Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:08 pm Posts: 4678 Location: Morgantown, WV Gender: Female
I heard this the other day.
Apparently Atlanta Braves pitcher Chuck James (who's pretty fucking good btw, if you haven't noticed) works part time at Lowes in the offseason installing windows and doors. He makes the league minimum at $327,000/yr (which is still a lot of money) so he obviously doesn't need this job. Says he just likes having something to do.
I don't know. I just think that's kind of admirable. I mean how many people making 6 figures would work at Lowes just to have something to do?
Apparently Atlanta Braves pitcher Chuck James (who's pretty fucking good btw, if you haven't noticed) works part time at Lowes in the offseason installing windows and doors. He makes the league minimum at $327,000/yr (which is still a lot of money) so he obviously doesn't need this job. Says he just likes having something to do.
I don't know. I just think that's kind of admirable. I mean how many people making 6 figures would work at Lowes just to have something to do?
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yes, im sure this will continue.. im sure the Braves love the notion of their pitcher doing jobs with relatively high risks of finger and arm injuries.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:08 pm Posts: 4678 Location: Morgantown, WV Gender: Female
edzeppe wrote:
yes, im sure this will continue.. im sure the Braves love the notion of their pitcher doing jobs with relatively high risks of finger and arm injuries.
Yea, that's what i was thinking. But players are gonna do what they want to do. At least he's not out riding motorcycles w/ no helmet.
yes, im sure this will continue.. im sure the Braves love the notion of their pitcher doing jobs with relatively high risks of finger and arm injuries.
Yea, that's what i was thinking. But players are gonna do what they want to do. At least he's not out riding motorcycles w/ no helmet.
yes, im sure this will continue.. im sure the Braves love the notion of their pitcher doing jobs with relatively high risks of finger and arm injuries.
in the case of james, i think the braves are just happy he's stopped jumping off houses.
Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:56 am Posts: 551 Location: Canton, NY
You have to ask yourself if he's really making a lot of money in the big leagues. Atlanta is probably one of the more expensive places to live in the US, and if you don't want to worry about your mailbox getting shot full of holes, you might think of living in a better neighborhood, which takes a lot of money. Probably half of his salary goes to just keeping a decent home up. If you hit retirement which could be even 3 or 4 years away in the big leagues, you need to save a little of that unless you want to end up like Pete Rose.
The man could be buying into mucho employee stock options, which you are not going to do on Lowes' wages.
Then again, some people feel a sense of Zen from doing things like carpentry work. He might figure that he can make some money on the side doing that and find some fulfillment.
It's probably not a bad way to keep your muscles loose in the offseason either, rather than paying a quarter mil to some personal training center in Arizona to keep you in top condition. I have seen a lot of this from some of my teammates that ran D2/3 track and cross country. They worked construction during the summer and those guys built massive cardiovascular strength by lugging around 50 lb cinder blocks all day long.
Then again, maybe this guy just has an addiction to gambling or hookers that he uses the Lowes money for.
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You have to ask yourself if he's really making a lot of money in the big leagues. Atlanta is probably one of the more expensive places to live in the US, and if you don't want to worry about your mailbox getting shot full of holes, you might think of living in a better neighborhood, which takes a lot of money. Probably half of his salary goes to just keeping a decent home up. If you hit retirement which could be even 3 or 4 years away in the big leagues, you need to save a little of that unless you want to end up like Pete Rose.
The man could be buying into mucho employee stock options, which you are not going to do on Lowes' wages.
Then again, some people feel a sense of Zen from doing things like carpentry work. He might figure that he can make some money on the side doing that and find some fulfillment.
It's probably not a bad way to keep your muscles loose in the offseason either, rather than paying a quarter mil to some personal training center in Arizona to keep you in top condition. I have seen a lot of this from some of my teammates that ran D2/3 track and cross country. They worked construction during the summer and those guys built massive cardiovascular strength by lugging around 50 lb cinder blocks all day long.
Then again, maybe this guy just has an addiction to gambling or hookers that he uses the Lowes money for.
hmm not sure if i agree with your stance on the money
$325k a year is a ton!
not like he has to live in a nice house in buckhead.. im sure he is like most young athletes who have a nice condo .. you can always lease and a lot of teams help young players and players who were just called up with places to live
then when on the road they get X amount of cash each trip.. so food is always free for the most part..
i guarantee he is saving atleast 200k a year minimum
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