Heard NYY/Choo agreed at 7/140. Then Boras asked to make it $143, $1M over Carl Crawford. Angered NYY, agreed with Beltran instead.
— CJ Nitkowski (@CJNitkowski) December 20, 2013
The Yankees have to be kidding me right now. The Yankees were willing to go seven years and $140 million on OBP King Shin Soo Choo and let him walk over $3 million? I can see ending a deal over years, see Robinson Cano and Omar Infante for great examples of letting guys go elsewhere for too many years, but not $3 million. The YES Network probably makes $3 million between the hours of midnight and 2:00 pm ET, obviously sarcasm but you get my point. The Yankees were angered because Scott Boras asked for $3 million more and instead turned their attention to Carlos Beltran and again this is after they had signed Jacoby Ellsbury. I don't get it, oh well. There is still time.
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This fits the pattern of Boras, specially with the Yankees! He keeps doing the same thing after a deal is done, he comes back with another amount he wants! Me thinks the old trick has had its day. It use to work because it is a simple ploy...he knows you want the player so, he will jack the price a bit more every time, figuring you will take it after you have gone that high with your offer! Really what is a $m or two at that stage of the game, well that also is simple...it is not the way one Honest person does business.
ReplyDeleteOne makes a deal and sticks to it, in the old days he could get away with it but, now days there is much more money involved and the $3m given to one player is $3m they don't have for another.
Besides, as far as I am concerned, Choo was a WANT not a NEED.
We have other NEEDS right now, we can use that money to address those needs!
I hear thing also, Mr. Nitkowski.........you heard what, from who ?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he heard it from the guy in the bagel store ? The guy pumping gas on Route 95 ?
He won't tell. Who cares, really ?
All of us do our homework. We read, search, and digest baseball. That line was not out there.
I think I've heard his name before. Meaningless.
I heard Choo wanted a Chevy Volt, and the Yankees were angered.
A-ROD....I have come full circle on Alex.
ReplyDeleteEveryone else seems to be getting a pass. So why not him ? Right, Big Popi...user. And the rest.
Useless to rehash this bowl of mashed crap. Again, meaningless. ( never used that word until tonight )
Bottom line, cowgirls....ALEX RODRIQUEZ, IS FAR, AND AWAY THE BEST OPTION OUT THERE.
NO OTHER INFIELDER ON THE MARKET COMES CLOSE TO HIM. DO YOU WANT TO WIN !
PENCIL IN OUR NEW LINE UP, WITH HIM IN IT...............DO YOU NOT SEE IT ?
Fix the pitching...Once more....FIX THE PITCHING ! The pitching will lead the Yankees out
of this darkness. Fix it.
uh oh this is how forgiveness starts...
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