Word: overpaid
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...spending has continued in both boroughs this offseason. Interestingly, the teams seem to be moving in opposite directions. While the Mets have acquired Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran to add to a competent core of veterans and top prospects, the Yankees are slowly but surely becoming a team of overpaid has-beens. The Mets could be the best team in New York in as little as two years...
...group of self-proclaimed “idiots” like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar. The Yankees, on the other hand, have idiots in the literal sense of the word, guys like the immature Brown, who broke his hand punching a wall this September, and the overpaid A-Rod, who picked a fight with Jason Varitek on July 24 that ignited the long-dormant Red Sox to a sizzling second half of the season...
Kris Benson, meanwhile, established himself this winter as one of the most overpaid pitchers in recent memory, but the Mets can be excused one mishap. Benson is about as average as pitchers can be, sporting a career record of 47-53 and an ERA of 4.28, slightly better than the NL average of 4.41 over that span. He didn’t deserve $22.5 million, but will still help the club...
...companies have twice been foiled in their efforts to buy stakes in fields in Kazakhstan, and they haven't secured any other significant drilling rights in Central Asia or the Middle East. The fields that Chinese companies have bought into are already mature, and many experts feel they have overpaid. "China has been singularly unsuccessful in its overseas ventures," says Jim Brock, a Beijing-based energy consultant. "They're trying to learn in a decade what it's taken big foreign companies a century to master...
After trading touchdowns in the first extra session, the Bulldogs settled for a field goal in its half of the second. Tiger wide receiver B.J. Symanski—now an overpaid member of the Cincinnati Reds organization—caught the first pass for Princeton during its half of the second overtime period, but seeing the endzone just 12 yards in front of him he alertly fumbled the football to clinch the loss for his side...