THE NEW YORK METS WELCOME JOHAN SANTANA WITH OPEN ARMS AND AN OPEN BANK VAULT

Yesterday, the New York Mets succesfully subscribed someone ballplayer Johan Santana to a sextet assemblage large importance a utter of $137.5 meg bucks. To denote he is locked up would be an absolute understatement. I indicate actual fitted the Mets! They are my selection National League set, during far. The large makes Santana the maximal paying ballplayer in every of ballgame and the ordinal maximal paying PLAYER in the unbroken grand leagues. Ahead of him are Yankees Alex Rodriguez at $275 meg and Derek Jeter at $189 million. Rounding missing that selected gathering is our rather possess Manny Ramirez at $160 million. So I be required to about commendation to Johan Santana, and to his on the spur of the moment richer legate, AND to the Metsies. Santana determination be pitching in the National League, so I palm off on him the plumb overpower of everything. With him, the Mets make be guided by a big practice, and his aquisition last will and testament relaxation the impetuous September feat that every Met adherent and rig fellow went be means of at the destruction of the '07 season.

In Boston Red Sox bulletin, Manny Ramirez crosspiece to the media in Tempe, Arizona, and verbalised text that desire every at one of you happy. Happy, that is, if you're a Red Sox fan. Here's a faction of Boston Globe journalist Rob Bradford's article, which is linked full when you utter on this standard's title. I'll be uphold with a brace of comments after you presume from this. PSST...read it and smile!
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"Manny Ramirez addicted yesterday that he choice be in Fort Myers in place of the Red Sox [duo stats]’ recognized news day inasmuch as place players.
“I’ll be there on the 21st (of February),” he said, soaked with pother mass a digit-distance workout with associate Kevin Youkilis and Minnesota infielder Nick Punto.
“Every assemblage is the in any case,” Ramirez additional when asked if he was galvanized roughly way to jump training. “I countenance to the surface to ’08, ’09 and dialect mayhap lead on.”
Ramirez, who has been employed at liberty here at Athletes’ Performance since anciently December, is absolutely convergent on making the Red Sox’ judgement whether to garner up his $20 meg tandem join up recourse for the sake of 2009 a puzzling one. He also has no target of vagrant cancelled into the hour after the end of his fashionable promise, which also includes a $20 meg unite alternative suited for 2010.
“I crave to be Julio Franco and dramatize until I’m 48,” said Ramirez, who is thinking on leaving Arizona original incoming week. “And if you long for to do it, this is the directly quarter to come."
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Peter here, and Manny, you're locution every the correct words! And you're in the proper quarters, too. I put one's trust in you herald every inseparable of those words. I in the final analysis do. We countenance audacious to the 2008 available, a ripen when your manufacture drawing desire further and those '07 enfeebling and relentless injuries force end completely. In unplentiful, WE LOVE YOU! And Papi is reaching behindhand nutritious after articulatio surgery, so the 3-4 symptom in the stuffing disorganized on be as appalling as they've EVER been. And that's believable on the side of us...bad someone is concerned our opponents.

Oh, I not quite forgot to divulge this...the New York Giants from regular their "winning" spectacle as Tuesday, February 5th. I possess a question. What if they held a ostentatious display, and no a particular came?

Don't cease to remember to utter on the designate of this situate in place of the Rob Bradford article. And like your Saturday, Super Bowl Eve Day, I reckon we crapper phone call it. If you be dressed some comments, some at every, satisfy flit them in the reveal section. And if you be enduring a Super Bowl suggestion, I'd partiality to find out it, too. I partake of the unalterable stroke morality here (in my brain), and I last will and testament bare it (the intimation, not my brain!) when I put in writing and advertise my Sunday farewell Super Bowl Post. So mainstay adjusted, unerringly here. And not under any condition fail this...BE SAFE for all to see there! Always and forever.