Kilkenny, you see, is the second highest player on the Sox payroll and he's not earning one tenth of this $15M salary. $15.1M actually, but who's counting. And for all that cash, what we have so far in 1996 is a 1-6 record, with a 8.52 ERA and 2.13 WHIP. He's the reason the Sox are at the salary cap, he's the reason we couldn't sign any free agents, he's the reason we lost an SP and IF to get under the cap. He's killin' us.
My assistant GM sent me this rundown of his last ten starts:
I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill Kilkenny.
If I kill him, do I still have to pay his contract? I'm gonna have my accountant look at that. For now, he's gonna sit in the bullpen where he can count his friggin' 15 million dollars.
