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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
some people…claim the ex-Brave used his baseball reputation to trick them out of as much as $1,000 each by falsely promising he could win early release for their loved one in state prison.
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1. Shredder Posted: February 12, 2013 at 06:23 PM (#4368295)Nixon looks the same as he did in his playing days. If this keeps up, he'll look his real age in about 15 years.
I hope his defense is "Jesus made me do it."
"As much as $1,000..."? Early release from state is worth $400? $800? I don't know what's worse--the scumbaggery involved, or the complete lack of ambition. Besides, who's he 'helping'? People who have been to prison sometimes do resent your stealing money from their relatives.
Fun fact: Otis Nixon made (at least) $19,927,500 during his baseball career.
Let's say Otis made $21M, and two-thirds of it went to agents and taxes and stuff like that. That leaves a career take-home pay of $7,000,000.
Seven million dollars. If your working life is 50 years, you'd have to average $140,000 a year -- after taxes -- to make that much money in your lifetime. (Actually, you'd have to earn much more to keep up with inflation, but never mind.) The mind reels.
Never trust a Nixon.
"People have got to know whether or not their center fielder is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."
Well, at least they aren't shooting anyone who drives by them in a truck.
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