MLB Not Happy with ARod's Timing

[He Hate Me]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/10/29/rodriguez.mlb.ap/index.html

 

MLB 'disappointed' in Boras' timing

Agent apologizes for upstaging Series; A-Rod files

Posted: Monday October 29, 2007 6:24PM; Updated: Monday October 29, 2007 10:06PM

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Major League Baseball had this message for Alex Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras: Shame on you.

 

Boras announced during Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night that A-Rod was opting out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees. The timing left baseball officials livid, and Boras apologized Monday evening -- just after Rodriguez filed with the players' association and became a free agent for the first time since 2000.

 

"We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

 

"There was no reason to make an announcement last night other than to try to put his selfish interests and that of one individual player above the overall good of the game," DuPuy said. "Last night and today belong to the Boston Red Sox, who should be celebrated for their achievement, and to the Colorado Rockies, who made such an unbelievable run to the World Series."

 

Boras said causing a distraction was an unintended consequence.

 

"I apologize to the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies and their players, Major League Baseball and its players, and baseball fans everywhere for that interference," he said in a statement. "The teams and players involved deserved to be the focus of the evening and honored with the utmost respect. The unfortunate result was not my intent, but is solely my fault. I could have handled this situation better, and for that I am truly sorry."

 

Red Sox fans sure took notice fast. After their team won the title for the second time in four seasons, they stood behind the visitors' dugout at Coors Field and chanted: "Don't sign A-Rod!"

 

"Kind of strange timing," Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said after Boston completed its sweep of Colorado.

 

New York, which failed to make the World Series in all of Rodriguez's seasons, maintained Monday that it will not attempt to re-sign A-Rod now that he has opted out.

 

"No chance," Hank Steinbrenner, a son of owner George Steinbrenner, said Monday at Legends Field. "Not if it's made official."

 

Rodriguez signed his record $252 million, 10-year contract with Texas before the 2001 season. By cutting the deal short, he will have earned $180 million over seven seasons in signing bonus, salaries and his assignment bonus from when he was traded. In addition, he has earned $3.65 million in award bonuses and is in line to gain as much as $1.8 million more for postseason awards this year.

 

Terminating the contract saved the Texas Rangers $21.3 million they owed the Yankees over the next three years, payments agreed to at the time of the 2004 trade.

 

Hank Steinbrenner did not make much of Boras' timing on the announcement.

 

"It doesn't matter to me," he said. "But I'm sure there's a lot of people that aren't very happy about it. Other baseball people, the commissioner's office, the Red Sox."

 

Hank Steinbrenner said the team left messages with Rodriguez, and "we really wanted to meet with him."

 

"We wanted him to stay a Yankee. We wanted to let him know how much we wanted him," he said. "The bottom line is ... do we really want anybody that really doesn't want to be a Yankee? How the heck can you do that? Compare him with (Derek) Jeter. Jeter, since he was a little kid, all he ever wanted to do was play shortstop for the Yankees. That's what we want."

 

New York was preparing to offer Rodriguez a four- or five-year extension worth between $25 million and $30 million annually and had hoped to meet with A-Rod to present the offer.

 

"We expressed our interest in keeping him in pinstripes, and requested the opportunity to convey those eelings to him directly with the Steinbrenner family in an open, face-to-face dialogue," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said in a statement.

 

Cashman sounded as if Rodriguez's stay in the Bronx was over.

 

"Alex was a key part of our success over the last four seasons, and I appreciate having the opportunity to work with him," he said. "I only wish we could have raised a championship trophy together during his time here, which was the ultimate goal we all shared."

[rician blast]

Boras' apology is a farce. He knew exactly what he was doing and to say his intent was not to upstage the WS is a joke.

 

He's transparent and has been exposed time and time again. Douche Bag. Total fkn douche bag and if ARod was also ok with the timing it speaks further to his own lack of character. Perhaps there's a reason you never here teammates saying what a great team guy ARod is after he leaves for new pastures.

 

Does anyone really want this slut in Boston?

[VA Sox Fan]

I'll never get ANYONE wanting to sign the Fraud or Bonds. They would stick out like sore thumbs in the Red Sox club house.

 

I like what the BDD added:

 

"We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement. There was no reason to make an announcement last night other than to try to put his selfish interests and that of one individual player above the overall good of the game." -- 10.29.07, Bob DuPuy, MLB's chief operating officer. Fox television's Joe Buck and Tim McCarver should have offered viewers a similar sentiment after Ken Rosenthal interrupted the game with the A-Rod advertisement. They did not. Shame on them too

[Mr Crunchy]

shame?

the shame is rupert murdoch still having those cocksmokers polluting american airwaves

god i hate mccarver

as far as arod goes

who pays him 30M now?

moreno in anaheim?

youre arty moreno,you're going to pay arod 15-18M more than vladdy?

youre the chicago trib,youre going to pay arod 20M more than derek lee and hello carlo zambrano??

youre the boston red sox,youre the world champs

you have deep pockets and a core of young arms as well as some potent big time hitters

you going to pay arod 20M more than david ortiz??

i dont think so

 

youre scott boras and when ny and boston are both pissed off at you then your goals become difficult to achieve.

when marketing a 30M per year man who was out slugged by 125 different ball players this october you need to maintain a bit of leverage....he f***ed up

[Paradisecity]

Yeah he f***ed up when he convinced Drew to opt out too, right?

