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The Mets have been granted an additional two hours to negotiate a contract extension with Johan Santana.
…i have to assume this means that a deal was not actually agreed to by the 5 pm deadline…however, for them to peg down an additional two hours, it would suggest that they’re super close, and just needed some additional time to get it right…
…i have heard from a few different people that santana is in New York City, but not at the negotiations, though i have been unable to confirm that with anyone connected to the team…
ughhhhh…
I don’t think I can take much more! This game of chess is making me dizzy! Anyone have dramamine?
you dont need dramamine, you need alcohol, and plenty of it, bottles and bottles of it
I’m wasted right now afetr leaving work so I could get away
¡Ay CARAMBA!
This is some sick joke.
Fred and Jeff had to run to the Citibank ATM.
What’s another 2 hours of chest pains? come on now
or Scores…
Haha!! I hope you’re right!!
even if we do sign santana, i think my liver will have dissolved by opening day
what’s another 2 hours of chest pains? come on people
You have GOT to be kidding me.
I can’t do this anymore! I need to nap or something to maintain my sanity.
Matt,
How much do you make from ads, per refresh?
He may actually only make money on them through clicks
for the love of god.
Is this good news or bad news?
I mean really, they can’t turn back now.
no problem giving broken down older pedro an extra year but 28 year old best pitcher on the planet, i dont think so buddy.
Hopefully just dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s.
Please just get it done before i climb out on the ledge
Lucky I live on the 2nd floor.
i have no more hair to pull out. i have to start pulling out my fingernails.
In the future, can they make these deals on either a Wednesday or Thursday so I won’t be at work waiting. My Bosses would greatly apprecieate it!
I’m actually not that worried. It was much more tense when dealing with the trade itself. I think this will get done by 7, i have no doubts about it. He better pitch well, the pressure is definitely on.
Just a thought…….. who starts the first game of the year?
If Pedro starts game 1, then Johan’s first start at Shea is opening day. If Johan starts game 1, then Pedro starts the home opener and Johan’s first start at Shea would be Saturday the 12th.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit heroin.
Do you like gladiator movies Billy?
You ever seen a grown man naked?
lol I don’t even like smoking and I need a cigerette so bad any one got one Help!
You ever spend time in a Turkish Prison?
You like films about gladiators?
Whats you vector Victor?
“Negotiate”. The media didn’t think it was suspensful enough.
can’t… stop… refreshing…
PATIENCE EVERYONE…
Fred & Jeff are busy putting their pennies into rolls.
if they blow this im just going to become a fan of whatever team mike piazza signs with.
ha
remember, the league office only grants extensions when a deal is imminent.
I cannot believe this isnt done yet…
its like the mets brass was taken by surprise on what Johan wanted… DIDNT THEY KNOW WHEN THEY DEALT FOR HIM? THAT HE WANTED RECORD MONEY? THIS IS AMAZING…
Guys im goin 2 sleep i kant take it anymore…i’m six hours ahead ng going nuts…nite hope 4 something good 2 happen…lets go mets
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit hero|n.
this has got to be the most hits Mets Blog ever had… more than the trading deadline
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Sniffin’ glue for me! :)
haha, so did I, man. Jeez.
Jeff Wilpon is blowing this!!!! This is why nepotism should not be tolerated….is Charles Dolan.
This is a good sign that they’re close though. It’ll get done… but not before we’ve all torn our guts out
wow, I mean this is just getting ridiculous
this isn’t Kris Benson, we aren’t overpaying for a mediocore pitcher and setting the market high
we are talking about paying the best pitcher in baseball. He should get the most money in baseball. That’s how it works.
Pass the Tums.
Tums? That’s for rookies . . .
I’m into double Protonix! (40 mg per)
I won’t be able to eat anything for a week, as my stomach acid production will be shut down for at least that time . . .
Tums spelled backwards is Smut
the worst part is… we have to live through the agony of hoping all the players pass their physicals now. this is never ending!
Two hour extension means they’re ironing out final details. Not to worry. We’ll hear about a deal at around 7:30, barring another hour-long extension. RELAX.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit crystal meth.
hahaha… i love it.
harper from DNL said the mets will NOT go over the 5 yrs and thats the sticking point
YEP… Two more hours of agony… Someone give me a gu… or a beer…. LOL
hopefully that dude that posted on the last thread about Johan wanting an opt out after 3 years was wrong. That would be really cheesey to ask for.
If you insist on holding the team by the short ones to get the biggest deal in pitching history, at least lock it up for the full term.
