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SMLCHNG wrote:NO professional sport player is worth that many millions. PERIOD.

NOPE!!!! and that is the reason alot of them end up with those BIG A$$ EGOS! People pay them all that $$$$$ when they are not all that!

PackPhanGirl wrote:so basically Texas is coming out on the better end of this deal,right?

Yep. And we're thrilled.

from Yankee fans to A-Rod - buh-bye

Whatever team A-Rod will go to will do worse. Here is something I saw on ESPN:

A-Rod stole the spotlightposted: Monday, October 29, 2007 | Print Entry
filed under: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies

In 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.

Fine, Rodriguez is opting out of his contract. But anyone who respected baseball would not have tried to grab the stage from the World Series -- if winning were a priority. Want to know about winners? Pedroia gave up his scholarship at Arizona State to free up money to sign a much-needed pitcher, so when the Sun Devils reached the College World Series, coaches and players had "DP" on their caps in honor of their leader who never got to Omaha. The sabermetrics guys in their garages never understand these things.

Respect? Lester winning the final game of the World Series is a story that will reside with millions more people than A-Rod's gaudy statistics. Remember, this is a 23-year old who in January finished chemotherapy for lymphoma. Scott Radinsky and Jerry DiPoto, both former major league pitchers, survived the same disease and said it took them nearly a year and a half to regain their velocity, and Lester walked out on the game's biggest stage and pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings. As one doctor friend texted me, Lester brought tears and hopes to millions of kids and folks of all ages who are fighting for their lives to survive, much less win the World Series. And he did so without even a hint of a first-person pronoun. Yet, pitiably, Rodriguez did not find that as significant as his addiction to that first-person pronoun.

Maybe Tom Hicks will give Rodriguez whatever he wants, or Artie Moreno or Frank McCourt or someone else. Of course, none of them have what Lester, Pedroia and Kielty have. To some, it's all about the front page of the tabloids and the lead on SportsCenter, to others it's about giving back money so the team can better itself, or surviving cancer and winning the clinching game of the 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.

Does one player completely change a team? A-Rod has arguably been the best player in the American League since he became a full-time player with the Mariners in 1996. Since becoming a regular in 1996, Rodriguez's teams have won two of eight postseason series, no pennants and in 37 games he has batted .271 with seven homers and 17 RBIs.

Records for each team:

Seattle:
1996: 85-76; 1997 90-72: (lost in ALDS to Baltimore); 1998: 76-85; 1999: 79-83; 2000: 91-71 Lost to the Yankees in the ALCS

Texas:
2001: 73-89; 2002: 72-90; 2003: 71-91

Yankees:
2004: 101-61 (lost to Boston in ALCS); 2005: 95-66 (lost to the Angels in ALDS); 2006: 97-65 (lost to Detroit in ALDS); 2007: 94-68 (lost to Cleveland in ALDS)

There was a letter to the editor in one of the NY papers about Rodriguez opting out. The guy who wrote it said that by walking away from the last 3 years of his contract he's guilty of breach of contract and the money should be withheld. He had a clause in his contract that allowed him to walk away so he isn't breaching anything and there's no money to withhold because he's a free agent now. What a dipstick.

LIPH wrote:There was a letter to the editor in one of the NY papers about Rodriguez opting out. The guy who wrote it said that by walking away from the last 3 years of his contract he's guilty of breach of contract and the money should be withheld. He had a clause in his contract that allowed him to walk away so he isn't breaching anything and there's no money to withhold because he's a free agent now. What a dipstick.

The letter writer is in need of a lesson in legaleze.

Any one think he just may want to get the HELL outta New York. IMHO I do not blame him one bit for wanting to leave NY. I may have respect for the guy again.

Big Jimmy wrote:Any one think he just may want to get the HELL outta New York. IMHO I do not blame him one bit for wanting to leave NY. I may have respect for the guy again.

Then why did he say he wanted to stay with the Yankees when asked? Yes, it was probably a ploy but he could have said that he didn't want to talk about his contract because he is under contract with the Yankees currently and will only talk about it after the season.

aeroparrot wrote:

popcornjack wrote:

PackPhanGirl wrote: "Alex's decision was one based on not knowing what his closer, his catcher and one of his statured pitchers was going to do," Boras told the Associated Press. "He really didn't want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing."

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID!!!!! HE MADE A DECISION BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING!!!!!! WHAT A F***ING MORON!!!!!!!

I think it's ego. I have said it before, he has always made the team he was on "worse" (relatively speaking of course).

Well the article does say he had to let the Yankmees know within 10 days after the end of the World Series what his intentions were, so he obviously couldn't wait to see what would happen with those other guys.

AdamBomb8 wrote:

aeroparrot wrote:

popcornjack wrote:

PackPhanGirl wrote: "Alex's decision was one based on not knowing what his closer, his catcher and one of his statured pitchers was going to do," Boras told the Associated Press. "He really didn't want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing."

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID!!!!! HE MADE A DECISION BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING!!!!!! WHAT A F***ING MORON!!!!!!!

I think it's ego. I have said it before, he has always made the team he was on "worse" (relatively speaking of course).

Well the article does say he had to let the Yankmees know within 10 days after the end of the World Series what his intentions were, so he obviously couldn't wait to see what would happen with those other guys.

Or he didn't want too.

aeroparrot wrote:

AdamBomb8 wrote:

aeroparrot wrote:

popcornjack wrote:

PackPhanGirl wrote: "Alex's decision was one based on not knowing what his closer, his catcher and one of his statured pitchers was going to do," Boras told the Associated Press. "He really didn't want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing."

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID!!!!! HE MADE A DECISION BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING!!!!!! WHAT A F***ING MORON!!!!!!!

I think it's ego. I have said it before, he has always made the team he was on "worse" (relatively speaking of course).

Well the article does say he had to let the Yankmees know within 10 days after the end of the World Series what his intentions were, so he obviously couldn't wait to see what would happen with those other guys.

Or he didn't want too.

A tiny piece of me (the part down near my sphincter) wants to give A-ROD/Boras a small bit of credit for not letting the Yanks twist in the wind for the whole 10 days. NY was able to go into the exclusive negotiating period with it's free agents knowing they can spend the amount that would have been set aside to pay him.

On the plus side for NY: Pettite was quoted as saying NY is the only place he wants to play next year. Not a great negotiating tactic, dumbass!

The question now is will anyone be willing to sign him for close to, or more than, he was making