Scott Boras, Giants president Larry Baer exchange voicemail messages

That's about all it was, though, according to what Baer told reporters here at Scottsdale Stadium earlier today. He also was asked about Boras' insistence that Manny will pay for himself in terms of ticket sales, merchandising, etc., and Baer said that might be the case if the economy weren't in the tank, but the fact that it obviously IS in the tank negates Boras' argument. That sounds an awful lot like a window closing.