A-Rod Deal Looks Close

Yankees have no spine. For now on no one will believe anything that thier upper management has to say. What a joke. If Yankees do not negotiate with him then maybe he sits out next year cause no one else could afford 250 million dollars.

This whole scenario is a little bittersweet for me. I like seeing Boras eat his hat and have to take a lower salary than his "golden child" is supposedly worth (according to him, anyway), and I like Hankenbrenner having to eat his hat and negotiate with A-Rod after saying "no way." But I don't like that the Yankees are just buying up another great player... again. With some luck, they'll find out the contract is an albatross when A-Rod is a 41 yr old DH and owed $25MM.

It still seems to me the Yankees are bidding against themselves. Certainly this is less the the supposed $350M that ARod was reportedly looking for but what other team is prepared to even offer $275M? If I were the Yanks I'd start at $180 over eight years.

FineHamBounds:

ARod's getting a raise. 27.5 per year + performance bonuses. You think the Yankees won some moral victory here? Boras is probably giggling around a bottle of Cristal and some strippers.

Boras went to the market with a player worth around ~20 mil per year (considering age etc), loudly proclaimed that he was worth 35 million a year and now got at least 27.5 million a year.

My friend stopped rooting for the Yankees after they started buying everyone in sight and managing like retards.

I think I'll do the same. So who should I root for? Tampa Bay? Rockies? Cleveland?

Could A-Rod be crawling back to the Yankees because he fears that his name will be showing up in the Mitchell report?

I think its funny that people on ESPN and the likeare saying things like...." Arod has swallowed his pride and came crawlin ack". Really? So spitting in a teams face, holding them hostage for 350 mil just to talk, then going back and getting the biggest deal in major league history. Yep he definitely did some pride swallowing.

"Boras did a lot of good things for Alex through the years, and Alex knows that. I mean, obviously, he's going to look to Scott's advice on everything," Hank Steinbrenner said. "That's not unusual today. It's not like he's the only one. And if an agent gets out of line or makes bad decisions, then that's going to hurt the player. And obviously, that's one of the things that happened here."

and:

"The sides still are working on putting together a provision that would allow Rodriguez to share revenue created by his pursuit of the career home record"

So first: Hank Steinbrenner actually said flat-out that Boras screwed up. Whether or not it's true, or it was agreed upon to say it, Boras is not coming out smelling like roses on this one; he'll reap the benefits, but the perception will be that he's not as brilliant in his ruthlessness as everyone thought.

And second; $275 million plus tens of millions in incentives isn't enough, apparently. Revenue sharing. Oddly enough, I think that makes sense. It'll be his acheivement when it happens, he should probably share in the money-grubbing.

i think boras and arod played the yankees here, or the yankees played themselves.

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