Sports in 2009

I just cannot understand this. I love sports. Let me be more specific: I enjoy sports because the competition is exhilarating, the hand-eye cordination involved, the teamwork and thrill of accomplishing something as a unit is great. But this I do not understand: Manny Ramirez, a great baseball player, is deciding, at least for now, he does not want to play baseball for $22.5 million dollars per year for the next two years. What is the reason, you ask? Because over $20 million dollars is not enough for him. WTF?