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Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for paroleThese were Juan Soto’s numbers in 2024: 41 home runs, 109 RBIs, a .288 batting average. Keep doing that over the next 15 years, and he’ll be making roughly $1.2 million for every home run. Or $467,890 for every RBI. Or $307,229 for every hit. (Pre-tax, of course.) Soto’s $765 million, 15-year agreement with the New York Mets — the richest contract in terms of total value to a player in U.S. major sports history, a massive move by billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen — provides a chance to look at the numbers in some very silly ways. He’ll make $314,815 per game. Based on his numbers this season, he’d get $671,053 for every extra-base hit. Or $46,322 every time he swings the bat no matter if he misses, hits a tapper back to the mound or has Mr. Met celebrating in the stands after driving one out at Citi Field. Of course, that’s assuming Soto remains as healthy and productive as he was in 2024. If he misses significant time, those rates just go up. “Thank you Uncle Steve,” Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo wrote on social media. Some of the numbers around the sports world, when broken down by accomplishment, are simply eye-popping in this era. (And keep in mind, these examples are based on current earnings, not taking into account restructurings or any other potential changes.) A look: MLB: Blake Snell, Dodgers The two-time Cy Young winner will earn about $65 million in 2025, most of which is a signing bonus that comes his way in January. He’s also never made more than 32 starts in a season. If he makes 32 starts in 2025, he’d be getting (when factoring in the signing bonus) $2,031,250 per game. For comparison’s sake, Detroit’s Tarik Skubal made $2.65 million for the entire 2024 season — and won a Cy Young award. MLB: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers His record $700 million deal is no longer a record because of the Soto deal, but Ohtani still holds the mark for average total value at $70 million a year. The only member of baseball’s 50-50 club (54 homers, 59 stolen bases in 2024) would — at this past season’s rate — be making $619,469 every time he hits one out or steals a base. NFL: Dak Prescott, Cowboys It’s unfair to break down his stats this year because he’s hurt, but Prescott’s current deal is worth an average of $60 million a season from Dallas. Based on his career average, that means over the lifetime of his current contract, Prescott gets $13,680 for every passing yard. NFL: Quarterbacks in general The per-game numbers in the NFL for starting quarterbacks are wild. Patrick Mahomes’ current $450 million contract isn’t even at the top of the cash-per-game standings: Prescott gets about $3.5 million for every Dallas regular season game, while Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Green Bay’s Jordan Love are around $3.25 million per game. NBA: Stephen Curry, Warriors At nearly $56 million this season, Curry leads the NBA salary race (for this year, anyway). The NBA’s all-time 3-point king is earning about $680,000 per game in 2024-25; if he was paid by the 3-pointer only, he’d be getting about $161,908 every time he makes one of those this season. NBA: Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, Celtics Brown is starting a five-year deal worth around $285 million, Tatum will start a five-year deal next year worth around $314 million. At those rates, the Celtics would be paying their two best players (at their current scoring paces) around $27,406 for every point scored. To compare — Larry Bird, for his career, made about $1,100 per point. NHL: Leon Draisaitl, Oilers He’ll start a contract next year that will pay him an average of $14 million a season over eight seasons. At his current rate of scoring, he’d be earning roughly $119,393 for every goal or assist over that span. NHL: Igor Shesterkin, Rangers Shesterkin just got the richest extension for a goalie, $92 million over eight years. At his current averages, every time he makes a save, he’ll be earning $5,084. MLS: Lionel Messi, Inter Miami Based just on his Major League Soccer guaranteed salary, Messi got just over $1 million per goal this season ($20.4 million, 20 goals). Again, just counting the MLS salary — his full deal with Inter Miami is worth at least $150 million for 21⁄2 years — Messi made $229 for every second he was on the field during the 2024 regular season. Golf: Scottie Scheffler, PGA Scheffler’s official earnings in 2024 were $29,228,357 (plus an Olympic gold medal, which is priceless). And that doesn’t include $34,037,500 million in bonuses and unofficial earnings, including $25 million for winning the FedExCup. Add it all up, and that meant the world’s No. 1 player earned about $11,243 per shot he took this season.Telcos' Investment Recovery In Doubt As Tariff Hike Backfires, Price War With Satcom Services Looms In 2025

