After signing a $55 million death wish to his career, Gil Meche has decided to throw a little weight around the Kansas City Royals’ locker room. Meche decided to do some negotating with his new teammate Joe Nelson. Why would the godlike Meche negotate with someone far inferior to him? Because Nelson was wearing Meche’s #55.
Meche has had to buy Nelson a couple of suits, a set of golf clubs and “all kinds of other junk,” as Meche put it.
Usually, these kinds of things are negotiated with money. But Gil Meche doesn’t see it like that. Why should he hand over his money? This is money he earned by amassing that 4.48 ERA. He’s going to do what he wants, we’re going to have to learn to deal with it. It’s obvious Joe Nelson isn’t worthy to wear the number. He had no choice but to give it up. He should have done it for free, seeing as how Meche is there to resurrect a horrible franchise.
When I read what Meche had to pawn off to kit his Double Cinco back, I had no choice but to make a movie connection. Doesn’t Meche’s explanation sound a bit like Lloyd’s from Dumb and Dumber? As a way of earning $25 bucks, Lloyd sold “a few baseball cards, a sack of marbles, [and] Petey”. Maybe that’s the other junk that Meche was describing.
What’s funny about this is Nelson wanting golf clubs. Nelson is in need of surgery because of a torn labrum in his shoulder. This bastard is no condition to get in a late nine holes near the Royals’ Spring Training facility. After some bartering, Meche has his number. When his ERA explodes to 6 in April, at least we won’t be mistaking him for Jeff Nelson.
