HAVING MONEY is enjoyable how?
Because spending it is enjoyable!

Where you live determines what options you have to spend it on!

A guy like reyes is not going to enjoy living in corn bred middle america!
Florida he will love!
We know he loves NYC!

Lots of Nightlife, Events, Cultural attractions etc…
So even though you have MORE money to spend you quickly run out of fun things to spend it on!

IT’S KEY TO EVALUATING ANY SPORTS RELOCATION BY THE TARGET ENVIRONEMENTS EFFECT ON THE PLAYER’S IMMEDIATE FAMILY(WIFE & KIDS) WHICH OFTEN SERVES AS THE HEAVIEST FACTOR IN A PLAYER’S DECISION ABOVE & BEYOND THE TYPICAL YRS & MONEY CONSIDERATIONS.

FOR INSTANCE, THE SUBSEQUENT REPORTS SURROUNDING CLIFF LEE’S DECISION FOR PHL @ LESS $$$ VERY POSSIBLY WAS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY HIS CHILD’S MEDICAL CONDITION HAVING ONE OF IT’S TOP TREATMENT CENTERS LOCATED IN PHILADELPHIA, A CENTER WHERE REPORTEDLY SHE LOVED BEING TREATED DURING LEE’S INITIAL TIME IN THE CITY

ERRONEOOUSLY TOO MANY REFER TO “COST OF LIVING” AS A SALARY DETERMINATOR, THE CORRECT INFLUENCE IS “COST OF LABOR” INTIMATING THAT THE INDUSTRY NORMS FOR CERTAIN POSITIONS IN A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHY CONTROL WHAT SALARY DEMANDS EMPLOYERS MUST MEET.

THERE IS AN INTERESTING SITE WHERE COST OF LIVING DIFFERENTIALS CAN BE CALCULATED, AS A MATTER OF FACT, I CHOSE TO TEST A POTENTIAL BASEBALL RELATED ASSUMPTION TO SEE WHAT $$$ VALUE FOR A ROOKIE PLAYING IN NYC, LIVING IN SUFFOLK COUNTY WOULD NEED TO BE PAID IN ORDER TO LIVE AS WELL AS HIS PEER LIVING & WOTKING IN ST LOUIS, MO. THE RESULTS: WERE A DISPOSABLE INCOME DECLINE OF $31,645.00 FOR A MLB MIN WAGE($417K) ROOKIE RELOCATING @ MINIMUM CONTRACT FROM STL TO NYM IF HE CHOOSES TO LIVE IN SUFFOLK COUNTY. U CAN CHECK FOR YOURSELF @:
http://swz.salary.com/CostOfLivingWizard/LayoutScripts/Coll_Start.aspx
A HUGE PIECE OF THE DIFFERENTIAL IS ACCOUNTED FOR IN LOCAL INCOME TAXES. THE MLB MINIMUM SCALE SALARY IS CERTAINLY CONSIDERED IN THE HIGHEST BRACKET WHEN CONSIDERING INCOME TAXES IN THIS INSTANCE THE ST LOUIS PLAYER IS SUBJECT TO MISSOURI STATE INCOME TAXES @ 6% OF EVERY DOLLAR OR IN THIS INSTANCE $25.020.00 WHILE AS A NYS RESIDENT HIS TAX BILL ON THE IDENTICAL EARNINGS IS $28,564.50 (6.85%). PRIMA FACE THIS IS A NEGLIGABLE CONSIDERATION FOR ANY MLB PLAYER; HOWEVER THE BIGGER STICKING POINT BECOMES THE REDICULOUS NYC INCOME TAX BURDEN @ AN ADDITIONAL 14,999.96( 15,000 HENCEFORTH) SO WHILE THIS RELATIVELY POOR ROOKIE PAYS THE LOCAL BURDEN OF 25,020 IN ST LOUIS HIS ONEROUS TARRIFF IF, ON THE METS, BECOMES $43,564.50 OR $18,544.50 MORE THAN STL, AS I STATED A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTOR TO THE COLA DIFFERENTIAL OF 31,645.00 FOR WHAT? MANY NY APOLOGIZERS WOULD CLAIM HE’D MAKE MORE IN ENDORSEMENTS; BUT THAT’S LUDICROUS AS HOW MANY ENDORSEMENT DEALS ARE TEJADA,TURNER,DUDA,PRIDIE POCKETING AFTER LAST SEASON? YET THE TAX BILL REMAINS.

