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im still with , wheres the money (16mil or so) we were gonna give beltran...considering we were keeping everyone last yr..


I guess Clemens took it all last year. I really think that if we had signed Beltran, Clemens still would have played for less money. Clemens doesn't seem to be about the money. In 04, he played for only $5 million because that's all we had. In 05, we had a lot, so he took it all.

This year, I say we not even worry about Clemens. He apparently wants to be the drama queen again and wait until later to announce his triumphic return. I say we go ahead and spend that money, fill all our holes. And then, in January or whenever he decides he wants to play, he'll have to work something out with Drayton about his salary. I'm sure they can still come to a deal, since he doesn't seem to care too much about money, and Drayton will probably do anything to bring him back.