Previously, I wrote a piece on attendance clauses in contracts of professional sports players. Recently, a story broke which touched upon my analysis.

In Ken Griffey Jr’s contract with the Seattle Mariners, there is a clause which will pay Griff a hefty $1.25 million bonus if he is able to maintain last season’s statistics and shove in 259 more fans at home games. Well, the Wall Street Journal has reported that this season, attendance is down! What effect will this have on Griffey?

It will potentially shave $450,000 off of his contract bonus. One more interesting piece of brain food is that the median salary in the city of Seattle is $45,000. Maybe the economy has something to do with this.

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Playing only 41 games in Chicago after being traded from Cincinnati, Griffey now is out of a job. Rest assured, he will be picked up by someone.

In 41 games with the White Sox, Griffey scored 16 runs, had 34 hits, 3 home runs, and had a batting average of .260

In his career, Griffey has a combined batting average of .288 with 611 home runs.

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