Comments on: A-Rod, Boras in a fight

By: Spike Owen

Spike Owen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:16:45 +0000

That wasn’t the only thing Mo said…

“The thing that I admire is that he came out and said he did it,”

“I might have done the same thing. Who knows?” Rivera said.

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60 Minutes of A-Rod « Foul Ball! — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:09:56 +0000

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By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:07:37 +0000

finally, i thought he was a jerk to say he’d be disappointed if the steroid claims made by his teammates were true. Good old perfect Arod.

i guess Mo is a jerk too:

Rivera was surprised to hear Pettitte was included last week in the report with Roger Clemens and several others on the Yankees teams that won four World Series titles from 1996-2000.

Pettitte later said he used HGH while he was on the disabled list during the 2002 season.

“It was definitely the wrong thing to do,” Rivera said.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:01:30 +0000

is that how you would define something as the “truth”? because you didn’t read it?

there are 2 opposing views: yours, and A-Rod’s version.

in A-Rod’s version he came back to the yankees almost right away.

he didn’t wait for Boras to do what he always does, which is to stretch out the process, build up a market for his client, play one party against another, then almost always come away with a big contract. what big Boras FA client has ever signed within 2 weeks of the end of the season?

A-Rod came back to the Yankees a week before anyone even knew about they were talking.

i am not saying that A-Rod didn’t come back because the Yankees were going to pay him a lot of money. i’m not that naive. of course he wanted to get paid.

but i disagree that it is now somehow a given FACT that A-Rod went to all the other teams, got everyone’s final offer weeks before the winter meetings, then came crawling back to the Yankees.

that is clearly your OPINION of what you THINK happened.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:07:13 +0000

One thing I think everyone is forgetting is the advantage that Boras brings as an agent. Bores has video of literally every game from the passed 4-5? years and keeps a huge database for stats and everything baseball related. Arod may be thinking that this stuff is still useful to him, and knows that if he fired him he could no longer use it. Boras would get the money no matter what, so it’s not like firing him would actually accomplish anything. Arod’s probably mad at Boras, but being mad doesn’t usually last forever. Also to all those people who think Arod wasn’t going to get the money anywhere, you seriously have no knowlage of the FA market. For all those FA getting absurd amounts of money, (Hunter 18 mil a year), do you really think no team would go for Arod at 28-30 mil? Teams would pay 300/10 for him, and it’s ridiculous to think they wouldn’t. When Jose Guillen and Mike Lowell combine to make 25 mil, are you really thinking Arod alone would get less?

By: Robbie D

Robbie D — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:07:06 +0000

No matter what he does, he can’t win with some people.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:28:53 +0000

I think in Spring Training A-Rod will finally admit that he and Boras don’t do sleepovers like they used to do when he was 16….yikes.

By: redbug

redbug — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:15:00 +0000

I didn’t read about one team that expressed interest in paying him more than the Yanks. Did you?

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:21:44 +0000

The truth is he found out there was no one close to paying him what the Yanks offered.

really, that’s the “truth”? sounds exactly like an opinion to me.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:19:53 +0000

that’s kindof silly.

cheating on his wife is absolutely none of our business.

cheating in baseball should be all we have access to.

how about cheating on your taxes? is Jeter now a “cheater”?

give me a break. wake me up when Yankee fans start holding Mickey Mantle to the same standard.