23 - Contract Renewals, Part One

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SIGN    Contract Renewals, Part One
[01:33] bon
    The pro baseball world is currently
    in the middle of contract negotiations.
[01:38] rep
    Did you get to 250, Shiina-san?
[01:42] shi
    No.
[01:44] bon
    The Spiders' ace, Shiina-san,
[01:46] bon
    renewed his contract for 240 million,
    a 40 million increase.
[01:52] aki
    240 million, eh?
[01:53] aki
    You were right on the money, Natsunosuke.
[01:56] bon
    I guess so.
[01:57] aki
    But since we won the pennant,
[02:00] aki
    I thought he'd at least make it to 250.
[02:04] bon
    When you're already that highly paid,
    huge increases are hard to come by.
[02:09] bon
    So, when are your negotiations?
[02:11] aki
    Day after tomorrow.
[02:12] ono
    Tomorrow for me.
[02:14] bon
    You're tomorrow, Yukio?
[02:16] ono
    I set my goal for this season
    to appear in every game,
[02:21] ono
    but in the end, I only made 135 appearances.
[02:24] aki
    135 out of 143 is really good.
[02:27] aki
    And you pulled a .279 batting average.
[02:30] ono
    I only had ten home runs.
[02:32] ono
    Last year, I hit fourteen in 48 games.
[02:35] aki
    No, ten is a nice number.
[02:39] aki
    It makes a better impression than nine.
[02:41] aki
    Don't worry. Your contract's going up.
[02:43] aki
    Thirty-six. Maybe thirty-seven.
[02:46] ono
    Th-Thirty-seven million?
[02:48] ono
    I make 20 million now...
    You think they'd give me that much?
[02:52] aki
    We won the pennant,
    so thirty-eight's on the table.
[02:56] bon
    No, you're wrong.
[02:57] bon
    It'll be thirty-nine.
[03:00] aki
    Thirty-nine...
[03:01] ono
    ...million?
[03:03] bon
    Under normal circumstances,
    you might even get 40 million.
[03:06] bon
    You did appear in 135 games, after all.
[03:09] ono
    40 million?
[03:11] bon
    But 40 million would be
    double what you're making now.
[03:15] bon
    So I think they'll stop you
    just short of that.
[03:19] ono
    Is that how it works?
[03:22] aki
    Natsunosuke's predictions
    tend to be right on the money.
SIGN    Spiders Ball Club Management Building
[03:28] ono
    Thank you very much!
[03:30] ono
    I'm going to work even harder next year!
[03:33] bon
    Ohno Yukio renewed his contract,
    going from 20 million to 39 million.
[03:39] aki
    You got it right again, Natsunosuke.
[03:42] bon
    Yukio was so happy.
[03:45] aki
    Well, he was only making
    10 million the year before.
[03:49] bon
    He's really come a long way.
    He's even got me beat now.
[03:52] bon
    And tomorrow's your big day.
[03:54] aki
    I... I recorded three wins, four losses.
[03:57] aki
    ERA 4.45.
[03:59] aki
    Fifteen appearances as a starter,
    one as reliever.
[04:03] aki
    I was skipped in the rotation
    a few times, too.
[04:05] aki
    If I'd stayed in the entire time,
[04:08] aki
    I would've gotten 25 or 26 appearances.
[04:11] aki
    My salary's definitely going down.
[04:15] bon
    No, it'll stay the same.
[04:18] bon
    In fact, it might even increase a little.
[04:22] aki
    A-Are you serious?
[04:24] bon
    I mean, you still started fifteen games.
[04:27] bon
    Sure, you personally
    didn't record a lot of wins,
[04:30] bon
    but the team won many of
    the games you started.
[04:34] aki
    Y-Yeah! That's how I feel about it!
[04:36] bon
    You still contributed to the pennant win.
[04:39] bon
    And at the start of the season,
[04:41] bon
    you faced one roster ace after another.
