Due to a gaffe while dividing up World Series shares, everyone on the 2009 Yankees must give back $10,000 each.
The Yankees divvied up $21.2 million between 46 players and coaches (not including 12.25 partial shares), making the full share worth a record $365,052. However, the MLBPA recently issued a letter to everyone who received a full share saying that three people on the team didn’t receive their proper cut. The result is that each person who got a full share must give back $10,000 in order to compensate the other three (two trainers and a player) who were shysted. Now the Yanks’ full-share record is a record no more, as the 2006 Cardinals reclaim the bench mark at $362,173. Hey, you can’t win ‘em all.
Look on the bright side though: can you imagine how pissed Johnny Damon was when he found out? I would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall as he opened that letter.
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[...] series winning team gets to decide who gets a portion (players, managers, trainers, ect..) and Yanks Go Yard have the information about this year’s cut here. You have to be pretty greedy to want to leave a player’s name off the list when you’re [...]