# Ohh, a whole thousand dollars.(Baseball) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026 "2005-10-20T03:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/1 "2005-10-20T03:30:01Z")
So I’ve been watching the various baseball games half-assedly. And currently am watching the Cards-'Stros game six. They just announce the player of the game, Oswalt. “And in honor of his effort Chevy is donating $1000 to the Boy’s and Girls club.” Wow, be still my beating heart. Ten C-notes, real generous. Considering everybody on the field makes over $1000 bucks an hour. Chevy probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for commericals during the game. Hell I bet many people in the stands spent 1000 bucks on tickets. The time it takes to announce you are donating 1000 dollars probably costs ten times that in sponsorships fees. Maybe 1000 bucks on behalf of the MVP seemed big in 1954, but it’s just pathetic and insulting now. It’s even too pathetic to get worked up into a rant, but does anybody else just find it assinine to actually annouce it? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/2 "2005-10-20T03:59:44Z")
_stops writing $1000 check to **wolfman**._ Don’t they do that every game? After a while, it adds up, I suppose. > [@](#): > > The time it takes to announce you are donating 1000 dollars probably costs ten times that in sponsorships fees So they’re getting that commercial basically for a 90% discount, by your calculations. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/3 "2005-10-20T11:21:55Z")
Well, it’s so common that I hardly even notice it, “Dominoes will donate $1000 to the scholarship fund at each college in the name of \.” Basically, Chevy probably gives several million to charities each year, and this is just a way of fulfilling some of that while getting their name mentioned again. Obviously $1000 is chump change to Chevy, but they probably do this HUNDREDS of times each year. . .in baseball, college hoops, college foots, lots of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/4 "2005-10-20T11:54:04Z")
And at around about this time, the OP was donating an hour’s salary to whom exactly? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/5 "2005-10-20T11:55:53Z")
The ones that really get me are where they give the **player** a gift certificate to some restaurant or a clothing store. “Tonight’s player of the game, Manny Mota, gets a gift certificate for dinner at BoBo’s Steakhouse, 123 Fake St., Hohokus.” Like they need it, making 50x what I make in a year. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/6 "2005-10-20T12:19:50Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > The ones that really get me are where they give the **player** a gift certificate to some restaurant or a clothing store. “Tonight’s player of the game, Manny Mota, gets a gift certificate for dinner at BoBo’s Steakhouse, 123 Fake St., Hohokus.” > > Like they need it, making 50x what I make in a year. Back in the late Seventies, whichever player on the Yankees made the best defensive play of the game was awarded a free Butterfingers candy bar. Bet Graig Nettles was thrilled to death every time he got one. “Wow! I mean, I make 500 grand a year, but a free Butterfingers… I’ve MADE it!” ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohh-a-whole-thousand-dollars-baseball/327026/7 "2005-10-20T22:19:18Z")
> [@](#): > > And at around about this time, the OP was donating an hour’s salary to whom exactly? Well since I am currently unemployed again :(, The buck I gave some lady in the laudromat to wash her kids clothes was a donation more than a billion times my hourly salary. 🙂