Alright, its speculation time.  Peter Gammons is leaving Espn after the winter meetings.  Here is a USA Today article.  The weird thing is that in every article I can find there is no mention of retirement.  Here are some guesses:

Top Prospects

• MLB Network:  The MLB needs a huge 2nd year and getting Peter Gammons and Harold Reynolds back together would basically be giving them Baseball Tonight plus Peter could drive people to MLB.com for high quality stories
• NESN:  Takes a pay cut and stays home
• AOL: Tim Armstrong has been very aggressively acquiring writers and after the IPO spinoff he will have plenty of money

Runner Ups

• Yahoo Sports:  They are more like SI.  They develop talent or higher undervalued writers.  Can’t see them giving him a raise that would get him away from ESPN
• Retire:  Just because he hasn’t announced his retirement doesn’t mean he won’t do it
• Radio Show:  Same route as Dan Patrick went

Outside Shot:

• FoxSports:  Unlikely as they seem to be trying to scale back salary
• SI:  Pretty unlikely as they tend to develop talent and not pay top price
• Start his own site:  Very difficult to do and he would likely make more money with any of these options

Long Shot

• Takes a year off and then launches website with Bill Simmons in 2011
• SB Nation:  This is a real stretch but Peter gave validity to reading sports on ESPN.  Now he can give validity by writing columns on SB Nation and promoting their bloggers.  He could then freelance on TV.  SB Nation could give him stock and paying him a solid salary.