[04:43] bon
    No way the team won't recognize that
    those losses were no fault of your own.
[04:48] aki
    You think?
[04:50] bon
    You're such a worrywart.
[04:52] bon
    We won the pennant, you know.
[04:55] aki
    Well, if you say so.
[04:59] aki
    36 and a half million?
[05:02] aki
    Not only did my salary not go down,
    you're tacking on 500 grand?
[05:05] aki
    N-Natsunosuke's prediction was a bullseye!
[05:08] man
    We can't low-ball a pitcher
    who started fifteen games.
[05:12] man
    Obviously.
[05:13] man
    We don't just base these things
    on whether you get wins or not.
[05:18] man
    Out of games you started,
    we won nine and lost six.
[05:21] man
    That's a win percentage of sixty.
[05:23] aki
    What's the 500,000 for, then?
[05:26] man
    We won the pennant, you know.
[05:28] man
    We couldn't just keep it the same,
    so we tacked on the extra 500 grand.
[05:32] aki
    Natsunosuke...
    Everything you said is coming true!
[05:36] man
    But, GM,
[05:37] man
    don't you think we're being a bit
    stingy with Shibuya-kun here?
[05:41] man
    We could make it a nice, round number.
[05:43] man
    That's a good point.
[05:46] man
    I'm making the call to turn
    the 500,000 into an even million.
[05:51] man
    We'll make it 37 million!
[05:57] bon
    You know what that's about, right?
[05:59] bon
    They were going to make
    it 37 million from the start.
[06:02] bon
    They just put on that little ceremonial
    drama to make you happy.
[06:06] bon
    You think so?
[06:07] bon
    Anyway, I'm definitely happy!
[06:10] bon
    And man, you really are sharp
    when it comes to stuff like this!
[06:15] bon
    Kawasaki-san...
[06:16] kawa
    Hey, there.
[06:18] kawa
    Hi, Natsunosuke, Akira.
[06:20] kawa
    You guys went through it today, too?
[06:23] aki
    Just me.
[06:24] kawa
    How'd it go?
[06:25] aki
    Awesome.
[06:26] kawa
    Glad to hear it.
[06:29] kawa
    Mine starts at 4 PM.
    I've got a bit of time to kill.
[06:32] bon
    Please, join us.
[06:35] kawa
    Thanks.
[06:36] kawa
    Who was after you?
[06:38] aki
    No one went in after me.
[06:41] kawa
    I see.
[06:43] kawa
    Then I bet those sly old foxes are
    formulating a strategy to deal with me.
[06:48] bon
    This season, in Kawasaki-san's
    twentieth in the pros,
[06:52] bon
    the veteran pitcher finally hit 150 wins.
SIGN    "I need a multi-year!"
SIGN    Doyo Sports Kawasaki Maruo 150-win pitcher for the Spiders
[06:57] bon
    On this day, he and the team failed to
    reach an agreement, prolonging the talks.
[07:02] aki
    Looks like Kawasaki-san is fighting them.
[07:05] bon
    Yeah.
[07:06] aki
    It says he wants a multi-year contract.
[07:09] aki
    Two years, you think? Three years?
[07:12] bon
    Three years, apparently.
[07:13] aki
    He's 39 next year...
[07:17] aki
    So at the end of the deal,
    he'll be 40, 41...
[07:20] aki
    There's no way that's happening.
[07:21] bon
    Kawasaki-san must have confidence
    in his longevity.
[07:25] aki
    But this year, he went
    three and four like me.
[07:29] aki
    The paper says he was offered an
    extension on his 60 million contract.
[07:33] bon
    You know, I would've expected
    Kawasaki-san's contract to go down,
[07:38] bon
    so I guess that's also part
    of the pennant effect.
[07:42] bon
    Kawasaki-san once made 230 million a year,
[07:45] bon
    but he was down to 60 million this year.
