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Ryan Howard's Allowance

Edgy DC Feb 12 2007 12:49 PM

Baseball Notebook: Even MVP Winners Must Make Allowances By Kitsap Sun news services February 12, 2007 Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard appears on tonight’s edition of HBO’s "Real Sports," where he comes clean with an admission that will shock America. Howard, the National League’s reigning most valuable player, lives off an allowance from his mom, who serves as his financial advisor. During an interview with Bryant Gumbel, Howard reveals that his mother, Cheryl, is his accountant who "handles the funds. Like, I’ll get it, and then I won’t see it. She’ll let me look at the check, and then it’s gone." Gumbel: "I know I’m prying, but does he then get an allowance?" Cheryl Howard: "Yes." Gumbel: "You realize he may be the only major leaguer, let alone the only MVP I’ve ever heard of, whose mother gives him an allowance." Cheryl Howard: "I would beg to differ. I would imagine that there are quite a few who, if they don’t have a wife, they have a mother, and there has to be somebody there to keep them on the straight and narrow. ... " Gumbel: "I wish that were true!" If it were, a lot more professional ballplayers would be getting sent to their bedrooms without any bling.

duan Feb 13 2007 06:43 AM

seriously, is there anything about Ryan Howard that doesn't make him a big huggable kid? about 5 important dingers against the mets I suppose.

Frayed Knot Feb 13 2007 08:55 AM

There was that story Ralph used to tell constantly (Ralph told all his stories constantly) about (I think it was) Manny Trillo. Some players give 5% of their contract to their agents, and some give 10%, but Trillo's agent gets 100% of his money ... that's because his agent is his wife!! - heh, heh, heh

Edgy DC Feb 13 2007 09:04 AM

Tim Burke had a wife for an agent as well. I'm sure there were others.

metirish Feb 13 2007 11:15 AM

duan wrote: seriously, is there anything about Ryan Howard that doesn't make him a big huggable kid? about 5 important dingers against the mets I suppose. Nope,Howard is so easy to like.....Gumbel though is a total bollox...

Johnny Dickshot Feb 13 2007 11:28 AM

]about 5 important dingers against the mets I suppose. I'm pretty sure we got Schoeneweis specifically to deny a few of them.

MFS62 Feb 13 2007 11:31 AM

I seem to recall that in the 50's several baseball players used to get an "allowance". Their agents would get their checks, and the players would get spending money while the agents would handle their finances/ pay their bills/ invest it for them. Later

Yancy Street Gang Feb 13 2007 11:40 AM

I didn't think players had agents in the 1950's.

Edgy DC Feb 13 2007 11:41 AM

It's interesting. He gets three years, $10.8 million when we wouldn't (or perhaps didn't get a chance to) top three years, $10.0 for Chad Bradford, our Burrell stopper. I guess part of the thinking is that Howard is younger and a better bet to continue to be a threat and to remain with the Phillies than Burrell. And a rightie specialist isn't as semingly necessary as a lefty specialist. But my gut tells me I'd rather have the Sub-Mariner, especially while our closer is a righty-vulnerable southpaw.

seawolf17 Feb 13 2007 11:49 AM

Bring me Jeff Innis! I agree with you, but short of Dan Quisenberry, have there been any sidewinders who have had a long stretch of success? (I have the Byung-Hyun Kim face in my head, watching those home runs fly out of the park against the MFYs.)

MFS62 Feb 13 2007 11:58 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I didn't think players had agents in the 1950's. Funny, I double clutched when it came time to post that. I couldn't remember the era, but I did remember reading the stories about agents giving players their allowances. Must have been later. Later

Johnny Dickshot Feb 13 2007 12:02 PM

Players could hire as many advisors or lawyers as they'd like, but the teams refused to negotiate with them.

dinosaur jesus Feb 13 2007 01:53 PM

seawolf17 wrote: Bring me Jeff Innis! I agree with you, but short of Dan Quisenberry, have there been any sidewinders who have had a long stretch of success? (I have the Byung-Hyun Kim face in my head, watching those home runs fly out of the park against the MFYs.) Well, there's Chad Bradford, who's had a good nine-year career. Kent Tekulve.Ted Abernathy. Elden Auker. Some excellent power pitchers have been sidearmers--Eckersley, Ewell Blackwell, Walter Johnson--but that's another subject. I think a sidearmer is as good a bet as anybody. If there weren't such a strong prejudice against them, Terry Leach would probably have had quite a successful career.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 13 2007 02:17 PM

I think we're in an era now where the Mets are more sidearm-positive than ever. They got Feliciano throwing one, they gave a shot to Takatsu, they're high on Bazooka Joe Smith, they traded for Schmoll, they certainly liked Bradford, etc etc etc