Quickest. Deal. Ever.

So some people watched Game 7 and started rejoicing, getting smashed, the usual things. Others saw dollar signs and book deals, as Publishers Marketplace reports:

Jennifer Joel & Sloan Harris’s THE ART OF THE CHOKE: How To Lose 4 Straight & Destroy a Franchise With All The Money In The World, Who’s Your Daddy Now, the true story of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry and a frank account of the unprecedent collapse a once proud & powerful dynasty and the agony it caused a city and its fans, to William “Crow-eater” Thomas at Doubleday, in a major deal (in 1918 dollars), by Esther Newberg and Richard Abate at ICM (Boston).

But wait–what’s this: 1918 dollars? And Jennifer Joel and Sloan Harris appear to be agents for ICM as well? Is Michael Cader trying to make a funny? Please enlighten my poor, only slightly hungover brain….