Or if you think it is OK to opt out, make it mutual. After 3 years, the Mets have the option to cancel it too.”
Doubt that last one has any chance of happening!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit playing Russian roulette.
Johan Santana is across the table from me, playing beer pong
I enjoyed a bagel with Johan this morning, and then we strolled over to the Guggenheim and took in the Thannhauser Collection. Such a delightful young fellow.
So its all your fault why we didn’t get the deal done in time and now we have to suffer another two hours of not knowing! Instead of having breakfast with him you should have him sign the dam contract so we can all relax!
im pretty sure its going to get done now. but they had 2 and a half days please.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Russian roulette….
Damn! I watched “The Deer Hunter” just this morning! I’m gonna pull a Christopher Walken and blow my brains out if this deal doesn’t get done! More cowbell!
And this is exactly why the Mets have zero change of ever acquiring a top-line pitcher on the open-market. They drag their feet WAY too much and even when their the only ones in the room, they seem to like to be deliberate.
“…an unconfirmed rumor is that Johan is holding out for a bobble head doll day each year…”
o b/c i only started metsblogging after the deadline
yes… the fact that a) an extension was granted and B) its only 2 hours.. means they are pretty much agreed to 99% of the contract. They probably have money all agreed to , its just how they are going to either compensate for not guranteeing a 6th year (player option after year 3, less money per year, more signing bonus, perhaps a clause that states johan will be highest paid pitcher year 6 & 7 (player option year 6, team option year 7)
hey this is good, this means they are so close it will not collapse, just needs alittle more time, so its 99.99999999999% sure its happening, just the extra 2 hours of waiting will be so tough.
I would interperit the 2 hour extension as: “It is done. We need to review all the deal point to be sure we are in complete agreement and then we will anounce.”
If they were not that close, they would ask for a little more time than 2 hours, like perhaps a day.
Thanks for all the laughs… I’ve enjoyed watching you all sweat…
Good luck with the cr@ppy guys we gave you. hahaha
Fair enough man, fair enough man
thanks for having great scouting and development as well as a penny pinching miser owner!
Ken Rosenthal puts Santana at the meetings, but who knows.
I need a Mylanta IV drip, I think.
just spoke to my wife who works at grand hyatt nyc . johan & family are there!!!!!!!!!!!!
What line of work is she in being that she works in a hotel. :)
just leave the envelope on the nightstand
Sheesh – he ought to make sure he gets a better hotel clause in that contract. The Grand Hyatt is a pit. No Mandarin Oriental for Johan?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit playing Russian Roulette!.
dude, that is the third time you said it…we know
yeah, some people clearly don’t understand the phrase:
“Comment moderation is enabled. Your comment may take some time to appear.”
want to hear pathetic?
i’m going to the heat-nets game tonight in miami. now that there has been this two hour extension, i’ll have to hear about it via blackberry. damn.
That’s only semi-pathetic. Going a Knicks game is full-blown pathetic.
If Johan shows up at a Knicks game, he’ll probably be booed too.
this is probably Omar getting even with all of us for the comments since, well, you know.
sweat, sweat, sweat Mets fans
Dude, at the end of the day, no matter what happens. you live in Minnesota.
We win.
The extension is a good sign that a deal is close but the Mets seem to be leary of reaching that luxury tax threshold. I htink that is crazy because the Mets will be so rich from signing Santana, they drew 3.8 million Santana will push that well over 4 mil, SNY ratings will skyrocket bringing in a unfiltered cash flow, AND they have a new stadium opening.
With all that I don’t get the hold up here. Santana becomes the best player/pitcher ever to wear the uniform and a sure fire Hall of Famer.
STOP PINCHING PENNIES!!!!
pinching pennies? its pinching millions lol
Great pitcher, indeed. But a certain former Met set the record for having the highest percentage of votes ever for a Hall of Fame election.
Don’t get ahead of yourself.
If you don’t think Santana is goin to the Hall then your nuts. He may win more MORE cy youngs in the NL. That alone punches his ticket.
Who said he wouldn’t me the Hall of Fame?
What I responded to was this “Santana becomes the best player/pitcher ever to wear the uniform ”
That tells me you never saw Seaver pitch.
No I didn’t see Seaver pitch, God bless him he was great. Johan would be the closest thing to Seaver that I have seen. I did see Gooden but he didn’t live up to expectations. Given that state of the Mets coming off last year and heading into Citifield, I think this is the biggest move in met history and I believe Santana will end up being the best pitcher in team history
I hope you are right, don’t get me wrong.
