and got out of more of Spring Training. Instead of getting 20 mil this year he gets 25 in exchange for defering some cash. If I heard/read right.
i think it was all about the deferred payments. Athletes (and most people, really) hate deferred payments. That was the sticking point, just how much would be deferred.
The art of being an engineer: packing 10 lbs of crap into a 5 lb box.