did theo just decide he wasn t going to spend money on pitching over the past decade or just get lackey? how much are we paying lackey a year? $17 million. $17 million a year? but you know the good news is this is his last year, right? no. this isn t nice. unfortunately, no. three more years with john lackey okay. who is a great guy. but at least we get the japanese to give us $100 million back for dice k right? no. his money is gone. that s it. take it up with layer oin friday. this isn t larry s fault. larry is, seriously, it s amazing what a genius larry is. he is. seriously. come on. a couple other quick things. mariano rivera got the all time leader on saves. wait until you hear me talk about theo after we win the world series. howard dean.
couple of announcements that it may mean the closing of facilities, and whatever you say inside the beltway, is not going to change the economic dynamics for these guys. martha: these companies to and also are intimidating, subpoenaing the documents and this is the way washington does work. martha: you raise an interesting point, so that makes it if i m a company, and i am saying to my shareholders, this is going to cost us $100 million, the change in health care, and, waxman says, i want to see every bit of communication in your company and if i m another company maybe i will not scream so loud about the fact it will cost us something if i don t want to be hauled in front of congress and share my e-mails with them. exactly. i like the principle and wish it applied to the government and i wish a few years from now when all the numbers on medicare savings and so forth don t come true, we can see the e-mails of all of the government officials and congressmen that made these laws
out. and not looking too good for the president. projected deficits are worse than expected. try $1.2 trillion worth. the c.b.o. now says the deficits this decade will total $9.8 trillion. they blame a lot of that on tax revenues that will not be nearly as robust as the administration predicted for the same period. reaction from the guy you said, the c.b.o., douglas hopesbeacon. what do you make of this? bad news for administration but especially bad news for country. if you look at the c.b.o. s unbiased look at the president proposal, the deficit never gets under $1 trillion. over $10 trillion in ten years. public debt gets up to $23 trillion, double what it is now. this is just a sea of red ink. a pretty bleak report. neil: all right. now what changed, though? in the middle of the healthcare and it will save us $100 million over ten years. now in the scheme of things it looks like relative chump