health/physical reasons I think Jake is better off in pro baseball vice pro football if he can learn hit off speed pitches. Pro football players careers usually don’t last as long as baseball players either and if he’s turns out to be a very good baseball player I think he can make as much if not more than he would if football.

Take the Angel’s money!!

Jack

The average salary in MLB in 2008 was just over $3.2 million, while the average 2009 NFL salary was slightly over $700K. The average MLB career is 5.6 years, while the average NFL career is 3.5 seasons. If Jake were to have nothing more than an “average” career in either sport (provided he were to make the major leagues in baseball, no small feat), numbers alone say he’d stand to make about $15 million more, and likely be physically in far better condition when his playing days are finished. For strictly selfish reasons, I hope Jake stays in football, but in reality, he’s likely better off on the baseball diamond.

WItnessing Marques Tuiasosopo’s floundering football career, I’ve often wondered what might have been if he’d gone down the baseball path. I umpired dozens of his games while he was in high school and spoke to several scouts about his future, which they told me was off the charts. Through his Junior season at Woodinville HS, he was projected to go in the first three rounds of the baseball draft. His senior season wasn’t anything special, but everyone knew he was focused on football. I still wonder if he could have made a greater impact on the professional level with baseball, had he chosen that route. I umpired Grady Sizemore several times a few years later and thought that Marques was hands-down the better baseball player, at least on the High School level.

I’m an Oakland Athletics fan from way-back. Still am. (geeze it’s hard to give up on your team now isn’t it?). I dig on Jake so much, I’d be forced to attend Angels’ games- even without an A’s series!!!!

He’s that good. And I’m a firm believer in his birthright to lead the Huskies to a bowl championship!

I’d play football, just because it’s football. I use to be a bigger baseball fan, but it has started to bore me as of late. I tend to think Jake will make plenty of money no matter which sport he ends up playing. Is it really that much of a difference if you make 15 million in one sport, when you could have made 20 million in the other? Either way you are living a very good life.

What about life styles? Baseball is a VERY long demanding season, and he’d spend more time on the road than most pilots do! Football is a shorter season, with more time at home with family for equal money. I’d take the football lifestyle everyday, and twice on Sundays.

Really, when it comes down to it, in the long run there’s not going to be a big difference in his lifestyle no matter which sport he ends up playing. We are really splitting hairs here, no matter which sport he plays professionally he’s going to have a great life getting paid MILLIONS to play a game.

From what I hear they say he has the potential to be a hall of famer.

When you are 17 you have plenty of time…when you are 23 you have ticks on the clock. You either have it or you don’t. Jake has it in both sports but the clock is ticking in both.

I think that’s a smart strategy by Woodmert. If they get the legislature to buy in and get half the funding for Husky Stadium it’s a big win. That’s still 125 million and a significant contribution.

If it doesn’t get done, it will be because the legislature CHOSE not to fund it (or should I say allow King County to fund it). I don’t want to hear excuses from them blaming the wsu fans. I mean give me a break! WSU is going to oppose it again. They think THEY’RE the ones that defeated the last proposal, if I were them I’d double the effort to quash it a second time and most likely the LAST time.