Paul O'Neill Reveals How Much He Makes In Residuals From His Guest Spot On Seinfeld

A few Big Leaguers made appearances on Seinfeld during the show's run, and one of them was New York Yankees great Paul O'Neill.

O'Neill appeared in the 1995 episode "The Wink" and was in a scene where Kramer is trying to get a birthday card that George intended to give George Steinbrenner back from a kid who is sick in the hospital. The kid says he'll give it back to him if he gets Paul O'Neill to hit two home runs in the Yankees next game.

 Classic.

Anyway, O'Neill has been collecting residuals from that cameo for almost thirty years.

On Friday, fellow former Yankee David Cone made a comment alluding to O'Neill's guest spot on the iconic sitcom and asked if those checks are still coming in.

"Yeah," O’Neill said. "You know what they are? They’re like 57 bucks."

In the immortal words of one Jeff Spicoli: Righteous bucks.

"It’s not big-time. A good reminder, though, that you were on the show, O'Neill said. "It’s kinda cool."

"That’s a glass of wine for you in a nice restaurant," Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay said.

Kay and Cone were cool about it, but part of me wanted them to goof on those $57 checks so O'Neill could snap and say something like, "How much are your Seinfeld residual checks for? Huh? Come on, how much?"

I think it's pretty common knowledge that those residual checks usually aren't too much, but considering O'Neill probably did one day of work almost 29 years ago and still to this day gets the occasional 50-some-odd dollar check is pretty damn cool.

Plus, if you made a guest appearance on Seinfeld back in the day, you've earned some degree of TV immortality, and that's even better than a check in the mail every now and then.