...a billion dollars?!
Quote:[Boras] said he will tell prospective bidders that Rodriguez could play until he is 45, which will allow him to not only become baseball's all-time home run king, but also the all-time hits leader. If those accomplishments are within reach, Boras said he will argue that Rodriguez will be worth somewhere between a half-billion and a billion dollars over a decade to a team's regional sports network.
So basically, Boras is suggesting that if Rodriguez opts out of his contract with the Yankees, he's going to ask for a deal of at least 10 years, and possibly for in excess of $50 million per year...
Who will pay that?
I disagree that he will be worth close to a half billion over 10 years to a team's regional sports network. He does not add that much value to teams that have a following to begin with. I think he would strenghten most teams. That is not what Boras is talking about though.
the red sox or the cubs...if cuban took over...
I know they paid a boatload to get Dice-K, but I don't see A-Rod being that much of an asset to the Red Sox. They would see re-signing Lowell as bargain relatively speaking.
Who knows what Cuban would do?
Boras is something else. Whereas, on the surface he seems so shyster lawyeresque, you have to admire the man's neon testicles. I wish I had an agent who referred to me as "iconic."
You know, I'm surprised he hasn't opened further possibility avenues for smaller markets by speaking directly to the metropolitan areas of teams, suggesting that bringing ARod to town would prove a boost for economic growth and improved overall healthcare; therefore, they should send boxes of large denomination bills directly to respective team officials to add to the ARod Pot.
It's so easy to sit there and say what the man has said is preposterous. But, he may be right.
I know he is not the same A-Rod but acquiring his services under that theory did not work for the Rangers did it?
RAMBKSB response:
do you men realize that J motherdoggin D Drew is receiving something on the order of $14 million dollars per annum here in the year of our Lord 2007? this fact throws the whole analysis into a void of meaninglessness. this fact suggests Boras is correct, anything goes
The fact that Drew is overpaid means that everyone should be. If Gagne is getting cab fare to the park, every reliever in baseball should be earning 40 million?
Quote:The fact that Drew is overpaid means that everyone should be.
i'm sayin. and i know that's the view held by mr. boras.
Mr. Clement is hanging out on the DL making, like, $9 million or something today, while Beckett is getting $6.66 million. Lugo pulls down $8 million plus for the love of Allah. it strikes me as odd that Mr Drew is enjoying the 14.4 million, where Papi is getting $13 million and some change.
maybe this is a discussion that pretty much defies reality (bringing us back to the gospel according to Boras)
JD Prof. Longhair Wrote:Quote:The fact that Drew is overpaid means that everyone should be.
i'm sayin. and i know that's the view held by mr. boras.
Mr. Clement is hanging out on the DL making, like, $9 million or something today, while Beckett is getting $6.66 million. Lugo pulls down $8 million plus for the love of Allah. it strikes me as odd that Mr Drew is enjoying the 14.4 million, where Papi is getting $13 million and some change.
maybe this is a discussion that pretty much defies reality (bringing us back to the gospel according to Boras)
Boras must have more money than God. I wonder what percentage he does pull down for this. There apparently is no such thing as crying or cost-benfit analysis in baseball.
he is in many ways a visionary. his greed is sublime, it kind of stands alone with other abstract notions. there's God. Logic. Beauty. the venality of Boras. things that just "are."
we are talking about paying ARod, a fine ballplayer no doubt, a sum of money that many small third world countries don't have sloshing around in their economies at any given time. only a guy who thinks Big Thoughts can justify paying a position player more than Papua New Guinea's GNP
is Papua New Guinea a country Fayettewuf? i don't know
Whatever it is I am sure it has a GNP but I doubt if it can hit for average with power.
I've never had a problem with Boras getting as much money for his clients as possible. If owners are dumb enough to pay it, that's their problem.
If the Yankees stick to their word and the Sox re-sign Lowell, he'll have to invent a competing bid like he did when A-Rod signed with the Rangers
Quote:I've never had a problem with Boras getting as much money for his clients as possible.
then i presume all aspects of this business model are equally inoffensive to all concerned. when Boras gets as much money for his clients as possible and a bleacher seat in Fenway to see a regular season game vs. the Devil Rays runs up on $1,000, this will also cause no heartburn to the faithful
sniff, sniff, sniff...smells like socialism...
better dead than red, you know. spose that includes red socks.
no, no, seriously dudes, i remember one time reading an article by that old right wing hack bob novak about how baseball needs a salary cap. i think we can all get behind this, right?, loony crazy eyed lefties and unshaven gun totin righties and all the rest...a-rod's agent using the b-word should definitely be the catalyst for some sort of change.
JD Prof. Longhair Wrote:Quote:I've never had a problem with Boras getting as much money for his clients as possible.
then i presume all aspects of this business model are equally inoffensive to all concerned. when Boras gets as much money for his clients as possible and a bleacher seat in Fenway to see a regular season game vs. the Devil Rays runs up on $1,000, this will also cause no heartburn to the faithful
The Red Sox owners are quite astute businessmen, so I doubt you'd see such a situation in Boston.
I don't see the Red Sox offering that much for A-Rod. If it's true that he turned down a 5 year $150m extension from the Yankees and the Yankees have claimed they won't bid on him if he rejects it, the Red Sox should offer 5 years $125 m and give him five days to sign it.
If he doesn't they resign Lowell for three years and spend the money trading some talent to the Twins for Santana and signing him long term. Then you have three twenty-something pitchers signed to long-term deals.