AS A GRANDFTHER ON DISABILITY NEARLY 20 YRS aka FIXED INCOME, RELOCATING TO BE CLOSER TO THE “KIDS” IS OUT OF THE QUESTION EVEN AT MY PALTRY BRACKET BTW I’VE YET TO CONSIDER PROERTY TAX BURDENS

METSIE THIS IS PRIMARILY WHY I CITE DELGADO’S ACQUISITION IN TRADE AS SUPERIOR TO HIS HAVING CHOSEN US IN FREE AGENCY

AS REPORTS AT THE TIME HAD THE NYM OFFERING THE IDENTICAL TERM & $$$ AS FL WITH NY OFFERING TO ABSORB THE NYS/NYC INCOME TAX DEBT INCURRED FOR TERM OF CONTRACT SHOULD DELGADO CHOOSE NY BECAUSE FL HAS NO LOCAL INCOME TAX INCURSIONS STATE OR OTHERWISE
FL REALLY SCREWED DELGADO AS DID HIS FL BASED AGENT TOUTING HIS LOCAL CLUB’S OFFER BECAUSE BY COMING TO NY BOUND BY THE FL TERMS THE SUBSEQUENT NYS/NYC INCOME TAX BILLS OF $ 1,679,680.00 WAS HIS PERSONAL BURDEN INSTEAD OF BEING PAID BY NYM

METSIE, AS I’M CONFIDENT U ARE AWARE, PROPERTY/HOUSING VALUES VARY GREATLY ESP IF NYC OR LA IS IN THE MIX. FOR EXAMPLE THE BRICK TRADITIONAL 4BDR COLONIAL I’M PRESENTLY IN WOULD HAVE COMMANDED AT MINIMUM 7 FIGURES IN LOS ANGELES WHEN I EXITED SOCAL IN 1999.

NYC (Born and Raised)
Chicago
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Tulsa
StLouis (only a year cause I hated it!)
Houston
London
Paris
Naples Italy

I work in TV and I go where the work is.
I can say without a doubt other than NYC, LA, London, and Paris there is not a whole lot to do other than sports and your local movie theater!
Only other thing they all have in common is strip clubs!

HAVE U EVER LIVED OUTSIDE OF THE NYC METROPLEX?

PERSONALLY, I WAS BORN, 1949, & RAISED IN BAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN AND ALTHOUGH I MOVED TO NJ IN 1977(MIDDLESEX CNTY) I DID NOT EXTRICATE MYSELF FROM THE METROPLEX UNTIL A CAREER OPORTUNITY APPEARED IN CHERRY HILL, NJ(PHL SUBURB)IN 1980 AS MY CAREER ADVANCEMENT PROFEERRED OPORTUNITIES CARRIED ME FROM WILMINGTON, DE(1.5Y), COLUMBUS, GA(3Y), MONTVALE, NJ(2Y), LOS ANGELES, CA(9Y), PRESENTLY I RESIDE IN MATTHEWS, NC(CHARLOTTE SUBURB) FOR THE PAST 12Y
WHILE EXCL LOS ANGELES NONE OF THOSE LOCATIONS COULD MEASURE UP CULTURALLY OR HISTORICALLY TO NYC; HOWEVER, HOW OFTEN DOES THE AVG NYer AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THOSE THINGS? HOW MANY B’WAY PRODUCTIONS DO U ATTEND, CIRCLE LINE EXCURSIONS CAN U TAKE & THE MUSEUM EXHIBITS DON’T CHANGE THAT DRASTICALLY TOO OFTEN.