[07:48] aki
    How much could you even get paid in total
    for three years at age 39?
[07:54] aki
    100 million?
[07:56] bon
    Nah, 60 million for three years, I bet.
[07:59] aki
    Three years for 60 million?
[08:01] aki
    So he'd be splitting his one-year
    salary up over three years?
[08:06] bon
    Sounds like it.
[08:07] aki
    20 million a year for three years...
[08:10] aki
    That's awfully low.
[08:12] aki
    But there'll be performance-related bonuses,
[08:15] aki
    so it'll add up to a lot more overall,
    or at least that's what I think.
[08:19] aki
    Still, it's an impossible demand.
[08:22] aki
    Although I admire his determination
    to stay in the game.
[08:26] bon
    He's been doing it twenty years, after all.
[08:28] bon
    He's working at a level we can't even imagine.
[08:32] bon
    Speak of the devil.
[08:34] bon
    It's Kawasaki-san!
[08:36] ---
    Huh?
[08:37] aki
    Hey!
[08:38] aki
    'Sup!
[08:39] kawa
    Hey, there.
[08:40] kawa
    Want to run together?
[08:42] both
    Yeah!
[08:44] aki
    This guy's got real stamina for his age.
[08:48] aki
    His physical abilities haven't dropped at all.
[08:54] aki
    And he's genuinely just strong.
[08:57] aki
    I'm no match for this old guy.
[09:04] aki
    And his body is unbelievably limber.
[09:07] aki
    He's got me and Natsunosuke outclassed.
[09:10] aki
    I guess that's how you win 150 games.
    Truly amazing.
[09:15] kaw
    Listen... I want to win 200 games.
[09:19] aki
    I didn't know he had that goal.
[09:23] kawa
    If I play to age 45, I can make it to 200.
[09:25] aki
    So he wants to play seven more years?
[09:29] kawa
    You read the newspaper, too, right?
[09:32] kawa
    I bet you saw my demand for a multi-year
    contract and thought I'd gone crazy.
[09:37] aki
    No, not at all!
[09:40] aki
    Knowing you're aiming for 200 explains it.
[09:43] kawa
    Anyway, I need a guaranteed
    three more years in the pros,
[09:47] kawa
    and then I'll take it one year at a time.
[09:50] aki
    Even if that three-year contract goes
    through, to get those last 50 wins,
[09:55] aki
    he'll have a quota of seven
    or eight wins per year.
[09:57] bon
    That's going to be a tall order at his age...
[10:01] bon
    Looking at your body,
    I feel like you might just do it.
[10:06] aki
    Natsunosuke...
[10:08] bon
    I bet by the time you retire at 45,
[10:11] bon
    you'll be back up to a 100 million contract.
[10:15] kawa
    Natsunosuke, this old man will
    take that as his future motivation.
[10:23] bon
    And then, during Kawasaki-san's
    second round of negotiations...
[10:29] man
    You can keep insisting, but a
    multi-year contract is a no-go.
[10:33] man
    Take this one-year deal and do well,
    and there'll be another one waiting.
[10:37] kawa
    I have a dream.
[10:40] kawa
    I'll go through this dance
    as many times as it takes.
[10:44] man
    All right.
[10:46] man
    Then here's what we'll do.
[10:48] man
    We'll add 10 million to our offer.
[10:51] man
    That's 60 plus 10, 70 million.
[10:54] man
    You'll accept that, won't you?
[10:56] man
    The multi-year is impossible.
[10:58] man
    GM!
[10:59] man
    Look, it's all right.
[11:00] man
    I'm making this call.
SIGN    He Caved! Single-year contract signed
SIGN    Doyo Sports Kawasaki re-signs for 70 mil
[11:04] aki
    Kawasaki-san was so adamant,
    but in the end, he folded.
[11:08] bon
    Actually, I wonder if this
    was his plan from the start.
[11:13] bon
    He hasn't stayed in the pros
    twenty years for nothing.
