1,193,248 a year over 24 years compared to 5.9M in a lump sump 11 years earlier sounds like an absurd proposition. It's actually even better than that for BB.
By my rough calculations, 2% inflation taken into consideration, BB earns about 39M more over the duration and pays less in taxes because he spreads the income over 24 years, not to mention the federal tax brackets were more onerous in 1999. And not to mention it's as if his income is tied to a spendthrift clause. He can't go out and blow it all at once. He gets it in a 1.19M annual income stream.
I think I could live off that
Amazin' financial planning Mets.