The dumbest journalist in the history of sports.

"This is what the Yankees hope and this is where they are, still owing Rodriguez $114 million because they were so sure five years ago that he was going to break the all-time home run record that they signed him to what will go down as the dumbest contract in all of sports history."

Since the main purpose of this blog is to vent, if Lupica is going to keep saying it, I'm going to keep disputing it.


The only way I can interpret the value of the contract is expense divided by production (and this ignores the real value of ARod over the years, which is selling tee-shirts).

Is Lupica seriously only looking at size of the contract?  I prefer to look at bang for the buck.

Even with an eye on opportunity cost ... which is largely mitigated for the Yankees due to their large payroll and enormous assets ... this is not the worst contract in the history of sports.


Since the post-2007 extension, ARod has already delivered a WS title and 129 HRs and 447 RBIs.

ARod has 5 years/$114 left and that still might be a better value over the next five years than Ryan Howard, Jose Reyes, Vernon Wells, Carl Crawford ... and who knows if (more popular players such as) Mark Teixeira or David Wright or Joey Votto foul a ball off their big toe and hit the skids.


Josh Beckett was paid $17 million by the Red Sox/Dodgers in 2012 to win 7 games. There are 3 years and (approximately) $50 million remaining on his contract.

Yinka Dare was a first round draft pick who average 2 points, 3 rebounds, and 0.1 assists for his career.

Allan Houston was so overpaid, the NBA changed its rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

Ryan Leaf was overpaid if he was paid twenty dollars.  A bad QB choice sets an NFL franchise back for several years.  That contract, whatever the dollar amount, was worse than ARod's.

Michael Vick.


In a way, I wish Lupica was right.  I wish ARod's contract was the worst in Yankee history.

If it was, maybe I could easily forget about Kevin Brown, A.J. Burnett, Steve Kemp, Jim Abbott, Jason Giambi, Kei Igawa, Nick Johnson, Carl Pavano, Mike Witt, Pascual Perez, Jose Contreras, and that one year where Roger Clemens got a prorated $30 million to win 6 games -- Goodness Gracious!