[11:16] bon
    His record was the same as yours:
    three wins, four losses.
[11:19] aki
    Yet I got a million yen added,
    while he got 10 million...
[11:24] bon
    Is he really chasing 200 wins?
[11:28] bon
    Did he really want a multi-year contract?
[11:34] bon
    Who's the real sly old fox?
[11:38] bon
    Only Kawasaki-san knows the truth.
[11:43] aki
    By the way, you've got your
    talks tomorrow, right?
[11:46] aki
    Try to guess your own contract!
[11:50] bon
    That's the hardest of all.
[11:53] bon
    Though I can guess what the club
    will offer me from past experience...
[12:08] yuki
    Here you go!
SIGN    Kitchen Ajihei
[12:10] yuki
    Thank you for coming!
[12:12] yuki
    Check for table two, please!
[12:16] bon
    Yuki-chan...
[12:17] bon
    She's as radiant as ever!
[12:19] yuki
    Here you go!
[12:20] yuki
    Fried chicken 'n' rice!
[12:23] bon
    Here we go!
[12:26] bon
    Delicious!
[12:28] bon
    My season at twenty-six.
[12:31] bon
    18 million yen per year.
[12:33] bon
    Heading toward contract negotiations,
[12:35] bon
    a player analyzes his own
    accomplishments and contributions,
[12:37] man
    Hey, isn't that Bonda of the Spiders?
[12:38] bon
    and presents the number he's hoping for.
[12:40] man
    Bonda?
[12:41] bon
    Of course, the player and club may value
    those contributions very differently.
[12:47] man
    Hey.
[12:49] man
    Are you Bonda-san, from the Spiders?
[12:52] man
    I knew it.
[12:53] man
    I'm a huge fan of the Spiders.
[12:56] man
    I'm sorry to interrupt your meal,
    but I'd love to shake your hand.
[13:00] bon
    S-Sure...
[13:02] bon
    I hope you get us to the Japan Series
    and make us best in Japan next year.
[13:07] bon
    Can I have one, too?
[13:10] bon
    Sure.
[13:11] man
    Um, excuse us.
[13:14] man
    Can we also...?
[13:19] man
    Excuse me, Bonda-san.
[13:21] man
    Sorry, I only have a work
    notepad on me right now, but...
[13:24] man
    Could I have your autograph?
[13:25] bon
    Sure.
SIGN    Jingu Spiders 39 Bonda Natsunosuke
[13:31] bon
    Here.
[13:32] man
    Thank you very much.
[13:34] man
    I'd love one, too.
    Sorry it's just a notepad again.
[13:37] man
    He's giving out autographs.
[13:39] oka
    Who is that?
[13:40] man
    Bonda of the Spiders.
[13:42] man
    Oh, the southpaw middle reliever.
[13:45] bon
    Contributing to the league pennant
[13:47] bon
    must have increased my name
    recognition a little bit.
[13:50] bon
    Even though somewhere in my heart,
[13:52] bon
    I was sure that this was one
    place I'd never been recognized.
[13:56] oka
    They say he's a pro baseball player!
[13:58] yu
    A pro baseball player?
[13:59] oka
    Let's see, an autograph card...
[14:01] yuki
    He is?
[14:05] oka
    Yuki-chan, could you get us his autograph?
[14:09] yuki
    Who is he again?
[14:11] oka
    Um, B-Bonda?
[14:14] oka
    Bonda from the Spiders.
[14:16] yuki
    Sure thing.
[14:19] yuki
    Bonda-san? I feel like I've
    heard that name before...
[14:25] yuki
    Excuse me.
[14:28] yuki
    Sorry. Could we get your
    autograph for the shop?
[14:32] yuki
    You can make it out to Kitchen Ajihei...
[14:37] bon
    R-Right...
[14:56] bon
    I remember!
[14:58] (Flashback) fb
    I'm sorry.