You're the Boston Red Sox- are you going to pay J.D. Drew 5M more than Ortiz per year?

 

 

Listen- the red sox aren't mad at Scott Boras for this. They don't freaking care. They just have to pretend they are pissed so that we fans can feel a sense of entitlement in our pissiness. It gives the sox the perfect excuse not to sign A-Rod if they don't want to. If i may quote Ben Affleck in Boiler Room:

 

"act as if"

 

thats what the sox are doing.

 

 

I also don't think its Scott Boras making ALL the calls here. They would have listened to the yankees at the table if he was. I genuinely think A-Rod said "no f***ing way am I playing here for that long. I am sick of playing second fiddle to a guy who is inferior to me at shortstop and hit 40 less homeruns and i'm sick of the NY media. f*** this place, Rodriguez out."

 

I wonder if Tom Hicks threw Boras a few million as a thank you?

[YAZMAN]

I wonder if Tom Hicks threw Boras a few million as a thank you?

 

I thought the same thing the second I heard about the opt-out.

 

How the hell can you not take the NY offer? Only one answer, ego - of the player, the agent, or, most likely, both.

[Optimist]

Here was Boras the other night, getting his client A-Rod into the World Series the only way he can, having him opt out of his Yankees contract on the night the Boston Red Sox were about to sweep the Colorado Rockies.

 

In so doing, Boras unwittingly gave us a fitting epitaph to A-Rod's Yankee career:

 

He upstaged more World Series games than he actually played in.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2007/10/30/2007-10-30_bid_farewell_to_arod_the_goldplated_phon.html

[TheKilo]

Gammons ripped ARod a new *******, too.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3084768

 

n many ways, it's sad, because Alex Rodriguez is a great player and a good guy. On the field after the Red Sox clinched their second world championship in four seasons, I had two Rockies players beg me to rip A-Rod for his attention grab, one Red Sox player said he'd walk away if asked about Rodriguez and more than 10 other players reveled in laughing at the iconic $30 million-a-year player who doesn't know what it's like to be Jon Lester or Dustin Pedroia, Ryan Spilborghs or Bobby Kielty and play in a World Series.

 

Anyone who led with Alex Rodriguez should look in the mirror and go to celebrity rehab. Jon Lester is the greatest story of the 2007 baseball season, and he wouldn't trade what he symbolizes to his fellow man for all of Alex Rodriguez's millions.

[He Hate Me]

Gammons ripped ARod a new *******, too.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3084768

 

wow..gee Peter, tell us what you really think of ARod

 

BTW, as a side note, I have to say that the amount of baseball coverage devoted to the Girardi/Torre/ARod thing has been completely ridiculous when you consider that a team that hasnt won the WS in 86 years has suddenly won 2 in the span of 3 years.

[nateg]

Sit back and picture A-Rod in a Boston uniform, goofy face and all. Yep, looks like ass doesn't it? Does it make you feel sick to your stomach? It did for me.

[He Hate Me]

i would love to see him in a Sox uni.

 

ARod's like the beautiful girl with the pornstar body who refuses to put out but will tease you once in a while. You know shes not gonna give you any but DAMN you wanna make sure you're the first when she does put out cuz you know its gonna be memorable.

[Gom]

Arod will destroy any teams chances long term due to his salary demands. The only two teams that won't have this problem will be the Red Sox and the Yankees, and I don't see him signing with either one.

[Mr Crunchy]

54-155-300

 

if that aint putting out then the human race is doomed

 

as far as arod goes in comparison to drew?

your discussing over double the salary and triple the years and there wont be any dice ks on the back burner to make this easier to swallow..

theres no way theo is that f***ing stupid to sign drew without knowing the skids were greased for dice k to land here....i would hope he isnt that f***ing stupid...

anyways

that jd drew deal is still a collassal f*** up and the front office knows it

there are 19 different owners here and even though they defer to henry for player decisions theyre still interested in a profit.

300M for arod isnt happening in boston and i dont think anyone else is stepping up with that kind of coin either....

boras f***ed up by declaring without discussing reupping with ny 1st

you want the big bucks you talk to ny no matter what.

when you take ny and boston out of the equation that changes the price of poker and not in the players favor.