May

Playing for all the right reasons

â€œIâ€™m here to get my fair share of money. My main priority is to stay healthy and be able to make money, not to go out and try and hurry up and win a championship this year (at the risk of injury).
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â€œIâ€™ve got a lot of money to be made in this game, whether itâ€™s with Boston or not. My goal is to make sure Iâ€™m ready to play every day and to make money, and you canâ€™t make money if youâ€™re sitting on the bench. Thatâ€™s the way I look at it.â€

Yeah, he’s a money closer alright. You can take that to the bank.

(hat tip to YF vs. SF)

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5 Comments»

steve says:

May 1, 2007 at 8:53 pm

wooow. sounds like a nice guy … heh. who actually says that to a journalist besides randy moss or TO ?

John says:

May 1, 2007 at 8:53 pm

It’s crass, but I can imagine the “Did you move to the pen to help the team?” question that set that up. Paps needs to work on his Crash Davis responces.

Barry says:

May 1, 2007 at 9:33 pm

lol he just fucked himself, good luck to ever getting a good contract again

Tom says:

May 1, 2007 at 10:37 pm

Wow, someone needs a handler

NBarnes says:

May 2, 2007 at 7:10 am

B.J. Ryan is making about $10 a year to not be as good as Papelbon is. Anybody that says that making $325,000 when someone not as good at your job as you are is making $10,000,000 isn’t motivating is either a Mennonite or lying. Papelbon doesn’t do what he does in the pen without being aggressive to the point of near pathology, and this is just another facet of him being young, hungry, and ambitious.

Mariano Rivera expressed basically the same sentiment before the season, about wanting a new contract. So did Curt Shilling.

Might also ask your center fielder about the role money plays in the way baseball players think. Or your center fielder prior to that one, for that matter.

For the record, I agree with Shilling. When a team doesn’t offer money, that’s business. When a player demands money, that’s business, too.