Listening to baseball highlights while brainstorming fundraising ideas.
Do you ever just wish the guy who makes 20 million a year playing a ball game would toss you 20K to adopt a kid?
Here's an interesting perspective....(just for "fun")
Below are the 2009 salaries for the top 25 Major League Baseball players on active rosters and disabled lists as of June 1.
1. 3B Alex Rodriguez, NYY $ 33,000,000
2. OF Manny Ramirez, LA $ 23,854,494
3. SS Derek Jeter, NYY $ 21,600,000
4. 1B Mark Teixeira, NYY $ 20,625,000
5. OF Carlos Beltran, NYM $ 19,243,682
6. OF Carlos Lee, HOU $ 19,000,000
7. OF Magglio Ordonez, DET $ 18,971,596
8. SP/LH Johan Santana, NYM $ 18,876,139
9. SP/RH Carlos Zambrano, CHC $ 18,750,000
10. SP/LH Barry Zito, SF $ 18,500,000
11. OF Torii Hunter, LAA $ 18,000,000
12. OF Ichiro Suzuki, SEA $ 18,000,000
13. OF Alfonso Soriano, CHC $ 17,000,000
14. 3B Aramis Ramirez, CHC $ 16,650,000
15. 1B Todd Helton, COL $ 16,600,000
16. SP/RH A.J. Burnett, NYY $ 16,500,000
17. SP/RH Tim Hudson, ATL $ 15,500,000
18. SP/LH CC Sabathia, NYY $ 15,285,714
19. SP/RH Jason Schmidt, LA $ 15,217,401
20. OF Vladimir Guerrero, LAA $ 15,000,000
21. 1B Ryan Howard, PHI $ 15,000,000
22. SP/RH Derek Lowe, ATL $ 15,000,000
23. RP/RH Mariano Rivera, NYY $ 15,000,000
24. SS Miguel Tejada, HOU $ 14,811,414
25. 1B Lance Berkman, HOU $ 14,500,000
Ever wish you had the guts to send 'em a fundraising letter?! Of course, not - but it's fun to imagine it!
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