{"id":2207,"date":"2010-12-08T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2010-12-08T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:07:46","slug":"paul-konerko-signs-3-year37-5-million-deal-has-message-for-teammates-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2207","title":{"rendered":"Paul Konerko signs 3-year\/$37.5 million deal, has message for teammates (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/konerko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2208\" title=\"MBR\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/konerko.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it was reported that talks between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/konerpa01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Paul  Konerko<\/a><\/strong> and the Chicago White Sox had <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20101207&amp;content_id=16274424&amp;vkey=news_cws&amp;c_id=cws&amp;partnerId=rss_cws\" target=\"_blank\">hit a standstill<\/a>, and that Kenny Williams was exploring other options at first base.\u00a0 On Wednesday morning, the speculation and doubt regarding Konerko\u2019s return to the South Side was laid to rest as the free agent first baseman inked a <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20101208&amp;content_id=16279452&amp;vkey=news_cws&amp;c_id=cws&amp;partnerId=rss_cws\" target=\"_blank\">3-year deal worth $37.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Paulie did not receive as much money as he had hoped, and not nearly as much as the 4-year, $56 million contract that they offered <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dunnad01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Adam  Dunn<\/a><\/strong>, his desire to return to the Chicago White Sox obviously played a key role in his re-signing.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his thoughts and emotions regarding today\u2019s big announcement, Konerko proclaimed:<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wQKKj_qeOBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wQKKj_qeOBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it was reported that talks between Paul Konerko and the Chicago White Sox had hit a standstill, and that Kenny Williams was exploring other options at first base.\u00a0 On Wednesday morning, the speculation and doubt regarding Konerko\u2019s return to the South Side was laid to rest as the free agent first baseman inked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,11,13,14,775],"tags":[264,1455,539,1456,1457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}