possible reason arod signed early?

[ArcticKnight]

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He has been offered the longest contract in history and apparently a larger contract than the Yankees were offering before he opted out.

So what if Boras said the Yankees needed 350 million? If Boras said they needed to give him 1 billion dollars, would it matter? The Yankees said very clearly by opting out the Yankees would not negotiate with A-Rod. Period. Instead they gave him the largest contract ever, and one that will pay A-Rod until he is 42.

The spin doesn't matter. A-Rod "crawling back" to the Yankees doesn't matter. If the reports are true he's got a better deal by opting out than he would have by not opting out.

Edit: and lol, Boras is such a villain so that when A-Rod blows off Boras he looks like a good guy.

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I agree on all points except the "crawling back" part. Based on the exchanges back and forth, if there is any perception of crawling back it will be that the Yankees crawled back to A-rod. After all, it was the Yankees who gave A-Rod/Boras an ultimatum.

FWIW, I think having Boras out of the picture for these talks helped the Yankess save face, and it infers all would have been good from the beginning if not for Boras.

Anyway, latest news is that the Yankees are intersted in Lowell for 1st base (or they are just trying to make the Redsox pay bigger $$ for him..lol).

[Jack of Arcades]

No way, A-Rod will be seen as "humbled" and all that. People will think A-Rod "lost." I submit to you exhibit A, Gene Wojcieshowski

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If ever two people deserved very large servings of humility it is Rodriguez and agent Boras. They spectacularly underestimated the blowback caused by their latest series of business miscalculations. The bumbling has further damaged A-Rod's credibility and left welt marks on Boras' carefully crafted persona of invincibility.

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[ZBTHorton]

I think he signed because nobody showed even remote interest in him. Nobody wants to deal with Boras. Nobody has 300 million except the Yanks/Sox.

[Russ M.]

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I think he signed because nobody showed even remote interest in him. Nobody wants to deal with Boras. Nobody has 300 million except the Yanks/Sox.

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[Jack of Arcades]

Seems unlikely the Yankees would give him 275m if there was no market for A-Rod.

[Riverman]

Anyone else hear on sportscenter that ARod essentially fired Scott Boras and used Goldman Sachs to negotiate with the Yankees?

[capone0]

Boras is a retard.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

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Anyone else hear on sportscenter that ARod essentially fired Scott Boras and used Goldman Sachs to negotiate with the Yankees?

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Makes more sense than the original story that the Yankees told A-Rod they'd only talk to him if Boras wasn't involved, since that's in violation of the Basic Agreement.

[Bedreviter]

If its true that he will get a hefty bonus for breaking various HR-records he might end up getting more than $300 million afterall, so seems like a pretty sweet deal for A-Rod.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

what's lost year is that Arod just signed the largest contract in MLB history



(and he's 32 [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img])