Monday, April 28, 2008

Your Monday-night downer

San Diego surf bum, Zen meditater and yoga practitioner Barry Zito was demoted from the San Francisco Giants' starting rotation to its bullpen on Monday night.

Zito, in a word, sucks: he's 0-6 with an ERA over 7.00. A little over a year ago, the onetime Cy Young Award winner (who jobbed Pedro Martinez for said award, might I add) signed a 7-year, $126 million contract, at the time the richest for a pitcher in baseball history. For the Giants and their fans, that really sucks.

In their infinite wisdom, the Chron decided to make his misery our misery, whether or not you're a Giants fan. They published a Web app that lets you figure out how long it'd take you to earn Zito's $14.5 million annual salary.

Give it a go. Here's how I did:



382 years, huh? 2390, here we come! Year of the Me!



Fuck.

1 comment:

Sarah O. said...

Wow, bummer. Might be time to go back to plan A, peddling crack to middle schoolers.

Also: swanky new look, Martha!