Lerner KO's Patterson in Arbitration Slugfest!

 

One million reasons why Big John never stood a chance.

NAAATs win arbitration hearing against The Reputed Ace. He wanted $1.85 million; he'll get $850k in 2007.

Now, let's see him go out and make it through a long toss session or two and see if that Ace label sticks...

The Chief to step into the ring next week, looking for a big raise and/or a long-term deal...

(Photo of Butterbean via SI.com, Lerner via AP; we apologize for our terrible Photoshop skills)

Comments

[SomeGuy]

That picture is photoshopped????

I swore lerner fought in the heavyweight division at one point, I guess I was wrong...

[The Nationals Enquirer]

Well, to tell you the truth, it's not even Photoshop -- there's some free photo editing software called Serif PhotoPlus that I got off the web somewhere that I used. It's sorta like referring to any DVR at "Tivo" or a photocopier as a "Xerox".

But the point is, I should be embarrassed, really. It looks terrible. But I couldn't pass up the chance to put Ted Lerner's head on Butterbean's body...