{"id":2154,"date":"2007-01-11T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/more_sports_sal\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T21:23:21","slug":"more_sports_sal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/more_sports_sal\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sports Salary Craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought sports salaries <a title=\"Beckham leaving Europe to play for MLS\" href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/soccer\/01\/11\/beckham.mls\/index.html?cnn=yes\">couldn&#8217;t get any worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Beckham agreed to a five-year deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, leaving the Real Madrid club at which he enjoyed worldwide popularity but experienced disappointment on the field.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nMLS recently changed its rules on salary caps, clearing the way for Beckham to sign a lucrative deal. British news reports put the Galaxy deal at $250 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$250 million?  I didn&#8217;t realize the entire MLS was worth that much, much less one player.<br \/>\nI guess I can understand the economics of this in revenue-producing sports, but here we&#8217;re talking about soccer.  In America.  I consider myself to be a fairly knowledgeable sports fan, and I couldn&#8217;t name four teams in the MLS.  But if someone wants to shell out that kind of money for a player, more power to them.  I&#8217;m just glad I&#8217;m not a Galaxy ticket buyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/more_sports_sal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to More Sports Salary Craziness\"><p>Just when you thought sports salaries couldn&#8217;t get any worse: David Beckham agreed to a five-year deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, leaving the Real Madrid club at which he enjoyed worldwide popularity but experienced disappointment on the field. . . . MLS recently changed its rules on salary caps, clearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}