Things Worth $158.9 million Other Than the 2011 Phillies
By Justin Klugh
The Phillies’ current payroll of close to $160 million blows the doors off any other roster in their history. If they weren’t perfect players, would we literally be paying more money than ever for them? I don’t think so. Case closed.Things Worth $158.9 million:
- The fourth quarter profits of Delta Airlines (ALERT JEFF FRANCOEUR)
- 3 1/3 years with the world’s most expensive prostitute
- The collective costs of workplace asthma in the United Kingdom
- A 25-year prison sentence
- A prison to spend it in
- The earnings of The Dark Knight during it’s opening weekend
- Heightened testing for mad cow disease
- 34.5% of Citizens Bank Park
- 100% of Ranch-Glendale Ballpark
- The Gross Domestic Product of Namibia in 2001
- Our country’s biggest desalination plant
- 57 and a half Danys Baezes
- An Air Force tactical command center
- J. Turner Butler Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida
- A Navy hospital
- Almost four entire Pittsburgh Pirate rosters
- Total good exports for Tanzania
- Exploring a mine
- The salaries of all principal cast members during the last season “Friends” with enough left over to produce The Tooth Fairy starring Dwayne Johnson
- The video games sales record in New Zealand
- A fine from the Environmental Management Agency for failure to include fire safety measures in a waste disposal plant
- Ownership of the Florida Marlins eight years ago
- 93 Bugatti Veyrons