I wouldn’t worry about that. The triplets will have to match consecutive 19 win to get the same raise. If they all end up doing that, I’m sure the seasons will be so good that money simply does not matter.

No, you misremembered!

The inconsistency I found was actually in McNamee’s deposition, which is all over the place. He tries to control the deposition, and has to be brought back to the question at hand on a number of occasions. I am about halfway through it at this point.

I got the sense from Pettitte’s deposition that he was trying to get it right, trying to find the right way to say things. I also got the sense that on a few occasions when he was having trouble remembering things exactly, he was a passive witness, in that – and I don’t want to say the wrong thing here – but it helped him to have his memory jogged somewhat by the questioning.

I think he had a difficult time with knowing for sure if he misheard Roger Clemens regarding HGH, wanting to give his friend the benefit of the doubt, but reconciling that with what he truly believed he remembered. That’s the greatest source of contradiction, if you want to call it that. But I agree he would not have been a great witness. As we’ve seen, however, neither McNamee nor Clemens was particularly exemplary, either.

Wang = arbitration
K-Rod = arbitration
Perez = arbitration & the Mets just forked over 137M to Santana
Kazmir gets 3.7M leading the league in strikeouts
Howard = arbitration

Howard, Wang & K-rod = Player association pressure on agents to push salaries higher.

What they do here with Wang will have ramifications for others with top pitchers when Wang is used as a comp, especially with that abnorally low K rate.