But keep in mind that our very own Tom Seaver had the highest percentage of votes ever to be accorded to a player in his first year of eligibilty. EVER!
That tells you the sort of regard that Seaver was held in by folks who watched him. A higher percentage than Koufax, than Gibson, than Carlton, than Palmer, that Spahn, than anybody.
He was just unbelievable.
No doubt Santana is on way to Hall of Fame. But “best pitcher in team history” is a tall order.
I think Johan is capable of having a similar impact. Maybe not Seaver’s numbers but overall I think he will be huge for the mets going forward.
I say that because of this thought:
When was the last time the Mets actually built a team around a certified ace pitcher?
They have always gotten everything else and then tried to make an ace out of scraps.
I like Bobby Jones but he was not an ace.
I like Al Leiter but again not an ace.
Pedro is great but he’s no longer an ace.
Johan’s effect not only makes us a better team but it makes us elite.
The Mets have not had that luxury since really David Cone.
This team has tried and tried to no avail to win without having a top of the rotation horse and now those days could be over.
Thats why I think that Johan could be bigger than Seaver was for the Mets.
here’s where the Mets were prior to Seaver’s arrival in ‘67
Last in ‘62
Last in ‘64
Last in ‘64
(all of these years verging – or, in the case of ‘62 setting the standard – for ineptitude
Last in ‘65
WE MADE IT TO 9TH PLACE IN ‘66! (that was a huge accomplishment, believe someone who was rooting for them back then)
You cannot imagine the impact that Seaver had on this team when he arrived in ‘67. Yeah, the team still sucked, but he was a star and you knew it immediately.
By ‘68 we were back in 9th and then came ‘69.
We might not have had an ace the last couple of years but we had some decent pithcers. Before Seaver came in ‘67 we had as our stud pitchers Al Jackson, Jack Fisher and Dennis Ribant.
Seaver gave us credibility when we had NONE.
I am pretty sure they aren’t that close to the luxury tax threshold. When it started it was like 150 and has continually gone up. I believe it is 175 mill or higher and the Mets are anywhere near that.
The threshold this year is 155 mil. The mets when you add the abritration numbers will be at 118 mil. Add 13.8 for Santana and the possible signing of Kyle Lohse and the Mets will come very close to it
Talking about pinching…
I need to go to the Water Closet and Pinch a loaf.
I saw Johan in the 7 11 down the road! Omar was stealin the tacos tho
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit playing Russian roulette
I need to go home
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ok, and that’s the fourth time…
give it up, whatever’s holding this up…my god, won’t be able to hold ny head up if this fails
but I believe
also, I’m wasted
Matt, this is one of those posts that remind me why this blog is the best in sports. You post your opinion, but you make it clear that it is ONLY your opinion. You also post the most refined facts. You are insightful and as is your staff. Keep up the good work and let’s get Santana!
In the words of Gilligan “Skipper, anybody….HEEEEEEEEEEELP!”
Freaking ESPN News man. The anchor guy got the update from his producer and said “this just in…the deal is done, or the deal is off?…please repeat…is the deal done, or is the deal off?……..the Mets have been granted a 2 hour extension….”
ugh.
lmao i would have been pissed
Fred Hickman needs to lose the Ron Jeremy moustache and the earring. He looks like a prop at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
line of the day
Yo yo yo, Jo han is gettin it on, jo han is gettin it on, jo han is gettin it on and hes takin up all da time! Check it out this El Ache Pee is makin me, guaranteed, to have a massive bad heart degree. I cant take it no more, im bout to fall on da floor and kill myself some more. I don’t know, whatd I do, this would be like collapse number two! Yo is the deal already done and they just havin some fun? or are they in deep negotiations without even spacin. tahts it im done with this, Im gonna go have a kid and name him chris!
WORD!
Copyright @ Gary Colman Is My father
heart degree
Makes you wonder if Johan/Mets ASKED for 2 hrs specifically, or if they were only GRANTED two hours. I hope the former instead of the latter. I have a hard time believing that they would only be given 2 hours if they were truly far apart. This has got to be a good sign….means they’re close…just want to cross the t’s and dot the i’s.
I heard Johan asked Omar to take him to the best dominican restaurant with the best Mofongo and he will make his decision.. dammit OMAR.. JU KNOW WHAT IM SAYIN???
Johan is Venezuelan.
idiot..he’s from venezuela
idiot…he’s from venezuela
On the flip side…….beers will be flowing tonight either way!
they could have asked for a 72-hour extension but NO it was 2 hours.
we got him. dont worry mets fans
Tom Petty would be appropriate right now . . .
