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...answer: Carlos Delgado, first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. Delgado signed an extension with the Jays at the end of the 2000 season that will pay him an average annual salary of $17 million. At the time, it was the largest yearly salary ever for a professional baseball player--that is, of course, until A-Rod went on the market...
...million Average annual salary Carlos Delgado will receive in a four-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, as baseball's highest-paid player...
...Stephen Carpenter, 29 (now Deftones' guitarist), in junior high school when the two were drawn together by their passion for skateboarding. Later, Moreno and Carpenter, along with drummer Abe Cunningham, 26, and bassist Chi Cheng, 29, formed Deftones and released its debut CD, Adrenaline, in 1995. Deejay Frank Delgado, 29, who performed on selected tracks on the debut, became a member after the second release...
...band's players hail from different ethnic backgrounds. Moreno and Delgado are Latino, Carpenter and Cunningham are white, and Chi Cheng is Chinese American. The racial mix is unusual in the mostly bleached-white world of hard rock but natural for a group from Sacramento. "It's really weird. We'll do interviews overseas, and they'll ask, 'What's it like being in a multiethnic band? Does that affect your music?'" says Cheng. "And we're like, 'Wow, man, come to our neighborhood. It's like that everywhere...
Musically too the band is an amalgam. Its music at points has the emotional delicacy of art-rock bands such as Radiohead; at other times the group's sound has the jagged intensity of punk rockers such as Nirvana. Deejay Delgado's hip-hoppy contributions are often more atmospheric than overt. "If there's anything hip-hop about our band, it's that it's groove-oriented," says Moreno. "Every song we have you can nod your head to like you would to a hip-hop song. But to me, hip-hop is more of a culture. We grew...