'Bobby Bonilla Day': Retire MLB'er makes bank every July 1
Bobby Bonilla is a retired MLB player who last took the field in 2001, but, 20 years later, is still getting paid $1.2 million a year by the New York Mets. In fact, he'll get paid $1,193,248.20 a year every year until 2035, when Bonilla is 72 entire years old. At that point, the final sum will be $29.8 million paid for a sport Bonilla will not have played professionally for 34 years. In 1999, the New York Mets wanted to get rid of Bonilla, but still owed him almost $6 million on his contract. Obviously, we all know how the Madoff scheme turned out, so unfortunately for the Mets, they never saw that return.