One, Timmy's agent said this signing doesn't preclude negotiations for a contract to keep Timmy as a Giant for his career. So he's looking for that 10-year kind of deal that scares the hell out of me. The good side of that is that if he's willing to sign something like that he's not desperate to get out of town.

The other thought is that I don't think Timmy would go somewhere he wouldn't be allowed to be Timmy just for more money. I suspect he knows he's already more filthy rich than any player in history at his level and would look for a place that would accept him rather than make him conform to their idea of appropriate behavior. I can't, for example, ever see him going to the Yankees. If SF has a contending team I think the Giants have a big leg up, because he's comfortable there. Seattle would have to make some major improvements to be considered a contending team, and going home might even be too much of a fishbowl.

No guarantees he sticks around, and if the Giants shy off of a really long-term deal I can't say they'd be wrong, but all the hand-wringing about him taking off at the instant he becomes a free agent just for big bucks is overblown in my opinion.

Of course I could be dead wrong.