Close to Lowe? Not Close to Lowe?

Earlier
today it seemed that the Mets and Lowe was going to happen, and happen
very soon. The Boston Globe, New York Daily News and New York Posts
were all reporting that the deal was almost done and was going to be
finalized between Christmas and New Years. The deal was going to be
somewhere between 14 to 16 million a year for 3 or 4 years.

Then
ESPN came out with their story as reported by Buster Olney. Olney just
said that the Mets have not offered Lowe anything yet and that although
they have had discussions, they have yet to have serious discussions
with Lowe and Boras.

So there are a few things going on. The
first might be that Buster and the News/Post/Globe have different
definitions of “serious discussions”. But in reality its just the
market that we live in today for Free Agent news. My gut feeling is
that the Mets are somewhere in betwene the Buster report and the
News/Post/Globe reports. That they have had serious talks about Lowe
and have talked to Lowe but that have not offered a contract yet.
Buster says that the Mets are still seriously considering Perez and
Wolf. I hope we are as close to Lowe as the newspapers suggest, but in
this day and age you never know.