batbreakinglygood: According to Bill Madden, Derek Jeter wants - you better be sitting, this will fucking boggle you - SIX YEARS, AND A HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. That's right. 6Y/150M.
It is 5:30 AM and I am hungover as shit and I could not stop laughing. Can I hear your classic oldtimefamilybaseball view on this? Certainly you have some amazing things to say on this. Because it is absolutely fucking absurd. It makes Javy Vazquez and Hisashi Iwakuma look totally reasonable.
The only way I can see Derek Jeter legitimately ask for that kind of money is if it was done while he was sitting on Santa’s lap while he was Christmas shopping in the local mall. That’s the only way such a ridiculously out of this world number could be asked for with a straight face. The Yankees would be out of their minds to offer $25 million a year and they would be crazy to offer six years regardless of the cash being paid out.
Naturally, word from the Jeter camp is that the original report was incorrect, but that may have a lot to do with PR and less to do with Jeter’s original asking price. Jeter is probably not looking for $150 million anymore, but only because his agent was probably laughed out of every meeting.
I didn’t count on Jeter signing quickly, but no one had any idea how insane things would get; Hank Steinbrenner’s come out of hiding, Derek Jeter is asking for an island off the coast of Latveria— things are getting crazy to say the least.
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