The Arkansas Traveler

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has traveled to Arkansas to meet with free-agent pitcher Cliff Lee. Cashman was invited Tuesday by Lee's agent, Darek Brauneker, to meet with the 32-year-old left-hander and his wife, a person familiar with the arrangements told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Yankees and Lee didn't make any announcements. 

Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas,
A lefty rich and getting richer sat by his mansion door
He was waiting for a travelin dork with bucks to spare
A fellow from New York that he'll play to scare
The fellow arrived breathing hard, but the lefty didn't care,
There'd always be others like him, the type not rare,
For sure lefty would land a hefty windfall
Nothing could ever bother that man at all

The New Yorker would bring a big check that day,
He'd also try to sweep Mrs. Lefty's hardened heart away;
Scarred from nasty jokes of evil stadium blokes
Depending on the dough would be a safer bet
As the blokers' jokes didn't seem to make lefty fret.
So the dorker said "Now the way it seems to me,
You'd better come east," said he.
But the lefty said as he pitched low and  away,
Not just yet for now, I'll wait for even higher pay."