Consider me flummoxed. The Phils signed Lee to a deal worth $115mil over 5 years. It's an awful lot of money per year but at least a reasonable amount of years. This is clearly a decision meant to say to the Yankees loud and clear "FUCK YOU!!!"
Nolan Ryan and the Rangers have to feel like they got absolutely fucked by a runaway freight train right now, losing out to a team that wasn't even a factor 24 hours ago.
Odder still is that Cliff Lee took less money to play for a team that shopped him and shipped him to the baseball equivalent of the apocalypse, the Seattle Mariners. (unrelated, how can Ichiro be happy there?)
Mets fans have to be suicidal, they spent big on underachieving Johan Santana a few years back and have watched their division rivals Phillies amass a killer pitching arsenal, win the division, win a World Series. All the while the Mets are still paying off gems Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran. Another year without October baseball in Queens.
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