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05-03-2013, 08:33 AM #109
Re: McKinnie returns.
You know, McKinney could have drawn this out and tried to milk a little more up front any number of big spender teams - especially ones like the Cowgirls or Miami who's been throwing around money. Instead, he comes back to a place that's been on his ass, negotiated him out of a mil or so at the last minute and lost the two guys who were lobbying for the team to pick him up when he first came here. I wonder if winning a championship, and the experience leading up to it helped him screw his head on right?
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05-03-2013, 09:03 AM #111
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Re: McKinnie returns.
I'd be willing to bet it's structured so it's essentially a 1 year deal with an option for next year. I'd have to think Ozzie looks at this signing as buying him one more year to find a young LT option whose initials are not K.O.
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05-03-2013, 09:34 AM #113
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Re: McKinnie returns.
Now we know they really did want him back. Ozzie probably had a check with me deal with McKinnie. He went out and got his best offer and then gave Ozzie the chance to beat it.
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05-03-2013, 09:37 AM #114Veteran Poster
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Re: McKinnie returns.
Speaking of debt and living pay check to pay check.
Remember Hartwell's big pay day when he left here?
He went bankrupt and foreclosed on his $2M beach front estate. A lot of old
ball players hocked their SB rings to get money. The pawn shop in Vegas
has an entire case of original SB rings sold over the years.
As Brooks Robinson said years ago when he filed bankruptcy, no one ever
educated ball players in money. Johnny U filed bankruptcy too.
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05-03-2013, 09:39 AM #116
Re: McKinnie Signs 2 year deal with Ravens
The Ravens picked him up a couple years ago after the Vikings cut him for weight and bad workout ethic. I remember the board being real worried about who was going to be our LT back then also, and the signing being a surprise as well. Many posters thought his contract would be incentive laden in order to motivate him.
I wonder if anyone knows what incentives were on his previous contract, and how many he actually achieved?Twenty years of Cheers.
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05-03-2013, 09:40 AM #117Veteran Poster
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05-03-2013, 09:40 AM #118
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Re: McKinnie returns.
Yea, I think they do but Brooks said that 40 years ago when his sporting goods store
went out of business.
Arty Donovan sure knew how to make money back in the days when players didn't
make money. A fan loved him so much he left him two bars. He managed one and
his wife managed the other.
He said his wife was a fianancial whiz and turned the bars into the Maryland
Country Club they still own in Towson. She later taught financial course at
Princeton.
One time Arty fell in its swimming pool when he was cleaning it while empty and
it took the entire fire dept to get him out-lol.
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05-03-2013, 09:51 AM #120Legendary RSR Poster
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