Pablo, Pickens, and Salaries

Some news and notes for the off-week:

• Today's update on Pablo's condition is encouraging, but long-term.  He is practicing with the team multiple days a week but he's not yet ready to play.  Apparently he'll make a decision about retirement once the season is over.  It sounds like he wants to continue playing but I still believe that he'll decide to retire.
• Matt Pickens' groin injury on Saturday night appears to be season ending.  It seems like Steward Ceus and possibly Ian Joyce will get the start in the last two games as the longest consecutive game streak currently in MLS and in Rapids history will end at 75 games.  Smart move by the team, being out of the playoffs Pickens has no need to risk injury and this gives Pareja a chance to evaluate Ceus and Joyce  before the off-season.
• Last week the Players Union released the updated salary list.  This includes salaries for Klute, O'Neill, Thomas, and Wahl.  No real surprise for anyone other than Thomas, who's making $187K this year, which is a bit higher than I expected.  We'll have to see what his number is for next year, if he returns, but odds are he'll be one of the higher paid members of the team.
• The other note of interest is Cummings' and Moor's new contracts.  It appears that they both took a        bit of a pay cut in exchange for extending their deals.  Cummings gave back $9K and Moor gave back $30K.  An interesting move by both of them.

The full list of salaries, with new/updated numbers bolded.

Player Position	Base	Guarenteed
Akpan Andre F	57,200.00	57,200.00
Armstrong David M	44,100.00	53,564.29
Cascio Tony M	44,000.00	77,750.00
Casey Conor F	400,000.00	400,000.00
Castrillon Jaime M	50,000.00	68,375.00
Ceus Steward GK	44,100.00	44,100.00
Cummings Omar F	81,996.96	95,999.96
Freeman Hunter D	105,000.00	110,792.50
Hill Kamani M	44,004.00	44,004.00
Joyce Ian GK	44,004.00	44,004.00
Klute Chris D	33,750.00	33,750.00
Larentowicz Jeff D	200,000.00	206,000.00
Marshall Tyrone D	90,000.00	93,250.00
Mastroeni Pablo M-D	240,000.00	245,000.00
Moor Drew D	200,004.00	212,004.00
Mullan Brian M	152,000.00	160,335.00
Nane Joseph M	44,100.00	44,100.00
O'Neill Shane M Palguta Scott D	44,004.00 63,670.00	55,504.00 63,670.00
Pickens Matt GK	178,538.00	181,038.00
Rivero Martin M	50,004.00	50,004.00
Schmidt Luis Eduardo M-F	120,000.00	139,458.33
Smith Jamie M	148,992.00	158,992.00
Thomas Hendry M	187,800.00	197,800.00
Wahl Tyson D Wallace Anthony D-M	65,000.00 63,394.00	86,086.67 63,394.00
Wynne Marvell D	250,000.00	326,666.67
Zapata Luis D	65,460.00	69,043.33