“The waaaaaaiting is the hardest part!”
I betcha he plays it Sunday night . . .
omg let’s all go out and look for Santana and beg him on our knees to sign! that is our last resort as fans
Wheres Isiah Thomas when you need him?…(wow …never thought id say that lol)
>Santana, the source says, is adamant that he deserves a vastly superior deal to Giants lefty Barry Zito, who signed a seven-year, $126 million free-agent contract last off-season.<
Know what? I dont want this greedy a-hole anymore.
Zito’s deal was ludicrous, it was ludicrous if he were Santana.
Honestly its not his fault that the Giants gave him that ludricrous contract. And he does deserve more money then Zito. The guy is unbelievable and no one should ever say that they don’t want him.
Looks like you picked the wrong week to beat a joke to death.
Ken Rosenthal is reporting that Santana IS in negotiations with the Mets directly. I think that’s a good sign – he’s coming on to close the deal
is he wearing our colors?
who’s game for a Johan Santana goatee day?
i would gladly celebrate that :)
Everyone go out and have your fun… this deal will happen.
The Twins and the Mets orgs both know this can’t fail… a PR debacle for both teams if it would
Boy, it will sure be fun having Scott Baker starting at our season opener… “Scott who?” you say…..
Exactly!
Scott Baker’s not bad….
Poor man’s John Maine….
Our 4th starter….
Che? Maine is our 3rd starter after this year possibly 2nd
i feel like if this falls through it would be like experiencing the entire month long september collapse in 2 hours.
I think it’d be like experiencing the collapse for umpteen years
Just imagine going through this in those dark, cold, days before Metsblog.
*Well, there’s college basketball on ESPN, FSNY is showing monster truck rally, all the networks have soaps on. NY1, maybe? No. Mike and Dog are discussing horseracing and tennis. Maybe if i go buy the Post it’ll say something different than the News did? ugh*
Thank God now we can dawdle in such a manner that it feels kind of constructive.
lock him up, let’s go just do it already, whatever it takes, so that this celebration can officially begin already…
This is going down like a large scale drug deal.
what do you need?
Heading out of work. 90 minutes left I will be refreshing all 90 minutes home. Lets hope it is less then that and it is good news.
GET THIS DAMN THING DONE
ok, so who pitches opening day?
Johan
matt, ken rosenthal said Johan is at the negotiations
Please God, I promise to stop masterbating for 1 week……….OK, 2 days if you just let this happen. Amen.
rofl…
That’s not funny. I don’t consider myself to be really anything, but saying something like that is a sign that you do not know God in a personal relationship.
let me tell you about my personal relationship with Jesus Christ…
Yeah… go ahead, I’d be glad to hear. E-mail me… kuliken@hotmail.com
don’t hold your breath on that (unless you wish to be nearer to your God sooner)
Cver here! Just back from the negotiations. I think they said if Costanza is willing to be his butler for a year, we can get this done:)
Opening another quart of Johnny Red….
seltzer splash…
lemon…
if we don’t get Johan the Ron Darling is gonna have to come out of retirement for us
LOL
im going to dinner with the family if anybody hears anything please text me on my cell 315-447-8524 thxs gotta believe
give him the old mobster deal sign with the mets or well kill ur family
Ken Rosenthal just reported on SNY that Johan IS in the building he arrived to finish the negotiations himself at 4pm est.
Surprised Matt hasn’t reported this… why follow M&MD but not SNY?!?!
This is absolutely rediculous. The Wilpons new what they were getting into when they traded the guy. It should not take this long to get the deal done. The Mets need him so bad they should just say look what will it take and give it to the man. He is going to pay for himself with extra ticket sales and merchandise anyway.
Once this deal happens lets all have our Raining parade if we haven’t already!
Time for the heavy ammunition….
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
LOL!!!! …..ahem……Amen.
Not worried at all. Think about it guys. If they were really far apart in the negotiations, don’t you think they would have been granted another 24 hrs. at least. Two hours tells me they are very close and may have actually agreed on terms already and just need time to draw up the contract or fill out some additional paperwork.
I’m just gonna sniff the can of semi-gloss paint I have in the shed till it’s settled! No…I’m not nervous.
Funny that most here blame wilpon for this taking so long and not Santana.
Johan is a greedy bitch.
ESPN reporting deal is done per METS! No details disclosed yet. Praise OMAR!! Woo-Hoo!!
oh yeah
Check Mate! Thank God for this beautiful day!