts for what they’re paying for their ‘investment,’” Jerry said. “All we ever talk about is the player that is underappreciated and outkicked his coverage. How about the stiffs who are robbing the owners blind by giving you a crap effort game after game after game?”
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