Good bye Blohan!

[Pete]

Tigers are going to pwn the central now.

[Jeremy]

ESPN is reporting that Santana is going to make concessions with the Mets because he really wants to be a met.  They also said that he really wants to hit.  Wont that be a kick in the nuts if he signs with the mets for the same, or less then what the twins offered.

[Pete]

ESPN is reporting that Santana is going to make concessions with the Mets because he really wants to be a met.  They also said that he really wants to hit.  Wont that be a kick in the nuts if he signs with the mets for the same, or less then what the twins offered.

I think that's what it really came down to, he didn't want to be here.  Oh well, enjoy your 25 million a year Santana.  Money grubber.

[Jeremy]

15 minutes left to make a deal or no trade.  Santana wants the 6th year guaranteed since hes willing to take less money per year.

[Pete]

I'd laugh if it fell through.  It won't though.

[Pete]

The buzz in the industry Friday was that Santana's agents, Peter and Ed Greenberg, initially asked for the $28 million per year listed in Roger Clemens' prorated contract with the Yankees last season -- which would have amounted to a six-year, $168 million extension. That amount would not have included either a signing bonus or the $13.25 million Santana is scheduled to earn this season. So his total package would have topped $190 million.

what a joke.  Who the fuck is worth $190 million dollars to play baseball?

[Jeremy]

The buzz in the industry Friday was that Santana's agents, Peter and Ed Greenberg, initially asked for the $28 million per year listed in Roger Clemens' prorated contract with the Yankees last season -- which would have amounted to a six-year, $168 million extension. That amount would not have included either a signing bonus or the $13.25 million Santana is scheduled to earn this season. So his total package would have topped $190 million.

what a joke.  Who the fuck is worth $190 million dollars to play baseball?

The deal is for 7 years, 151 million. 

The Mets locked up Santana for the next seven years, signing him to a six-year, $137.5 million extension on top of the final year of his current deal, which is valued at $13.25 million. The total value of the package is $150.75 million, making his new average salary more than $21.5 million — a record for a pitcher on a long-term contract.

[Pete]

  I love this shit.  He's getting what he deserves.

Pitching for an aging team that choked on its collective stink at the end of last season, Johan Santana found out what it’s like to pitch in New York on Saturday. (Just trying out my New York-tabloid writing style there, folks.)

Johan got booed Saturday after allowing three home runs (sound familiar) in a 5-3 loss to Milwaukee in his first start of Shea Stadium.

And here’s some of what was written:

In the Post:  “The Shea Stadium love affair with Johan Santana sure didn’t last long. Just 6 innings into the ace left-hander’s home debut as a Met today, the faithful booed Santana after watching him give up three no-doubt-about-it home runs in a 5-3 loss to the Brewers.”

Poor lefty.

Also from the Post:  “…ultimately, after seven years of pure adulation in Minnesota while winning two Cy Young awards, Santana appeared shocked and shaken to hear boos from the crowd of 54,701 his first time out at Shea. “I wish we could do everything the way everybody wants, but we’re human beings,” he said. “I know a lot of people are expecting a lot of things from me. If the fans feel that way, they can feel the way they want. We’re not perfect.”  "If they boo, that's fine," Santana said. "That's a history they got from not being so good, I guess."

The old “we’re not perfect” thingee. Johan, buddy, if you can’t do any better than than, you’re gonna be booed as mercilessly (and as stupidly) as Yankee fans have booed A-Rod. For $137 million, the fans and the talk show hosts and the strap-hangers (That’s a term for people who ride the subway to watch you pitch) are expecting you to provide a tickertape parade at the end of this season, not to mention the next one and the next one. No matter that you’re among aging and overpaid teammates and your team’s farm system, ahem, has pretty much been dismembered.

As a commenter posted at the end of the story in the Daily News: “How much are they paying this man?”

And another: “Santana also needs to realize that in N.Y. the fans are what makes you or breaks you, so he does not need to say any sarcastic comments like the one after todays game. That will bite him is the rear end if fans take it the wrong way.”

