Three baseball related thoughts for the day:

(1) Manny Ramirez is selling his condo at the Ritz near the Boston Common. Only $6.9 million gets you a 4,500 square foot place, four bedrooms, six bathrooms and herringbone floors (I'm not even sure what the heck they are). Unfortunately, the giant Pedro Martinez bobblehead is not included.

Now, this could mean one of two things. It could mean that Manny is so sure he's going to get out of Boston that he is selling his place here. It could also mean that Manny is going to move his family out to the suburbs during the season to give them a bit more privacy.

(2) Mets GM Omar Minaya continues to spend like a drunken sailor, picking up Carlos Delgado in a fire sale trade with the Marlins and signing Billy Wagner to a free agent contract this week. These signings come a year after Minaya opened up the Mets vaults to Pedro and Carlos Beltran last off-season. And Shea Stadium continues to be mentioned as a landing spot for Manny and the $57 million remaining on his contract as well. If this keeps up, the Mets could very well leapfrog the Red Sox into second place for highest payroll in MLB.

(3) Finally, Paul Konerko signed a 5-year, $60 million contract to return to the White Sox today. As much as I would have liked to see him change his Sox to Red, it was nice to see a guy who decided that squeezing out every last dollar was less important than being where he wanted to be. Konerko was reportedly offered another $5 million by the Orioles, but decided to stay in Chicago for a bit less. And anyways, $60 million is still a pretty obscene amount of cash, isn't it?