No. His agent and the IRS get a healthy chunk, leaving him with, by my calculations, ~$89,700/yr average to live off of. I'll get a scan of the envelope back posted here later...

My Creighton friend now owes me 2 drinks.

I'll say yes. I'd love to be Greenberg. Couple the Mets collapse with the media consensus that they pwnzor'd!!!1 Bill Smith, if they let the deal fall through for anything short of a truly insane contract demand, there will be riots in Queens.

Rotoworld is indictating that the Mets and the Moo Cow (see Katy's story) are negotiating on a 6th year and that it may become a performance option year. If Santana is willing to sign with a preformance option I'll be very sad. More directly, it will be clear that he had NO interest in being a Twin.

Hope my avatar worked. I took me, like, two hours to figure out how to make it work. I was a wizard at programming in basic--and the video game Tron. I've gone downhill a bit since.

My avatar would like to get paid in the 2007 market for starting pitchers.

Interested teams can make their checks out to me.

The Twins have continued to state that they plan on a budget of 50-52% of revenue for their payroll. Based on losing Hunter and Santana, I'm sure they are well under 50% of projected 2008 revenue. I hope they actually stay low on payroll and admit they have to stick with the youngsters this year to peak in 2010. I'd also like it if they took that extra $10 million and put it in a CD that matures in 2010 to load up on payroll that year. Maybe go to 54% for a year or two!

I know it won't happen that way but a guy can dream, right?

The US MNT unveiled new jerseys today. I can't say I like them at all.

BrianS - The IPA was a splendid pairing for the Jambalaya. I made a few tactical errors in the preparation method, per the Cook's Illustrated recipe. The net result was a slightly longer cook time, but the results were solid. I served the jambalaya with a corn muffin recipe which was quite interesting.

When preparing the wet liquid portion, you beat two eggs for 30 seconds, and then added a stick of melted butter, in three pours, with a brisk whisking after each pour. Then you added 1/2 cup milk and 3/4 cup sour cream, one half of each ingredient at at a time (.25 cup of milk and .375 cup of sour cream) again, with a brisk whisking, followed by gently folding it into the dry ingredients until just combined. The consistency of the finished product was excellent. They were not too crumbly and the sour cream gave them a kind of velvety texture.

Does Johan get $150 million?

I kind of think he can, though it sort of depends on how much of a badass Peter Greenberg is. Are the Mets really willing to come this close to getting Santana and then lose him over $10-20M? I lean towards 'no'.

BP posts their Top 100 Prospects. Gomez is the first Twin at #65.

I thought this was pretty good, even though it isn't applicable (refers to a Santana for Ellsbury trade with the Sox)

Santana Man
(with apologies to Billy Joel)

It's six o'clock on a game day,
The regular crowd tramples in.
There's a pink hat sitting next to me
Oggling Bosox and looking for skin.

She says, "Where is my homeboy Jacoby?
"I think that he is so hot."
And I say "Yesterday he was traded away
So now Coco is back in his spot."

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da.

Win us a Cy, you're Santana, man.
Win us a Cy this year.
`Cause we all were so very in love with Ellsbury
We're wishing that he was still here.

Now Santana is throwing a warm-up pitch -
96 miles per hour at the knees.
And he knows that it's he, that we're coming to see,
To forget about lost Tacobies.

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da.

Now Francona's a cud-chewing manager
Who's often too late with the hook;
And he's talking with Manny, who went to the canny
In a special Green Monster nook.

And Curt Schilling is practicing politics,
While the bullpen keeps drumming away;
As they're looking to score, add some runs to the board,
Coco hits into a double play.

Win us a Cy, you're Santana, man.
Win us a Cy this year.
`Cause we all were so very in love with Ellsbury
We're wishing that he was still here.

According to Jayson Stark

Sources: Mets likely won't reach deal with Santana until Friday, if at all:

The sources also left open the possibility that the talks could collapse without an agreement, though the odds of that appear remote.

So true.

“A man isn’t inclined to eat as much if his wife or girlfriend is watching,” Rob Nightingale explained. “After their 15th or 18th slice, she kind of gives him the look and makes him stop.”