Article On Boras

Came across an article on Scott Boras, via Will Caroll.  One quote from Boras struck me:

The Cardinals not signing Jeff Weaver is how you don’t win divisions, and my prediction is the St. Louis Cardinals won’t win their division this year.

I can see the Cards missing the playoffs, sure, but not signing Jeff Weaver for $8 million won't be the reason.  Now if you want to argue that if the Cardinals had signed Weaver, they'd be in last place instead of fourth and in line for a better draft pick in '08, I can buy that.  Boras should've went with that.

Another interesting section is the last page, where Boras proposes replacing the World Series with a nine game series in a different city each year.  Cities would compete for the right to host it.  That's kind of cool.

Comments

[Zonis]

I'd prefer the World Series to stay with the team that wins, honestly.

It makes it possible for fans of their own team to, you know, get tickets.

And instead of making the World Series 9 games, I'd rather they make the Division Series 7 games.

[nullptr]

Related ...

http://ussmariner.com/2007/06/01/true-tales-from-the-jeff-weaver-saga/

[CubsAddictMG]

Does anyone know exactly when Boras went bat$hit, or was it more of a gradual process?

[boomshwa12]

dude he was born that way.

i just had an interesting thought: how cool would it be to see every owner in baseball decide not to negotiate with him, and actually not do it? that would never happen, but how cool would it be...