Say it ain't so Sideburns

Joe Mauer did the unthinkable for a lot of money hungry (and catcher envious) teams out there and signed a monster 8 year deal with his home town Twins for $184 Million. He was supposed to be "the guy" in next years class of free agents. It was going to be another Sox/Yanks battle over who could pony up more cash, but now it will never be because side burns is staying put.

From a feel good perspective it's really cool to see a guy stay on the team where he came up through in the state he calls home. No doubt that Minnesota fans are getting their jollies off in one of their 10 thousand lakes: New stadium, big name home town guy, what could be better? I'll tell you what could be better. If you jerks in Minnesota let him walk so he'd march into Boston next year in a Sox uniform. I guess after Johan and Torii (two "i"s, how stupid) you guys can have one of em. Live it up mutton chops, we'll see ya in October.

Mauer For Mayor

The first thing Joe Mauer thought when he won the AL MVP? How do my sideburns look? The second, and in this non-90210 obsessed world, more important thing? Cha-ching$$!! Minnesota is going to have to make a Mayoral sized commitment to Mr. Mauer if they want to have a chance of watching him compete for another MVP in 2011. Every team under the sun has been rumored to say they will give up most of their farm system to get their mitts on Mauer and since Minnesota didn't exactly get a good haul for Santana and let Torii (stupid two "i"s) Hunter slip away, there's a good chance they're going to wrap him up big time. We can only hope the Twins can play the part of the Mariners and the Sox can offer up another Heathcliff Slocumb type deal and maybe persuade Joe to come to Boston. Oh we can only hope.