So you sign a contract saying you’ll do something for someone, and they’ll pay you $13 million dollars to do it.

That’s $13,000,000.00. Just in case you’re curious how many zeros that is.

Gary Sheffield plays baseball. Very well, in fact. And for doing that, the Yankees are going to pay him 13 mill next season.

And he’s not happy about it. He didn’t want them to pick up his option, because he wanted to be a free agent and get himself a multi-year deal.

What a moron. If he didn’t want it, why did he sign the deal three years ago? Doesn’t a man’s word mean anything anymore?

I’ve agreed to things that later I regretted, but you know what? I did ‘em anyway, because that’s how the world is supposed to work.

I guess I just don’t understand what goes through a guy’s head. I mean, I know that Sheff is thinking he can get a 3 year deal for 15 million a year, and if he’s a free agent next year (and a year older) it’ll be harder to get that kind of money. But he should have thought of that three years ago when he signed his LAST deal.

Sigh.