Cliff Didn't Leave $ On Table?
This doesn't strike me as rigorous analysis but...the cost of living figures are pretty nuts.
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NY is without a doubt more expensive than Philadelphia. But you can’t use a simple COLA calculator to come up with exact figures. How the “average” cost of living compares for residents in Philly and NY can’t provide too much information for how Cliff Lee’s cost of living might differ.
Plus, the whole tax thing always seems overstated. I suspect a significant percentage, if not a majority, of athletes don’t establish residence in their playing city. Lee, for instance, has supposedly already bought a big house in Arkansas that will be his primary (saw that on twitter, can’t find link). Plus there’s all that business about paying taxes in each state.
These guys must keep accountants happy.
Yeah, but athletes get taxed according to the days they were in that particular city. So he’ll have city income taxes deducted for 82 games in Philly, 18 in New York, 18 in Atlanta, etc, etc. You get taxed in the city you work even though you might live in an state without an income tax.
And yeah, the tax returns for these guys have to keep the accountants happy.
18 in New York, 18 in Atlanta
Did Selig change it so that teams play 36 games against division rivals next season?
by JulioBernazard on Dec 14, 2010 10:14 PM EST up reply actions
As if there is/was any possibility Cliff would move his family to NYC. He’d rather stay at the Y and commute to Arkansas on his off days.
Our best players wear suits.
I’m pretty sure Cliff would suffer just about any indignity rather than subject his family to the cess pool that is NYC.
Our best players wear suits.
In the last two days, I’ve collected a bagful of CDs of music, bought at a discount at the World Music Institute on 27th & 6th; I’ve had a fine Italian dinner in Brooklyn with a genial host, with Love Italian Style projected on a screen over the bar; walked from there 2 blocks to a bar that a couple of French expats started 8 years ago to watch the kids dancing to the cumbia band in the back; listened to New Yorker writer David Grann discuss his excellent book The Lost City of Z (with powerpoint accompaniment) at the National Arts Club, housed in the opulent mansion that Samuel Tilden had built in the 1860s; and walked a couple of blocks from there to have a fabulous Indian meal afterward. Walking past Jazz Standard, we realized we had just missed catching the last set of Houston Person and The Big Soul Band’s tribute to Johnny Griffin.
The Yankees are an affront to civilization. New York City is pretty great.
by YoDaddyWags on Dec 14, 2010 11:17 PM EST up reply actions
And the last time I spend any real time in NYC I was driven every where in a limo, stayed at the TirBeCa hotel, and ate at the Four Seasons. But I also watched a hooker service a client in broad day-light near the Bowery, stepped over a mound of garbage outside of Club 21 and saw a dead rat the size of tomcat in the gutter out side of what used to be the Down Town Athletic Club.
The food’s over rated – you can eat much better in Philly, the music’s much more interesting Houston and the people in Arkansas are much, much friendlier. In short New York is very over rated.
I’m not surprised Cliff chose anywhere but NYC I’d take a pay cut too, even if I had to live in Couer d’Alene in the winter.
Our best players wear suits.
This whole topic is vastly overplayed.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why he’d rather pitch in the National League and out of the Dallas heat.
A tough hombre like you can’t step over a pile of trash? What has the world come to?
by JulioBernazard on Dec 15, 2010 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
When are you slated to recite your poems at the 92nd Street Y?
by JulioBernazard on Dec 15, 2010 8:32 AM EST up reply actions
I’m using my refund to see YDW recite his baseball-themed verse.
by JulioBernazard on Dec 15, 2010 4:40 PM EST up reply actions
I have been offered jobs in NYC a few times, and I was daunted in part by the difference in cost of living.
Having said that, if someone offered me $34 million more to move to New York, I’m pretty confident I’d be coming out ahead.
Since I kind of do it for a living, I know that the COLA between NE Ohio and the Philly metro area is something like +35-40% (mainly due to housing costs)…I don’t even want to know what the NYC metro COLA would be.
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