[15:00] (Flashback) fb
    I'm such a huge Tempters fan!
[15:03] (Flashback) fb
    Bonda-san is the one that
    sent us to the Japan Series,
[15:07] (Flashback) fb
    so I just got so happy!
[15:12] yuki
    Mr. Tutankhamen?
[15:15] bon
    Yes...
[15:17] bon
    I was Tutankhamen.
[15:19] yu
    I-I was at the Spiders' fan appreciation day,
[15:23] yu
    and I said something really awful to you...
[15:26] yu
    I-I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[15:28] yuki
    I'm sorry!
[15:28] oka
    Yuki-chan?
[15:30] yuki
    Y-You remember me?
[15:33] bon
    O-Of course I do!
[15:37] bon
    Really, don't worry about it!
[15:39] bon
    Here you are...
SIGN    To Kitchen Ajihei Bonda Natsunosuke Jingu Spiders 39
[15:42] yuki
    Thank you very much.
[15:45] oka
    Did our Yuki-chan do something to offend you?
[15:49] bon
    No, no, not at all.
[15:51] oka
    Yuki-chan, what's the matter?
[15:54] yuki
    Actually... You see...
[15:57] oka
    You did that?
[15:59] ---
    Then...
[16:00] oka
    Here, an apology for
    our Yuki-chan's rudeness.
[16:05] oka
    Go on, Yuki-chan. Pour for him.
[16:09] yuki
    R-Right.
[16:10] yuki
    H-Here you are.
[16:12] bon
    Y-Yeah... Thank you.
[16:22] oka
    Yuki-chan!
[16:24] oka
    Give him this to eat with it!
[16:26] yuki
    S-Sure!
[16:28] yuki
    Th-This is on the house, too!
[16:31] oka
    Hey, Yuki-chan!
[16:33] oka
    You sit there and pour for him a while.
[16:37] yuki
    Ma'am...
[16:38] oka
    Forget work. Come on, please do this.
[16:42] yuki
    Here.
[16:44] bon
    I wasn't mentally prepared
    for this sudden encounter.
[16:47] bon
    I can't seem to say anything!
[16:50] oka
    Pro baseball players make
    a lot of money, right?
[16:54] oka
    How much do you think Bonda-san makes?
[16:56] chef
    Don't know.
[16:58] man
    I don't think he made it
    to 20 million this year.
[17:01] man
    Oh, really?
[17:03] man
    Says 18 million here.
[17:05] man
    What? 18 million?
[17:07] man
    18 million, huh?
[17:09] oka
    18 million?!
[17:10] oka
    He's rich!
[17:14] man
    But for a pro baseball player,
    that's not much.
[17:16] oka
    What? At 18 million?
[17:19] oka
    Then how much do pro baseball
    players usually make?
[17:23] man
    Depends on the player.
[17:24] man
    Some make hundreds of millions,
    and some just make a few.
[17:27] oka
    Then is a player making
    18 million in the baseball world...
[17:30] oka
    High? Middling? Low?
[17:33] man
    Can't say, but for the majors,
    it's on the lower side.
[17:37] oka
    Low?!
[17:38] bon
    Sure, I might be low right now.
[17:42] bon
    I only make 18 million.
[17:44] bon
    But one day, I'll be on the high end!
[17:47] bon
    And my first step to see that day come...
[17:49] yuki
    Bonda-san.
[17:51] yuki
    Here.
[17:52] bon
    R-Right.
[17:55] yuki
    Please do your best.
[17:59] bon
    Right!
[18:00] bon
    I'll do my best tomorrow!
[18:03] bon
    Nothing, just a personal matter.
[18:14] bon
    This season was my best one
    since joining the pros.
[18:20] bon
    I feel like I contributed to us
    winning the league pennant, too.
[18:24] bon
    I'd wager they'll offer me
    a 7 million yen increase.
[18:28] bon
    That's 25 million yen.
