When I wrote my espn.com article, I used the poverty number given in the U.S. for an average family (2.5 kids), just for general illustration purposes. A reader, though, took offense at that.
Andrea:
You really need to do your homework. The developmental salary is not
below the poverty line unless these guys are married/have kids and do not
bring in income elsewhere. http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07fedreg.htm is
the link for the document with the 2006 guidelines showing that $10,210
was the poverty line for a one-person household. It took me a few
minutes with Google. Shame on you for not taking that opportunity to get the
facts right. The hyperbole that you and other reporters insist on using
in this storyline is laughable. They have other benefits that people
really facing poverty can't even dream of, yet you try to paint the
system as forcing these guys to live on sewer grates.
I guess you're as appalled that Major League Baseball has a system that
allows its young National League MVP to make just $50,000 more a year
than Chris Gomez, a journeyman backup infielder in his late 30s. But
salary disparity only happens in MLS, right?
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Whenever we think about salary hike, it must be fulfill our needs, you should think like that then only our career will be in golden era.......
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I'm so happy I got so under your skin you had to blog about it. And nice of you to qualify what poverty line you were talking about here, but conveniently ignore that fact in the original column.
Now how many developmental players have 2.5 kids, Andrea, huh?
Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy.
You take pride in harassing writers?
And I'd like to see you try and live on $13,000 in Southern California. Might not be a bad wage in Kansas City or Columbus but that won't even cover rent for an entire year in most places out here.
Also nice of you to post as anonymous.
Brian,
Just off the top of my head, Mario Torres of Dallas was on a developmental contract when he had a kid and got married. I think Troy Perkins might have gotten married when he was on a developmental contract, too.
The bottom line is I picked a median poverty number that would apply to any young player interested in supporting not only himself, but a family. Most people out of college would like to at least have that as an option.
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