METSIE, I AM STATING FROM EXPERIENCE THAT WHEREEVER I HAVE LIVED I HAVE ALWAYS HAD ACCESS TO NYM GAME BROADCASTS, BE IT PATRT OF THE MLB PKG OR THE DAYS OF WWOR SUPERSTATION BEING PART OF BASIC CABLE PKGS NATIONWIDE, AKIN TO WGN(CHC) THERE’S CERTAINLY SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR ATTENDING NYM GAMES IN ATLANTA, PHILLY OR LA

AS A MATTER OF RECORD, WHEREVER I’VE HUNG MY ‘SPURS AT NIGHT, I HAVE NEVER AWOKEN BORED OR DISSATISFIED WITH MY LIFE CHOICES REGARDING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

I CAN AFFIRM THAT AS A ‘FOREIGN’ RESIDENT IT CERTAINLY LED TO MANY UNIQUELY ENJOYABLE RETURN VISITS. BTW, I STILL WAS ABLE TO PERSONALLY ATTEND GAME #3 OF BOTH THE ’86 & ’88 PLAYOFFS IN SHEA
ONE UNIQUELY ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE IS THE ‘SHOCK’ OF MANY NYC DRIVERS(CABS) WHIO ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE THE OUTSIDER IDENTIFIED BY OUT OF STATE PLATES ON MY VEHICLE IN MOST MERGE SITUATIONS AS I’VE NEVER TRADED PAINT; I’VE ALSO NEVER HAD TO BACK OFF OR DOWN (LMAO)

METSIE, IN LIFE TRUE ENJOYMENT IS RARELY AS DEPENDENT UPON “WHERE” AS IT IS UPON “SELF” & WITH “WHOM”.

THERE OBVIOUSLY IS THE MAKINGS OF A PERFECT STORM AIMED @ IMPROVEMENT THROUGH ERADICATION/SUBTRACTION RATHER THAN MEANINGFUL PAYROLL REASSIGNMENT & ACQUISITIONS
AS THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND & THE DUMBER DECIDE FOR THE DUMB.

LORD HELP US!

ORD, HAVE MERCY UPON US & LORD ALLOW THE MEEK TO INHERIT THE METS; AND NOT THE ARROGANT WHOM U NEED CAST OUT INTO THE FIRE. LOED, HEAR OUR PRAYER, WE THE TRODDEN UPON BESEACH U.

You know all these Rich folks who say they are willing to pay more taxes?
Well how about instead of paying taxes you take that money and hire two people instead. Even if it means they do nothing for the money at least they will spend and maybe the rest will find jobs to meet the extra demand those jobs created!

I agree with all you said, but again, I didn’t leave them out because I’m giving them a pass, I just mentioned the sports figures because of this Blog Site being sports related.

They have to get their message out on Tuesday.

Maybe a state fair every now and then?

Is there a Broadway play?
Are there as many fine dining establishments in Peoria as there are in Manhattan?

HAVING money is about living the GOOD LIFE!

Eating at peggy’s diner is a sad replacement for Nobu!

Yes it’s cheaper to live outside of NYC!
Because there is nothing to spend your money on even if it wasn’t!

Kay have you not found it odd that some of the Celebrities who have gone to see the protesters make as much as some of the CEO’s they are protesting against?

Those Celebrities have no real ability to create jobs, make product (they are IN product and help SELL product much like athletes do) but they don’t actually create the product the producer does!

Where is the angst towards them?

I agree with them on point that CEOs and Wall Street folks make too damn much money but you know the market pays what it pays people! Just as Reyes is likely to get big bucks he did something that someone is willing to pay to have!

They claim they hate the CORPORATE culture and they use their iPhone to rally which put money into the Pocket of a guy like Steve Jobs who has more liquidity than the US treasury! One of the most agressive shark like business men of our time! Suing everyone for stealing ideas he stole from someplace else!

