Alright, let’s talk about this fella, Lindor. He plays that baseball, you know, the one with the stick and the ball. Heard he got himself a real big contract, like, a whole lotta money. They sayin’ it’s worth somethin’ like 341 million dollars! Can you believe that? That’s more money than anyone in my whole darn town has ever seen, I reckon.
Now, I don’t know much about baseball, but I do know a big number when I hear one. 341 million! That’s enough to buy a whole heap of cows, maybe even a whole farm, or two! This Lindor fella, he must be somethin’ special. They say he plays that shortstop thing, which I guess is important in baseball. He hits the ball and runs around, just like all the rest of them fellas, but I guess he does it better or somethin’.
They give him this big contract for ten years. Ten years! That’s a long time, longer than my old mule lived, bless his heart. So, this fella, he’s gonna be playin’ ball for a whole decade, and makin’ all that money. Good for him, I say. If someone wants to give you that much money, you best take it and run, just don’t run with the ball you ain’t gonna make no homerun, that is what my grandson told me when he was little before he ran off to the city.
- They also gave him a bonus, somethin’ like 21 million just for signin’ the paper. Twenty-one million! Shoot, that’s more money than most folks make in a lifetime. It just goes to show you, these fellas playing ball, they’re livin’ in a whole different world.
- And every year, they gonna pay him an average of 34 million and 100 thousand. My head starts spinnin’ just thinkin’ about it. That’s a lot of hay, even if you stack it up to the sky.
Some folks say he’s worth it, though. They say he’s one of the best around. They call him a superstar, which I guess means he’s really, really good. They got all sorts of numbers to prove it too. They talk about how much he’s worth, like they’re weighin’ him on a scale. They say he’s already made the team more money than they’re payin’ him. I don’t understand all that fancy talk, but I guess it means he’s bringin’ in the crowds and sellin’ the tickets.
This fella Cohen, he’s the one who gave Lindor all that money. He’s some kind of big shot, a billionaire they say. He bought the team, I heard, and he wanted to make ‘em better. So, he went out and got Lindor, paid him all that money, and hoped he’d bring home some wins. That’s how it works in the city, I guess. You spend money to make money, or somethin’ like that. Out here in the country, we just try to make ends meet, but them city folk, they got different ways of doin’ things.
Now, some people might say that’s too much money for one fella to be makin’. And maybe it is. But if someone’s willin’ to pay it, and someone’s willin’ to play for it, then I reckon that’s their business. It ain’t hurtin’ me none. I just hope this Lindor fella, he saves some of that money. You know, for a rainy day. Because even for a superstar, the rain’s gonna fall eventually, that’s what my pappy used to say.
Francisco Lindor’s contract, it’s somethin’ else, ain’t it? It makes ya think about how much money is out there in the world, and how little of it most of us see. But that’s alright. We got our own ways of bein’ happy. We got our families, our friends, and our little piece of land. And that’s worth more than all the money in the world, or at least that’s what I tell myself when I’m weeding the garden.
One last thing, this fella they said every time he gets up to the plate thingy where you hit the ball, he makes around 47 dollars, more than what I get for a day’s work sometimes. Imagine that, just walking over to swing at a ball gets you nearly 50 dollars! Maybe I should have taken up baseball instead of farming all these years
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