Yes, boys and girls, you read that right - Matt Wieters signed before the midnight deadline!
Baseball America the pertinent details:
All 30 first-rounders are done. No. 5 overall pick Matt Wieters signed at the last second with the Orioles.
OK, maybe not ALL the pertinent details, but who cares? Our long national nightmare is over - MATT WIETERS SIGNED!
And if Scott Boras and Peter Angelos can do business together, then that whole Israel vs Arabs thing will be a piece of cake, right?
Update [2007-8-16 0:36:50 by duck]: According to The (Baltimore) Sun:
"In an 11th hour deal, the Orioles signed Georgia Tech catcher Matt Wieters to a contract that will pay the 21-year-old approximately a $6 million signing bonus.
Whatever. Whether it was the $8.5 million BBA.com was saying or the $5 million The Sun originally said, who cares? He's signed!