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators say they expect Canada and the U.S. to work collaboratively on shared issues of defence and the border, but suggested Ottawa’s policies on military spending need to change to speed up progress. Speaking to Mercedes Stephenson from the Halifax International Security Forum in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block , Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire downplayed concerns that incoming president-elect Donald Trump will penalize Canada on things like trade if it doesn’t step up on defence spending. But Risch suggested Washington was growing impatient on Canada’s progress meeting NATO’s benchmark of spending at least two per cent on defence, which Ottawa says it plans to meet eight years from now. “If Donald Trump was sitting right here, you’d get a big guffaw out of him on 2032, because that’s a long ways from what we’re dealing with in the world right now,” he said. “That’s an eternity down the road for us. This needs to be done now.” Canada is one of just eight NATO members not meeting the alliance’s two-per cent defence spending benchmark. Its updated defence policy forecasts spending will rise from 1.37 per cent of GDP currently to 1.76 per cent by 2030. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed at July’s NATO summit that Canada’s defence spending will hit two per cent by 2032. Yet the parliamentary budget officer last month said the government’s plan for achieving that is unclear and based on “erroneous” economic projections. The financial watchdog’s report said Canada will have to nearly double its annual military spending to $81.9 billion from current levels to achieve the NATO target — a difficult task for a government facing financial headwinds and new commitments to address Canadians’ cost of living. At the Halifax forum’s opening on Friday, Defence Minister Bill Blair defended the defence spending timeline as “credible and verifiable,” and that Canada was doing the work necessary to build up its military while looking at ways to “accelerate” its objectives. Trump’s criticism of NATO members that don’t meet their spending commitments as “delinquent,” and suggesting he wouldn’t come to their aid in the event of an attack, has added urgency to the issue. Matthew Whitaker, Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to NATO, has made similar comments. Risch noted he and Shaheen regularly talk to European NATO members that are meeting the spending target despite having smaller economies than Canada. “Canada’s going to have to step up,” he said. “This isn’t easy. It isn’t easy for us either. It certainly isn’t easy for a lot of those European countries. But the NATO alliance is the strongest, most successful military alliance in the history of the world. ... We’ve got an obligation to each other. And that obligation today is is more needed than it’s ever been needed.” Shaheen said she has had positive discussions with Blair in Halifax and that both Canada and the U.S. want to solve issues of defence together. “I don’t see it that way,” she said when asked if Canada faces any risk from the Trump administration if it doesn’t step up more quickly. “This is in our interests in the United States, it’s in Canada’s interest, it’s in the interests of all of those NATO members to see that we remain strong because of the threats that we face.” Risch added while there is cooperation between the American and Canadian militaries and defence officials, “the public policy in Canada has got to shift on this or it’s going to be a serious problem.” The two senators, whose states both border Canada, said Ottawa must also do its part to address immigration concerns that are a top priority for the Trump administration. Trump’s newly-appointed “border czar” Tom Homan has called the Canada-U.S. border “an extreme national security vulnerability” that can be a “gateway” for terrorist suspects crossing into the U.S. Last month, USBP chief patrol agent Robert Garcia — who oversees the section of the border known as the Swanton Sector, comprising eastern Ontario, Quebec, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire — said agents have apprehended more than 19,222 subjects from 97 different countries since last October. He said that’s more than its last 17 fiscal years combined. “I can tell you that the northern border is a concern for us in New Hampshire,” Shaheen said, noting the number of people crossing from Canada into the upper northeast U.S. has increased “dramatically” in recent years. “We’ve been working with Canadian officials and we’ve seen some progress,” she said. “But it’s something that we’ve got to work on, because ... we want to maintain the longest border in the world (in a way) that’s secure. And so we need to work together to make that happen.” Although Risch said the northern border was “a matter that needs work,” the situation pales in comparison to the U.S.-Mexico border, which saw nearly 54,000 encounters in September alone. Although that number has declined 78 per cent since last December, Trump has vowed to shut down the border and severely limit asylum claims, as well as mass deportations. “Our problem is our southern border,” Risch said. “And by the way, that southern border is not only a problem for us, it’s a problem for you, too, because once they get into the United States, it’s relatively easy to cross (into Canada). “(Trump is) going to go back to having a closed border on the southern border.”None

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