http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061121&content_id=1745120&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc Nice little article, says he called his agent at 3:30 am right after Cubs lost exclusivity and told him how much he wanted to stay with the cubs.
Albert will not play for another team (unless the Cardinals no longer want him for whatever reason). What in anything we know about him makes anybody think he'd take a deal somewhere else just for the money?
Shouldn't that have been a while ago? maybe they wanted aramis to be here and this was the earliest he could get here, or maybe there was a slight snag in the paperwork.