Comments on: A-Rod leaves Yankees, loses $91 million, respect

By: Raise your hand if you're going to make $51.3 million next season. | Sports Business Digest

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:54:56 +0000

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By: 2007 Sports Recap (as told by 100 posts by the best sports bloggers) | Sports Business Digest

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:26:33 +0000

[...] 86. A-Rod opts out. In what can only be described as the most “classy” move ever. A-Rod’s agent, Scott Boras decided to announce that A-Rod was opting out of his Yankees contract during game 4 of the World Series. Boras probably thought this was a great marketing strategy, because everyone was watching, but it really only pissed everyone off (via Sports Business Digest) [...]

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Sports Business Digest — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:17:14 +0000

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By: Is Scott Boras losing his touch? | Sports Business Digest

Is Scott Boras losing his touch? | Sports Business Digest — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:54:30 +0000

[...] has been less than stellar. First it started out with his extremely poor timing of A-Rod’s announcement to opt out of his contract. Then, that was followed up with A-Rod going to Warren Buffet (instead of Boras) to receive [...]

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:36:53 +0000

I chuckled in pure disgust when I heard the news A-Rod was opting out of his contract. How’s that possible? Oh, it’s possible when you get so freakin’ sick of the New York Yankees after having to hear about their news the whole post season, just to turn around and listen to the talk that a Yankee is opting out of his contract to look elsewhere.

By: emmettjones

emmettjones — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:51:07 +0000

Ha! being from Pittsburgh that would be awesome…a reason to actually watch Pirates baseball past June.

By: Pirates Fan

Pirates Fan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:45:26 +0000

This is great how I see things. Now the Pirates just have to convince Torre to come to Pittsburgh, then we should be able to snag A-Rod, Rivera, and we might as well get Bonds back while we are at it.

By: liverdamage

liverdamage — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:45:50 +0000

A-Rod is not coming back to Texas. 0% chance.

The press here murdered him for a solid year before he left.
The overwhelming majority of Rangers fans HATE him.
A-Rod hates this city for the way he was treated.
Tom Hicks said he considers that contract a mistake.
Tom Hicks has gone cheapskate.
Tom Hicks won’t deal with Scott Boras. They won’t draft his players or sign his free agents, only exception being 1 year deals (Gagne like) and Millwood (Millwood doesn’t make big, and happens to be (if I remember correctly) the only multi-year f.a. signing in the past 6 seasons)

Any “reports” of the Rangers being interested in signing A-Rod are only Boras leaving the door open for using them as a bargaining chip. A-Rod and the Rangers will never be reunited – FACT.

By: Sportsattitude

Sportsattitude — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:03:58 +0000

I have to admit becoming pretty much numb to the “news” about baseball these days…steroids, Yankees, steroids, Red Sox…a lot of folks have been outraged about the A-Rod announcement, but I was equally outraged I had to hear about Joe Torre for a couple of weeks as well. The Yankees are at the top of the classless heap for scheduling their “management conference” during the playoffs, making it out to be some kind of United Nations get-together and then shoving a contract offer at Torre they knew even he wouldn’t accept. So, to me it’s just a case of they get what they give. A-Rod is what he is, Boras is what he is…and life goes on for both, albeit with even more money about to fall into their accounts.