I know in my head, that the Mets and Johan Santana will come to an agreement if not by today’s 5PM deadline by tomorrow. But my blue and orange heart keeps sending a message to my head “Remember who you are”
Everything in Metsville is so damn difficult. We never make a deal that’s nice and neat there is always angst and heartache. Plenty of angst, in fact if some sabermatician would come with TAI (Team Angst Index) the Mets would be the top team every year.
It looks as if the stumbling block here in the Santana signing is years and guarantees. I think as we have to check our common sense as clear thinking people trying to pay our bills but working a helluva lot more than we should, at the door when it comes to the digits we will see in this contract.
It looks like Team Santana is looking for 6yr/$140 mil at least. It seems the Mets would like to go 5yrs and an option on the 6th that can be reached with easy to achieve incentives. To sweeten the pot a bit the Mets would pay Santana a $7mil signing bonus to add to his $13 mil salary for ’08. I have no inside info or any knowledge of what it will take to make this deal but I bet the hold up here is the guarantee on year 6, the perks such as air plane tickets for family members, use of luxury suite, all the hot dogs the kids can eat and all the legal mumbo jumbo.
I just want the deal done and even then until I see SANTANA 57 shirts in the Mets Clubhouse I won’t be relived.
Posted under Uncategorized
This post was written by kranepool on February 1, 2008
Omar knows he got a steal and he knew from the start that it would cost big bucks to keep him. They are just ironing out the final touches i’m sure. Santana wants to be a Met and I think Minaya and all the way up the chain know how important this signing is. All they have to do is read any blog and find out that Mets fans are beside themselves with happiness and talk about buying more tickets. It will get done. If it doesn’t, then my entire universe will collapse!
Physical Scheduled For TOMORROW
Happy day in Metland. Remember when they came up with the top ten mets moments of all time, and one of them, like number 4 in mets history, was the signing of Mike Piazza? If things go from here as i am thinking they will, THIS is another of those moments.
Late October, 2008, Game One, in freezing Fenway, Beckett vs. Santana, and all of a sudden, 1986 seems only yesterday. How sweet it is!!!!!!