And finally: “Bill Smith is a genius. Santana is proving that his 2007 numbers are what he is. He might get a few more strikeouts, and he’ll win 15 games, hardly a good investment. NY is not for him, they expect way to much from him, and the fans are impatient, typical east coast consciousness. He pitches to up in the strike zone. Still he’s in the top 10 in the National League , and you really have to work to beat him. Long season for the Mets, management dressed up a turkey, and the fans bought it.”

Even the guy on the Mets page at mlb.com wrote: “Merely mortal, Santana kicked the dirt around the pitcher’s mound and then walked out of Shea Stadium a loser for the first time in his Mets career. Quite a few boos — yes, boos — rained down on Flushing’s new hope, providing an unaccustomed welcome to what once might have been a grand debut. This, for Santana, did not feel like home.”

One more thing, Johan. When you got traded, Ms. Baseball was pretty bummed out and she wasn’t quite herself for a spell. But she watched Boof and the relievers shut down the Royals tonight after Senor Smoke Free did the same to the Royals on Friday and guess what? She’s pretty much over you.

[Jeremy]

I love this shit.  He's getting what he deserves.

Pitching for an aging team that choked on its collective stink at the end of last season, Johan Santana found out what it’s like to pitch in New York on Saturday. (Just trying out my New York-tabloid writing style there, folks.)

Johan got booed Saturday after allowing three home runs (sound familiar) in a 5-3 loss to Milwaukee in his first start of Shea Stadium.

And here’s some of what was written:

In the Post:  “The Shea Stadium love affair with Johan Santana sure didn’t last long. Just 6 innings into the ace left-hander’s home debut as a Met today, the faithful booed Santana after watching him give up three no-doubt-about-it home runs in a 5-3 loss to the Brewers.”

Poor lefty.

Also from the Post:  “…ultimately, after seven years of pure adulation in Minnesota while winning two Cy Young awards, Santana appeared shocked and shaken to hear boos from the crowd of 54,701 his first time out at Shea. “I wish we could do everything the way everybody wants, but we’re human beings,” he said. “I know a lot of people are expecting a lot of things from me. If the fans feel that way, they can feel the way they want. We’re not perfect.”  "If they boo, that's fine," Santana said. "That's a history they got from not being so good, I guess."

The old “we’re not perfect” thingee. Johan, buddy, if you can’t do any better than than, you’re gonna be booed as mercilessly (and as stupidly) as Yankee fans have booed A-Rod. For $137 million, the fans and the talk show hosts and the strap-hangers (That’s a term for people who ride the subway to watch you pitch) are expecting you to provide a tickertape parade at the end of this season, not to mention the next one and the next one. No matter that you’re among aging and overpaid teammates and your team’s farm system, ahem, has pretty much been dismembered.

As a commenter posted at the end of the story in the Daily News: “How much are they paying this man?”

And another: “Santana also needs to realize that in N.Y. the fans are what makes you or breaks you, so he does not need to say any sarcastic comments like the one after todays game. That will bite him is the rear end if fans take it the wrong way.”

And finally: “Bill Smith is a genius. Santana is proving that his 2007 numbers are what he is. He might get a few more strikeouts, and he’ll win 15 games, hardly a good investment. NY is not for him, they expect way to much from him, and the fans are impatient, typical east coast consciousness. He pitches to up in the strike zone. Still he’s in the top 10 in the National League , and you really have to work to beat him. Long season for the Mets, management dressed up a turkey, and the fans bought it.”

Even the guy on the Mets page at mlb.com wrote: “Merely mortal, Santana kicked the dirt around the pitcher’s mound and then walked out of Shea Stadium a loser for the first time in his Mets career. Quite a few boos — yes, boos — rained down on Flushing’s new hope, providing an unaccustomed welcome to what once might have been a grand debut. This, for Santana, did not feel like home.”

One more thing, Johan. When you got traded, Ms. Baseball was pretty bummed out and she wasn’t quite herself for a spell. But she watched Boof and the relievers shut down the Royals tonight after Senor Smoke Free did the same to the Royals on Friday and guess what? She’s pretty much over you.

I think athletes should be paid on an incentive based scale.  You win, you get more.  You suck, you dont.  Thatll stop the 150 million dollar contracts.