I'm the fourth-best creative writer in my Intro to English Composition course

Does that mean that I'm worth $200 million?



http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/12/mark-teixeira-6.html



Let's all just stop here for a second. Mark Teixeira is not the best first baseman in the MLB (Albert Pujols is). He is not the second-best first baseman in the MLB (Lance Berkman is). He is not the third-best first baseman in the MLB (Ryan Howard is). And yet he's apparently ready to turn down a farking $180 million contract even though he's probably worth like half that. He's going to make $7 million more than Albert Pujols in 2009 even though he's a substantially inferior player. Who also has an infuriatingly hard last name to spell.



Say what you want about Scott Boras, but at least he treats his clients well (unlike, say, Rafael Furcal's agent, who cost his best client about $20 million this offseason and should be posting his resume on Monster.com any day now). Jarrod freaking Washburn is going to get a $95 million contract next offseason--from Ned Colletti, of course.