Apparently professional athletes do not get paid enough, AJ Burnett has agreed to pay for teammate Daniel McCutchen’s daughter’s college tuition. When Burnett joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in the off season, he wanted to keep his No.34 jersey. Only problem was McCutchen already had the number.
When Burnett tried to negotiate with McCutchen, he said he would give up the number if Burnett paid his daughter’s college tuition. Lucky for Burnett he has a lot of time because McCutchen’s daughter is due in May.
In the past, players have requested Rolexs or vacations in exchange to give up their number.
Although the Theo Epstein compensation has finally come to a resolution, the Boston Red Sox have another headache from the Chicago Cubs on their hands. A Cubs fan bought the domain name to Boston’s new spring training park, JetBlue Park at Fenway South. Eric Engelman is a Fort Myers resident and life long Cubs fan. After seeing the naming rights story on the local news, Engelman bought the domain name for $8.00 on his wife’s GoDaddy account and redirected the website to NewYorkYankees.com
Unbeknownst to the Red Sox front office, Red Sox senior adviser Charlie Steinberg was made aware of the website blunder at a press conference when he typed jetbluepark.com onto his phone. Steinberg told media and Sam Kennedy, executive vice president and chief operating officer, “We’re going to have to look into that.”
You may not get Derek Jeter’s phone numbers but the New York Yankees slugger gives gift baskets to his one night stands. According to the New York Post, “Derek has girls stay with him at his apartment in New York, and then he gets them a car to take them home the next day. Waiting in his car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball.”
After a well publicized break up with his long time girlfriend actress Minka Kelly this summer, Jeter is a little rusty in the dating game. He made the mistake of regifting a second gift basket to a girl he had forgotten he had hooked up with before.
But don’t feel too bad, an autographed baseball is worth $250!
