The MLB off-season/Scott Boras hate thread

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Teger

Akileese you and Burkex destroy any chance of Boston not coming off as total homos on this board. You both treat anything from Boston like the second coming of Jesus.

Way to get the sand in your vagina. I just find it hilarious that A-Rod is going to bicker over 2 years and probably 50 million dollars (honestly, what's 50 million when you're making 280?). He's a fucking douchebag. If Boston signs him, I will never root for them again. I will abandon pro baseball for the rest of my life (or root for the Pirates which is pretty much the same thing). If you think I'm joking, you don't know me well enough.

[Burkex]

Guys this is serious, I just saw Jesus.




Oh wait nevermind it was Josh Beckett.

[Teger]

Originally Posted by Akileese

Way to get the sand in your vagina. I just find it hilarious that A-Rod is going to bicker over 2 years and probably 50 million dollars (honestly, what's 50 million when you're making 280?). He's a fucking douchebag. If Boston signs him, I will never root for them again. I will abandon pro baseball for the rest of my life (or root for the Pirates which is pretty much the same thing). If you think I'm joking, you don't know me well enough.

50 million is still 50 million, and he obviously wants the most money he can get. I don't see him going to Boston, I think the Yankees will offer up enough to keep him there, hes a huge draw for them.

What makes him a douchebag?

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Teger

50 million is still 50 million, and he obviously wants the most money he can get. I don't see him going to Boston, I think the Yankees will offer up enough to keep him there, hes a huge draw for them.

What makes him a douchebag?

Have you been under a rock? Cashman has said time and time again if he opts out, they will not negotiate (management and ownership has seconded this statement). I see him going to Anaheim. It makes the most sense.

Also, Boston kind of makes sense. We have a 3rd base opening, and he's available. I just don't like the guy because he's a complete and total me first player. Guys on Boston play like a team for the most part (where part of the Yankees problems is that they have too many me first star players and aging veterans who can't perform). I say resign Lowell and offer him 3 years. If it's a bad deal, so be it. He still has 1 or 2 great years left in him at Fenway. So what if you're paying him to ride the bench that 3rd year?

[Teger]

I think the Yankees can't afford to lose him, regardless of what they've previously said. Also, fans in New York treated him like shit and his team is in free fall, what should he be doing?

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Teger

I think the Yankees can't afford to lose him, regardless of what they've previously said. Also, fans in New York treated him like shit and his team is in free fall, what should he be doing?

Oh he and Boras are fucking geniuses (it's ironic how everything played out perfectly for him), but he's still a douchebag for leaving that much money on the table to take a little more (probably 300M instead of 250M). Maybe it's because I'm a blue collar guy, but I really couldn't see the difference. I mean , he could of taken the extension and still made 250M over the next 8 years (a little over 30 million annually).

Someone will do something dumb, like give him 12 years and 350 million. I fucking know it.

[Ham n Cheese]

Originally Posted by Akileese

ESPN - Agent: A-Rod opts out of contract with Yankees - MLB

A-Rod is out of New York. Thank you for all but sealing our 2008 division title. When should we print the T-shirts and Hats?

"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 said. "He really didn't want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing."

Uh what... He doesn't want to make any decisions until he knows their status, so he opts out? Pretty sure that's a decision and he had 10 days after the World Series to make one

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Uh what... He doesn't want to make any decisions until he knows their status, so he opts out? Pretty sure that's a decision and he had 10 days after the World Series to make one

He was leaving regardless.

[Ham n Cheese]

He can't go to Boston, they won without him twice recently. Everyone would chant for Lowell if A-Rod ever struggled.

Cubs? Angels maybe? Dodgers? NFC where he could go. Didn't exactly expect him to be a Ranger last time either

[Aegdaien]

A-rod would not fit in with Boston. It would be the same as the Eagles signing TO. The organization just doesn't support people like him, it's much more about the team than the individual. I really hope Theo signs Lowell ASAP.

[Cadrid]

Taking A-Rod would be a huge waste of resources for Boston. I'm not sure where else he could go, but the Red Sox is a nonsensical destination.

[Duppin]

Do you have any support for this whole "A-Rod isn't a team player" hypothesis, or is that just repeating what ESPN tells you to think?

Oh, and I know you're all full of yourselves right now, but the rest of the world thinks it's pretty funny to say that the Red Sox are teh best team playerz ever while you have Manny Ramirez on the roster.

He's far more selfish of a player than A-Rod could ever be. Hell, A-Rod even moved from his natural position to avoid angering the holy Jeter.

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Duppin

Do you have any support for this whole "A-Rod isn't a team player" hypothesis, or is that just repeating what ESPN tells you to think?

Oh, and I know you're all full of yourselves right now, but the rest of the world thinks it's pretty funny to say that the Red Sox are teh best team playerz ever while you have Manny Ramirez on the roster.

He's far more selfish of a player than A-Rod could ever be. Hell, A-Rod even moved from his natural position to avoid angering the holy Jeter.

Him moving to third was part of the condition of the trade TYVM. As for Manny being selfish, it's not the right word. Manny is just fucking strange, but he put up the same numbers for what? 7 years in a row? Like I said, calling him selfish is not the right choice of words.

Also, he's not a team player because rather than LISTEN to the Yankees offer, he immediately opted out of what was arguably "his team". It would be the equivalent of Kobe Bryant jumping ship out of LA.

I don't believe the Yankees are in nearly as bad of shape as people say they are. Their rotation is young and solid and they've got a few young position players. They have a lot of holes that need to be filled or will need to be filled within 2-3 years, but this is still a top 4 team in the AL.

As I said, the AL title thing was a joke, apparently people don't know how to take them. And as for being high and mighty, we just won the world series. Last time I checked, that makes you the best team in baseball regardless. This team wasn't as good as the 04 team which had a better pen (but a better closer in Papelbon, although Foulke was absolutely perfect in the 04 postseason) and it was a better lineup from top to bottom.

So yes, get the sand out of your vagina and accept the fact that Boston won. Also accept that A-Rod (rather than take a deal that would of totaled 8 years and 250 mllion dollars), opted out for probably 10 years and 300 million. Yep, 2 years and 50 million dollars. If he was smart, he would of taken the Yankees money and stayed. I'm happy he's leaving because it makes the Yankees offense that less threatening.

Oh yeah, I hate ESPN. Buster Olney is a Yankee homer who only gets info right when it comes to the Yankees. Keith Law is a good guy mainly because he's an ex-baseball guy and a great scout of talent. Rob Neyer, likewise. As for their TV guys, Steve Phillips is a fucking idiot. There's a reason he's on TV and not running a team anymore. John Kruk isn't too unbearable, but I can only stand him in small doses. The rest of them are just east coast homers.

Like most people, I listen to mostly bloggers and reports from scouts, ex smart baseball guys, baseballamerica.com and baseballprospects.com . PECOTA is your friend.

[Duppin]

The only reason that I care about Boston winning is that it's going to push you past Yankee fans to being the most hated in baseball.

Oh, and selfish is absolutely the right word for Manny Ramirez, or have you forgotten all of his histrionics in past years? Fuck, it got to the point that he was put on WAIVERS.

It's fine though, really, I don't expect anything remotely realistic to come out of the mouth of any Red Sox fan for the next couple of months.

But trying to claim that A-Rod wouldn't be a good fit for the Red Sox because there's no room for players who don't put the team first is hilariously laughable on more than one level.

[Burf]

Originally Posted by Akileese

we just won the world series.

"We?" Are you on the roster?