[18:32] man
    Bonda-kun,
[18:33] man
    through May, you served us
    well as a middle reliever.
[18:38] man
    You had twenty appearances by then,
[18:40] man
    which was as many as you'd had
    all the previous season.
[18:45] man
    If you'd kept that up, you might've had
    over sixty mound appearances.
[18:49] man
    Sadly, you got hurt just
    before interleague play,
[18:52] man
    and you were out of the game for four months.
[18:56] man
    You returned in September, in the
    middle of a dead heat pennant race
[18:59] man
    between us, the Tempters, and the Mops.
[19:03] man
    Then you appeared in eleven games
    and got seven hold points.
[19:07] man
    Those seven holds definitely
    contributed to our league pennant win.
[19:12] man
    In that stretch, you made eleven appearances
[19:14] man
    and racked up four wins, four losses,
    and two saves at a 3.01 ERA.
[19:18] man
    You also totaled twenty
    hold points for the season.
[19:21] man
    We plugged this data into
    our club's assessment program,
[19:25] man
    and it gave us your next year's contract.
[19:27] bon
    It's definitely going up.
[19:29] bon
    I have eleven appearances and
    ten holds more than last year.
[19:33] bon
    And as the club acknowledges,
    I contributed to the late pennant race
[19:39] bon
    and helped us win it.
[19:42] bon
    24.5 million.
[19:46] bon
    Bonda-kun.
[19:47] bon
    We fully appreciate how hard you worked
    in our late-season pennant race.
[19:54] bon
    The management really trusts you, too.
[19:57] bon
    But that injury was unfortunate.
[20:00] bon
    Of course, you were injured during
    a game, so we won't detract for that,
[20:05] bon
    but as you spent four months
    out of the majors,
[20:07] bon
    there's a limit to how much
    we can add on for you.
[20:11] bon
    If you hadn't been injured,
    you might have reached 40 million.
[20:17] bon
    Well, we're counting on you next season, too.
[20:19] bon
    Do your best.
[20:21] man
    No, wait a minute.
[20:24] man
    That 500 grand is too awkward.
[20:26] man
    I'm making the call to add on another 500.
[20:31] man
    Let's go with 25 million.
[20:33] man
    G-GM!
[20:34] man
    Are you sure?
[20:35] man
    Yeah, I am.
[20:37] man
    Bonda-kun clearly contributed to our win.
[20:40] man
    Bonda-kun, please do your
    best at 25 million next year.
[20:45] bon
    As I thought, they added
    on that extra 500,000.
[20:47] bon
    As I predicted, they were planning
    to offer me 25 million all along.
[20:51] bon
    But if I compromise here, I lose.
[20:54] bon
    Excuse me. Could I make an appeal?
[20:59] man
    You're appealing the offer?
[21:00] man
    You're not satisfied with 25 million? Then...
[21:04] man
    How much do you want?
[21:06] bon
    I want another million.
[21:09] bon
    26 million!
[21:10] both
    26 million?!
[21:13] both
    There's no way. Don't be ridiculous.
[21:15] both
    This is the best we can offer!
[21:17] both
    We won't go one yen higher!
[21:20] bon
    But...
[21:21] bon
    After you hear my argument,
[21:23] bon
    I think you'll be obliged to
    give me that extra million.
[21:27] man
    Bonda-kun?!
[23:01] man
    Natsunosuke here.
[23:02] man
    It's a meager yet precious one million.
[23:05] man
    I really am desperate over this!
[23:07] man
    But the club refuses to accept my appeal.
[23:11] man
    Things are getting cut really close here...
[23:14] man
    That's when some very interesting
    information reaches my ears.
[23:18] man
    Yes, I'll hang in there a little longer!
[23:20] man
    I'm going to get myself an extra million!
[23:23] bon
    Next time: "Contract Renewals, Part Two."
[23:25] bon
    Seize tomorrow's success and today's money!
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[23:27] bon
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