. . . class act and a Twin for life.  He absolutely wants to stay here and the professionalism he (and the Twins) has shown in keeping this thing out of the public (in spite of Rosen's snafu earlier this week) shows that.  When Puckett was negotiating his big deal (not such a big deal in today's terms) in the early 90s, it was much more public.

We're going to some Spring Training games the second week in March - hope he is 'lifer' by then.

I see Mauer's older brother Bill bought a former Hecker auto dealership in the Twin Cities and I'm sure Joe has some money in the deal.  John Elway made more on his auto dealerships in the Denver area than he did on the football field.