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If there is a Baseball God, Cliff Lee returns to Texas and the Yankees sit and watch Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and the best pitcher on the market go elsewhere.

I don’t know Lee, but I hope he’s enough of a smalltown guy to ignore the seventh year of the Yankee contract and stick with the Rangers. It’s actually funny—this whole sixth-or-seventh-year thing. When I signed my last book contract, I actually had two competing deals. One was a single-book deal with more money up front, the other a two-book deal with slightly more total dough, but less per project. I wound up going with the single-book scenario, but only after losing a whole lot of sleep. I debated publishing quality, length I would have for each product, finances, finances, finances.

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