All this talk about Alex Rodriguez these days reminded me of one of the more quirky and fun online projects I once helped develop. (OK, it was my wife who reminded me about this.)
The Pay-Rod Meter, which we built on The Herald’s web site in Everett in 2003, shortly after Rodriguez signed his historic contract with the Texas Rangers and ditched our hometown Seattle Mariners.
I received a lot of credit for coming up with the idea, but the site was designed and developed by Doug Parry, who still works at The Herald leading their design efforts in print and online. We got call calls and emails from all over the country after we launched it.
The site is no longer live, of course, and even if were, it would have to be updated with Rogriguez’s Yankees contract figures. And maybe there is a way to calculate dollars-earned-per-banned-substance-consumed?
The Pay-Roid Meter?
Mark Briggs 
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