Verlander's $3,000 chocolate milk

From AOL's The Fanhouse blog:

"I wanted a chocolate milk that cost 50 cents, and I didn't have the money," Verlander, 24, told Sports Illustrated. "So I said, 'How about I give you 0.1 percent of my pro signing bonus if you give me 50 cents now?' He found a napkin, wrote it up, and I signed it.

"I forgot about it, but after I signed [with the Tigers], he comes over and whips out this old napkin. I'm like, oh my God! My bonus was 3-point-something million.

"Was a chocolate milk worth $3,000? I want to say yes. I was parched."

 

That was in SI a few weeks ago.

 

This is pretty good chocolate milk. I don't know if it's worth $3,000, but it's pretty good chocolate milk.

 

And in other news, they say this guy Leyland won't amount to much as a catcher but still could have a future in baseball

 

I heard Koufax is throwing a perfect game. Did I just jinx it?

 

I heard that this kid out of Baltimore, George Herman Somethingorother, is a pretty good ballplayer. Southpaw that can pitch pretty good. Also knows what to do with a bat, too.

 

I think the increase in home runs by individual players might be caused by outside drug use.

Anyone want to follow up on that thought?

 

I had never read that story before.

 

Sidd Finch rules! He's a Hall of Famer for sure!

 

I'm having trouble while working on a feature about some guy named Doubleday.
Anyone know if he has a Myspace page?