Yeah, but if A-Rod and his postseason performance is worth 200 million, Beltran and his postseason performance is a real bargain! ;-)

In all seriousness, Beltran probably made himself about $20 million in those couple of weeks. Maybe more.

In 11 postseason games last year, A-Rod hit .320 (16-for-50), with eight extra-base hits, including three home runs. Scored 11, drove in eight and stole a couple of bases. I'll take all those numbers any day (do the math over 162 and you'll see).

i'm still pissed that the astros didn't sign beltran, and the whole gazillion dollar contracts thing is getting to be a little much to stomach these days.

sigh.

Believe me, I checked A-Rod's numbers... if they would have been bad I would have posted them! ;-)

I'd say 20 mil is on the low end of what Beltran made with his spectacular playoff performance!

Hmmmm...adjusting for inflation, could the answer be Danny Tartabull in 1992?

This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from this offseason (regarding the $10,000 A-Rod Fan Experience):

"I've spent for some crazy stuff," says Barry Halper, a minority owner of the Yankees. "But an A-Rod 'experience'? How about he hits a few balls through the infield in the postseason? That's the kind of A-Rod experience I'd like."

Sour grapes from a Yankees fan? The Mets finally beat the Yanks at their own game - overpay for the best available pitcher and hitter.

Of course any NYer should be proud to live in a city so great that it can afford TWO all-star laden, baseball teams!

I'll be rooting all year for another Subway Series this October, with a slightly different ending than 2000.

By the way, I thought the Big Ugly was doing us all a favor when he covered up the camera with his hands. There's gotta be a YES network email out there saying, "easy on the close-ups this year".

Surely you did not just refer to the Mets as "All-Star laden" in the same breath as the royalty in the Bronx.

In 2002-04 combined, the Yankees had 19 All-Stars. The Mets had 4.

Perhaps the Mets can match that number this year, though.

There's a lot of "perhaps" with the Mets, but at least it'll be fun, since people are definitely looking on the positive side of this team: ya know, stuff like thinking Kris Benson is a big score when he's a below-.500 pitcher who happens to have a slutty wife.

I'm still thinking they win 90 in a best-case scenario, which is about where the Yanks would end up worst-case.