Coral Gables, Fla. (VIP-WIRE).-
My admired Mike…:
I congratulate you for being, at 30 years of age, the highest paid player of this year, 2022, with your 37 million 116 thousand 667 Angeleno dollars.
Look at how things are, in another era, for example, in my days as a player, we would have talked about baseball, batting averages, home runs, or fielding and throwing on base.
But not now. Now time is running out talking about millions of dollars, even though, like you, I was a centerfielder and not a banker. In my day we read in the clubhouses: Baseball Digest and The Sporting News. Now, you bigleaguers, what you read is the Wall Street Journal.
My biggest fees, in 13 seasons I was up there, were $100,000 in 1949 and 1950. And they cut me down to $90,000 in 1951.
But I considered myself rich, very rich. So much so that I was even able to marry Marilyn Monroe, which I consider the best move of my life, and I couldn’t have done it without being wealthy. I considered myself rich, I felt very happy and secure with my destiny.
And that’s how all of us ballplayers felt. Instead, now I observe from this Beyond Here, which you call Beyond, how most of the players are not happy with the millions they earn, so they spend it looking for contract extensions with more and more money .
How good that they charge huge fees!… but how bad that they are not happy! In your case, for example, I believe that by taking care of your fortune only halfway, you are assured of the economic well-being of no less than 10 generations.
Because you are signed by the Angels, for $371,166,670, through 2030, plus what you had earned before that contract, another $227,67,832, total of $598,234,502.
Add what you have earned and you will earn, for souvenirs, cards and commercials, 229 million 138 thousand dollars, for a total of 827 million 372 thousand 502 dollars. If Taxes and agents take $327,372 million, which is overkill, you’ll have $500 million left.
If you become a jerk and squander a million a year, you will need 500 years to spend all your money. I hope that daddy God allows you to live that time with the necessary energy so that you can enjoy how much you have earned with the sweat of your bat, your glove and your arm.
Oh well, this year you hit 285, 13 home runs, 28 RBIs?
My dear, Mike, I wish you all the best… Hugs, Joe.
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