Posted on 10/10/2007 7:43:36 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez is ready to cash in.
Again.
Agent Scott Boras hinted yesterday that A-Rod will opt out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees and seek a new deal in the free agent market that will lock him up through his pursuit of Barry Bonds home run record.
Boras negotiated Rodriguez record 10-year, $252 million agreement with Texas before the 2001 season, a contract the Yankees took on when they acquired A-Rod before the 2004 season. His next deal could last more than a decade.
Alex wants to be in one uniform for a long, long time, if not to the end of his career, Boras said of the 32-year-old third baseman, who likely will win his third AL MVP Award. I think Alex could play very reasonably until hes 45. So youre talking about a situation where we want this guy to be identified with one franchise and one uniform for a very long time.
“A-Rod hitting in front of, or behind, Mad Vlad would be dynamic.”
As a Cleveland fan, I was really happy the Yankees had A-Rod. :)
As a Tigers fan, I was really happy the Yankees had A-Rod last year.
as a sox fan, id like to see him in a royals jersey
There are two good things that Selig did for MLB: Divisional playoffs and the luxury tax. Since the tax was instituted three years ago, the Steinbrenner's of the world are limited as to how they can spend their money.
Besides, spending millions and millions did nothing for the Yankees in the 1980s and since 1999, their very expensive team has been 4-12 in the playoffs.
(chuckle)
I hope not. I'd like the Sox to make Lowell a very attractive offer to stay here. He's a Gold Glove-caliber third baseman with a good deal of pop---an excellent fifth hitter.
Those wins cost the Big Stein something like $1.2 billion!
The one thing the Yankees would need to do with A-Rod out of the lineup is find some serious power from the right side of the plate. For all of A-Rod's flaws, they never would have made the playoffs without him this year.
Oddly enough, the Yankees probably don't consider that to be much of a problem at all.
The Yankees aren't built to win in the playoffs, despite all of the disappointment you hear from the team these days. They've built themselves a team that will get 4 million fans through the gate (into some very expensive seats, I might add), which is very different from a team that wins championships.
It's also worth noting that this high-payroll team was able to help the Yankees get a new stadium at a pretty big expense for the taxpayers of New York.
Maybe the Sox will put Ramirez on waivers again this year!
King George should have left that ghetto in the Bronx and built the new stadium in New Jersey, where 70% of Yankee fans seem to live anyway.
That kind of business model worked for a very long time, but I think it's ultimately going to kill the NFL down the road.
Today, this OPEC-style cartel has caused a serious decline in the quality of play in the National Football League, and has pushed the NFL alarmingly close to that thin line that separates a competitive sport from a staged event.
The team had no leverage to get a stadium built in New Jersey anyway . . . the only place it could have been built would have been the Meadowlands, which is one of the worst places in the region for holding sporting events on weekday nights. And the voters in New Jersey had already voted down (by a wide margin) a proposed plan to build a stadium for the Yankees back in the late 1980s.
‘Pete Rozelle and Wellington Mara were smart to make the NFL an OPEC-style cartel back in the 1940s. ‘
Yep.
I stopped taking baseball seriously when they foisted the DH on us.
A-Rod...Mr. August.
That's why you've gotta pick a National League team to root for and just forget that the AL even exists.
as an orioles fan, it would be just fine to have him, as there would be no post season pressure at all ...
not really, I’d prefer him to go elsewhere, I’d rather get a bunch of overachieving youngsters in the style of Nick Markakis.
As a baseball fan, I'd say this is generally good. As a proponent of capitalism, I think the luxury tax is horrible and stupid. Still, if you want to be an MLB franchisee (the teams), I guess you have to play by the rules of the franchiser (MLB).
As a Seattle fan, I agree.
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