Comments on: Cliff Lee’s agent responds to Nolan Ryan: “That’s not the way the process works”

By: baseballholmes1

baseballholmes1 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:38:34 +0000

Sounds like Lee is using Jerry Maguire. If you know what the Yankees are offering, just add a couple of million.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:54:24 +0000

Buy a bigger share of an A-380 and travel in style. They might even let you put steer horns on its radome.

By: slam922

slam922 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:03:56 +0000

At some point you have to ask yourself “How much is enough?”. How much can you spend? How many toys can you buy? $140 million or $150 million…..does it really make any difference? Why would a 7th year make any difference? What will you be able to do with $150 million that you can’t do with $140 million? I don’t get it.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:46:10 +0000

That’s not thinking. That’s prayer.

By: ta192

ta192 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:29:41 +0000

Is it just me, or is it possible that there’s one or more GM’s thinking, “By year 6 of his contract, this guy’ll be a permanent resident of the DL, and we can just palm his salary off on the insurance weenies.”

By: ta192

ta192 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:22:55 +0000

An agent sassing Nolan Ryan…won’t he just adjust on his eye patch and put the reins in his teeth, and…
Whoops, wrong guy…

By: ultimatecardinalwarrior

ultimatecardinalwarrior — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:50 +0000

Or anything close to the LeBronathon that happened. Baseball’s offseason is just a few people getting paid ungodly amounts of money.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:39:32 +0000

GW: Are you alright Nolan??
Nolan: Huh? whaaa…
GW: Damn Nolan, I though you said you smoked weed before
Nolan: Huh? uhh yeah… where are we?
GW: High as hell is where we are boyeee…. I done grew that on my ranch man, it’s some serious hydro from north of the border. I like to call it “stanky hanky panky” cause it’s as good as sex and smells like a christmas tree.
Nolan: who are you mannnn?
GW: Well my daddy says I’m a worthless pain in the a$$, but I go by George mostly.
Nolan: I need a beer…

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:33:13 +0000

Don’t weep for Nolie’s finances. He has an empire, with his brand of beef (seriously!) and car dealerships etc all throughout texas. Plus, the guy has probably not paid for a meal in a restaurant in 30 years.

By: ravensos

ravensos — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:27:50 +0000

It’s got to be frustrating for a guy like Nolan Ryan to see what Lee and other pitchers command monetarily these days.

By: Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward

Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:18:18 +0000

It’s this way every couple years. No reason to hate baseball for it. At least you don’t have contract “hold outs”, “franchise players”, salary caps, etc. to deal with like they do in football.

By: phillygirl4

phillygirl4 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:08:52 +0000

this entire offseason is making me hate baseball

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:27:50 +0000

Great Picture.

When you’re negotiating it never hurts to ask. The worst that will happen is they’ll say no, or “it doesn’t work that way”

We know one thing. Cliff Lee will get paid.