Robbie Alomar

Well, we've now learned she's an arm wrestler, so that's new:

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/02/11/2009-02-11_new_girlfriend_says_roberto_alomars_exgi.html
Dall declined to comment at her home in Whitestone, Queens - a $5 million mansion bought by a trust set up by Alomar. The grandiose three-story yellow stucco house has a pool, a marble portico and 12-foot windows.
Neighbors said Dall - a competitive arm wrestler and spa owner who got divorced in 2007 - lives there with her two kids.

 

Drip, maybe you should figure why the usual stuff ALWAYS happens after one of your comments. This thread was volatile enough without adding some of your incendiary observations. My two cents.

 

This post passed much too quietly.

 

Anyone wonder if Alomar's timing to get back into the game is no coincidence. A) He wants to show he's healthy, because you can have AIDs and not be dying, B) Maybe he wants to stockpile some cash, just in case there's a payment.

 

He played 17 years and I would say made a heft salary, and I don't have the figures, for about 10 of those years. I'd like to think that he does have the cash.

 

1989 San Diego Padres $150,000
1990 San Diego Padres $390,000
1991 Toronto Blue Jays $1,300,000
1992 Toronto Blue Jays $2,983,333
1993 Toronto Blue Jays $4,933,333
1994 Toronto Blue Jays $5,433,334
1995 Toronto Blue Jays $5,500,000
1996 Baltimore Orioles $4,279,379
1997 Baltimore Orioles $6,354,379
1998 Baltimore Orioles $6,343,771
1999 Cleveland Indians $7,049,966
2000 Cleveland Indians $7,196,656
2001 Cleveland Indians $7,750,000
2002 New York Mets $7,939,664
2003 New York Mets $8,000,000
2004 Arizona Diamondbacks $1,000,000
Career (may be incomplete) $76,603,815

 

Robbie loves baseball. It's what you do when your name is Alomar. Nobody played second base better than Alomar in his prime. I'll argue that there never has been a better all-around second baseman. He knows the game inside and out and played it at a higher level than even the people with whom he shared the field. If there was a league above the Majors, he could have played in it. I'm sure he has plenty to offer if he decides to get involved. His father, Sandy, still has plenty to offer beyond being one of the nicest, most engaging men in the game.

 

Those words were couhed for a reason...

 

Thanks Buck... damn, wish my past employment record looked like that.

 

Not to mention what he made hawking McCain's frozen juices in the early 90's.

 

You mean you didn't make more than $7 million every year from 1999 to 2003? Geez, what you have been doing?