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July 4, 2055 –
Sacramento pitcher Joe King wrote his name on a piece of paper today, and fans of the team went ballistic. I mean, there was celebration in the streets and parties in party town. A few techbros in the offices downtown even tossed $5 shitcoin cyber-crypto currency slips down to the slovenly retail workers as they trudged home from a long day at the shoe store prying ladies’ size seven feet into size 5 shoes.
That piece of paper was a contract that said King would be paid $7M next season, which is both pretty good grub for King and his family and a steal for the team, seeing as he’s 26 years old and sports a career record of 57-24 with a 3.02 ERA—numbers that, assuming they continue of a pace will have him in some pretty rarified company. Welcome to capitalism, the only system where a guy can be both underpaid and overpaid and everyone is almost happy about that.
Aside: the kid won both the ERA crown and the led the league in wins as a 19-year-old, and DID NOT WIN THE NEBRASKA? What gives with that?
Anyway, fans were ecstatic and the GM got a nifty notice of that.
Good on the fans for giving the team kudos for signing a guy who was in the second year of his arbitration and would have, theoretically, gotten at least $6.9M regardless. And, yeah, arbitration estimates have that third year at $13M+. The question must be asked: will the fans go just as wild if the team signs king to a $13M deal that does nothing buy avoid an arbitration hearing?
Only the fans can say.
Oh yeah. Fireworks went off at the stadium because the country celebrated its birthday, or something like that.
