At first glance, it sure doesn't seem right that Roger Clemens can come back and pitch for four months and make more than most of us and our spouse and our parents and our cousins and our second cousins and our neighbors all put together will make in a lifetime. It just doesn't seem right.

The "Rocket" will make about 18 and a half million for his fourth month part time job this summer with the Yankees. And when the "stress" of pitching every fifth day sets in he can always pack up as he chooses and fly home to Texas to see his family. For working America, and even poor old guys like Jason Giambi, who have to earn their money over a full season it just doesn't seem right. But this is America where capitalism rules. And Roger Clemens is simply cashing in on the leverage he has built up over 23 seasons and 7 CY Young Awards of perhaps the best pitching ever. Is that right? Sure it is. He has earned it.

I truly believe that any of us are worth what someone is willing to pay us. Did any of you sell your house for far more than you ever could have imagined in the last 10 years? Of course. Was it right? Sure it was. We live in a free market system. We can envy Roger Clemens. We can question the Yankees. But the system works. None of the Yankee players today seemed to care that Clemens was getting the special treatment. Giambi even joked he'd carry Clemens bags.

How much money does a Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks or Will Farrell command in the movie business? Is is fair that it far exceeds some of their peers who may be more talented? Perhaps. But those actors, to name a few, have built up a reputation that commands and demands top dollar. If you stop going to their movies, their agents will no longer to bring in those enormous contracts. The free market usually gets it right.

This may finally be it for the "Rocket" who turns 45 in August. To me, he's the greatest pitcher ever. That's why I will drive 2 hours to the Bronx this summer with my son and drop at least 200 bucks to see Clemens pitch and not think twice about it. But I wouldn't get in my car for anybody. I shop at Walmart. But when it comes to making the push to see the Yankees over my beloved Mets, I want buy a "Rocket" not a Rasner. And that's why the Yankees move makes sense to me.