David Samson
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Class A was not thinking to himself, hey, I got a chance to make $20 million.
I'm going to turn down five grand.
Let's conservatively say $25 million.
Conservatively.
A year?
What's your point?
A year?
No.
That's about what he would make.
That's about what he would make.
Let's say, now, could he be one of the relievers who could do it for 10 more years?
I'm just saying average.
Let's just say 25 million, which would be an amazing amount of career earnings.
But what people have been saying, and I don't think you're one of them, unless you're doing it right now, is how could he be so stupid and short-sighted to take five grand to throw a ball as a ball and sacrifice the possibility of the 25 million?
And what I'm telling you is players, people, they don't think that way.
The person who robs the bank is not thinking about getting caught.
He's thinking about what he's doing with the money-
Yeah, no, it's not uncommon what you're saying, Amin, where you think that players and this happens in all sports, you see it in basketball and baseball, of course, you have no idea how big the payroll is for some of these players, how many people they're actually supporting.
And this happens not just with Dominican players, but especially with Dominican players where their families just don't have money.
I'm not talking about second generation like the Guerreros or the Tatis, but it is very, very common that that