The couple that can’t seem to extricate themselves from each other carries on for another 3 years. Through trials and tribulations, good or bad, ill will or happiness, the marriage goes on. Word is, Alex Smith and the 49ers agreed to terms on a deal. it’s somewhere near the original 3/24 that was on the table before free agency started. So, it’s back to the future, same as it ever was, tried and true, time tested, whatever cliche you’d like to insert.
My guess is that by the time OTAs roll around, all will be happy happy in Ninerland. The dalliance with Peyton Manning will be a distant memory. Especially if Manning tweaks his nack gettting out of bed one of these days. Smith now has a WR corps that is MUCH better than in recent memory. The line is solidifying nicely (especially if the Schwartz is with us), and we still have a draft to negotiate.
So, signs are looking good for the upcoming season. All these hurt feelings and squashed prides will all be forgotten and shit will be good once again. Well, until that first Alex pass hits the ground uncaught.
Party on, folks.
Forty Niners Forever 
I got a new poetic name for our frontline management team of Harbaugh and Baalke:
Baalkeball. Yes I borrow from the American League Oakland As ‘Billy Ball’ without permission as usual and “Baalke” does sound like what a pitcher might do when failing to throw the pitch. Still the foul taste of a lowball offer to Alex lingers and I wanna give full credit to the architects of that stoke of genius. That dynamic duo of Harbaugh and Baalke, those mighty men in suits blowing whistles, or wearing baseball caps,talking outta both sides of their mouthes and both ends of their anatomies…
Baalkeball
As long as Alex likes them, who are we to quibble?
Baugh one! Baugh two! Baugh three! Baalkebaugh four!
Baalkeball that’s us
OK, I’m sick this week, and out of here. Have a good day.
Get well Twin.
Same. Health to you Twin
Dennis posted on Flav BB of the day, at around 11:50 AM so he is just hiding!!
Sure that’s it. I conjecture.
This baalkebaugh thing is hard to take even for normal people, eh?
FWIW, here’s what Smith said today:
He said he was told personally by Baalke and Harbaugh that the Niners were going after Manning
and they left the contract on the table for him to accept and never pulled it.
Twin, you know good and goddamn well I never said the Niners went 14-4 despite Alex. 6 4th quarter comebacks don’t fall off trees. That being said, the hope for the Niners getting better IS the Super Bowl. To waffle on that is backpedaling to the extreme.
Hope you feel better soon . . .
“The increase in guaranteed money indicates the Niners have made a more substantial long-term commitment to Smith, who could keep backup Colin Kaepernick on the bench throughout the life of his contract. That assumes, of course, that Smith builds on his improvement from last season when he outperformed his one-year, $4.9 million deal”
That’s from Branch, and it’s common sense. As I said.
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The timeline you noted is what I’ve been saying the last few days, nobody could confirm the Niners kept him in the dark, and most likely he knew by the Niners either telling Alex straight out or the agent doing so. They didn’t skulk around and keep it from him at all…
Well, there must be mix up, that’s the release that was supposed to go out to Gooberville…this definitely shows how selective we are about what we believe.
I will say this, Alex is taking the good soldier bit to new levels..
Don’t talk to me so I don’t feel compelled to respond. It wasn’t that you said it,. it’s the prevailing opinion around on all the blogs, you know that, and many in the NFL. That first sentence was a joke. I need to shut down the PC..
I read the full interview with Alex and don’t believe a word of it., I’ll say this though, the guy could broker peace in the Mideast. he’s good…
If they do go to the Super Bowl with Alex- he’d better get that 5 years 60 million or he should fire his lame ass agent.
That was for Chuck,.. .
Well, shit Twin, I never know when yer talking to me or the world in general.
That’s the truth. Anf it’s what I siad yesterday. And the day before. If he wins a Super Bowl or 2, they re-up Alex, trade Cappy Capperson, and sign another backup rook to bide his time. They hopefully get in the situation where they CAN trade Cappy for something instead of losing him outright like the Pack did with Flynn.
Timing and all that.
Time for a long, loud, BLEEP!
I like the line about Alex being smooth enough to broker peace in the Mid East. Good one twin
Time to try bed again. See ya.
In the Sac Bee today, report says 3 yrs/$33 mill.
That’s with incentives.
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Yippy!
This is from SFGate. Worst Free Agent Signings by the 49ers:
Fred Weary CB
J.T. O’Sullivan QB
Ashley Lelie WR
Johnnie Morton WR
Jonas Jennings LT
Antonio Langham CB
Mark McMillian CB
Gabe Wilkins DE
Johnny Johnson RB
Lawrence Phillips RB
Other than Lawrence Phillips and JT, I dont’ remember any of these guys!!
Yeah I remember Phillips….he was a dud.
Radio reports saying Alex $9M guaranteed, the $16M reported by AP was total BS. Niners played hardball, knew the market, so did Alex…
More ‘really’ guaranteed versus ‘likely’ guaranteed. With this shit, only lawyers and accountants know for sure. I’m guessing its 8 this year, guaranteed, period. Then 1 truly guaranteed and another 6 or 7 as a ‘roster bonus’, meaning he only would not get it if we cut him say before May 1 next year. Probably little guaranteed money if any and a small roster bonus for 2014.
If he plays well this year, the 49ers could decide to commit for longer. Both sides just kicked the can down the road again, TBD later.