So here's a little lesson in economics for those Red Sox fans who've run the bidding on Manny Ramirez's grill up into five figures.

Cost of Jenn-Air grill: According to Manny, it's roughly $4,000, although we were unable to locate one at Lowe's website for more than two grand, so Manny might have gotten taken. Either that, or his grill has been seriously pimped out. And yes, we would watch a show called Pimp My Grill at least once.

Cost of Manny Ramirez-autographed baseball: Varies, but we found it for as low as $140.

So that brings our total to $4,140, which means that the bidders who were willing to throw down $20K or so for the grill (that is, before some lunatic bid $99,999,999 and got the auction pulled) had calculated that the value added to the grill by Manny using it once was somewhere in the $16,000 range.

That's one seriously expensive burger.

Oh ... and you'd think the guy with the $160 million contract would be willing to throw in shipping for free. But no, that would have run you $70.