Unfortunatly while I sympathize with their unhappiness the truth is they are chastizing the only people who seem able to solve their problems!
The enemy isn’t the guy who can give you a job the enemy is the folks who have bungled the job of boosting the economy!
They should be marching on washington not washington square or Zuccotti park!

Thats where the problem is!

We give the entertainment millionaires a pass! We are the one who MADE them millionaires by flocking to see the products they are in.

Thats why I say not spending is NOT going to help our financial issues!
We need stars to draw people to the park to solve that!
Stars people want to flock to the stadium to see!

I heard (with no factual backup) that at the end of FS’s career his agent basically propped him up, with a teleprompter because he couldn’t remember the words to the songs and put him out there just for the almighty dollar.
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FUTHERMORE, EVEN WITHIN THE SPORTS GENRE THERE ARE ASTRONOMICAL DISCREPANCIES PAID TO ATHLETES FROM DIFFERING VENUES. ie BOXING PURSES ASSOCIATED WITH “BIG NAME” TITLE BOUTS

KAY, UNFORTUNATELY SPORTSWRITERS HAVE AGENDAS IN WHICH THE CHOOSE TO BUTTRUSS THE CLASS ENVY FACTION. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WAS IT BY ANY “FAIR” MEASURE THAT A SINATRA, BARELY CAPABLE OF ACTUALLY SINGING RATRHER THAN PRESENTING SHULD BE PAID 7 FIGURES FOR INDIVIDUAL CONCERT APPEARANCES, LET ALONE FULL COMPENSATION FOR A LIMITED TOUR. BEFORE ANYONE CHOOSES TPO TAKE UMBRIDGE @ MY CHOICE OF WORDS CRITIQUING “OLE BLUE EYES’” END OF CAREER SINGING CAPABILITY, I CHALLENGE ANYONE OF YOU TO LISTEN TO ONE OF HIS CLASSICS FROM THE 50s, THE INTONATIONS, PRONUNCIATIONS, CRISPNESS & SINGING RANGE & CAPACITY & COMPARE HIS ABILITIES THEN TO A REPRISE POERFORMED NEAR HIS END & IT’S PATENTLY OBVIOUS “HIS WAY” HAD DETERIORATED SIGTNIFICANTLY IN NUTS,BOLTS OF SINGING AS OPPOSED TO HIS IMPROVED CAPABILITIES IN “PRESENTING”.

But let me ask you this question…

Does making 2% more money to go live in a city thats not as attractive nor can provide you with extra income worth going to?

Is leaving the 5% you can make ON TOP of your salary worth giving up in the name of 2% somewhere else?

People sometimes are pennywise and pund foolish!

They go for the quick money and forget about nall the money that could be earned if they took less to stay in the bigger market!

For all we know, that might be Reyes’ priority as well. He might want to stay with the Mets but if it’s not the highest offer, he might very well walk.

There is a LOT more value to playing in NY than just your salary!

Look ahead…
He would be 34 at the end of the deal FIRMLY ENTRENCHED as a MY Met Icon (the way Jeter is now) and would get more from us in the NEXT deal the way Jeter got more than from anyone else not named the Yankees!

He could easily make another 10-15 Million in endorsements and such by playing here than he will in Philadelphia or Florida!

But you guys don’t seem to think outside the payroll and the stats!
I bet his Agent knows full weel if the Mets even come CLOSE to matching any offer that more money can be made here even if Reyes takes 2-5 mil less per year to stay!

Why do you think the Mets are his first choice?
Why else would his Agent even let on that he would rather stay?
Because he wants the mets to give him less knowing that’s his preference? Or because he knows whatever he doesn’t make off the team he will make off the largest market and biggest stage in the country?

If you know 6-8 teams will be lining up for him, don’t you think his agent knows it too? they even said earlier they fully well planned to test the waters.

and no, you and bayonne really don’t know what conversations Sandy and the team had with him or his agent. And it isn’t like another teams FA that has to be shown the city to woo him.

the only way he was siging in the 5 day window was if the team dropped a premptive nuclear bid on him (7/150?) with a take it now or goodbye option.