[新聞] Scott Boras talks big bucks, but A-Rod lacks big hit

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原文網址: http://tinyurl.com/2gsktq 國內媒體對此文的報導僅供參考: http://www.ettoday.com/2007/11/12/341-2186002.htm Scott Boras talks big bucks, but A-Rod lacks big hit Mike Lupica Sunday, November 11th 2007, 10:02 AM It becomes clearer by the day that it is practically somebody's civic responsibility to pay Alex Rodriguez at least $30 million a year. Or so Scott Boras wants you to believe. If somebody doesn't pay him what he wants, that can't possibly be Boras' fault. Oh, no. It has to be the Yankees' fault, who in Boras' view are bad, bad, bad for walking away from A-Rod once he opted out of his contract during Game 4 of the World Series. Or it has to be baseball's fault. And if it isn't the Yankees' fault or Bud Selig's fault, then it must be dirty, filthy collusion that is keeping teams from falling all over themselves to throw money at Boras and A-Rod, help them set another world contract record. Sure. That word - collusion - was out there this past week, and of course it came from the Players Association. Why? Because that's what Boras wanted, and the Players Association always does what Boras wants. In the old days, it was guys like Donald Fehr and Gene Orza who thought they could scare baseball owners and muscle them anytime they wanted to. Those days are long gone. It's not bad enough for Fehr and Orza that they no longer run baseball. Now it looks as if Boras runs them. Maybe it's because he's the only one left who can still scare owners the way Fehr and Orza used to. Just maybe not this time around with A-Rod. Some general managers went on the record about why they weren't getting into the A-Rod sweepstakes. As soon as they did, you started to see stories in the newspapers about collusion. It couldn't be because their owners didn't think A-Rod was worth $30 million a year. It had to be baseball ganging up on poor Alex Rodriguez. You didn't need finger- printing experts to see Boras' hands all over this. "First Scott had to smear the Yankees for calling his bluff," one general manager said this past week. "Now he may have to smear everybody else who doesn't want to play ball with him." Boras is full of many things, numbers among them, and not just home run and RBI numbers. He tries to get everybody to believe that A-Rod is the Yankee who has done the most to cause this historic Yankee surge at the ticket windows while he has been here, as if he suddenly became bigger than the Yankee brand when he put on pinstripes. Boras also wants you to believe A-Rod is somehow the biggest ratings grabber on television this side of "American Idol." If you have been reading Bob Raissman's columns on this subject in the Daily News lately, you know A-Rod, American Idol, is another Boras pipe dream. Now understand: Boras eventually may find a (desperate) sucker, might be able to even get what the Yankees were willing to pay, which means a contract whose total value would have been more than $230 million over the next eight years. But if there is one thing that Boras seems to have badly miscalculated here - besides the current market - it is this: The popularity of his client. The old "iconic" thing Boras likes to talk about. I got an e-mail from a passionate Yankee fan last week, a lawyer who once dreamed of being a professional sportswriter, one who still follows the team as if he's covering it for a newspaper. And one of the things he pointed out was that since Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez, Scott Boras' guy, has come to the plate in the postseason with a total of 38 runners on base. And with those runners on base, A-Rod is 0-for-27. "Almost perfect," the guy wrote. "Oh-for-27. A no-hitter." So at a time when Joe Girardi wears No. 27 because the Yankees still are chasing what has become an increasingly elusive 27th World Series champion- ship, A-Rod's 27 is just as significant, although probably not one that Boras talks about very much with prospective suitors. This Yankee fan wrote: "The importance of that stat is that it makes concrete what I've been feeling about the guy for four years. I watched every single one of those 27at-bats, and each one was like a little stab in the gut. He's been torturing us for four straight years, in the only season that counts. How any team could sign him for $3million - let alone 30! - is simply beyond me, unless what you're looking for is a circus act (come see the amazing A-Rod break all regular-season records!), and don't care about winning championships. "I mean, don't you at least have to discount your offer by THE POSSIBILITY that that stat represents a real deficiency in his game? Are people insane?" Boras is counting on it. Again. He got Tom Hicks of the Rangers to pay $252 million last time around, and he wants somebody to pay at least $300 million this time around. He is counting - and counting, and counting - on somebody being willing to pay anything for the 300 more home runs Alex Rodriguez is supposed to hit and eventually pass Barry Bonds and break the all-time home run record. Outside of San Francisco, people never loved Bonds. Even now, even after the season Rodriguez just had, people here don't love him, at least not the way Boras wants them to. That's not collusion, it's just the way things are. It's like my Yankee guy says in that e-mail. A-Rod got to 27 as a Yankee. Just not the way he was supposed to. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 125.224.218.230 ※ 編輯: phchih 來自: 125.224.218.230 (11/12 15:52)