Comments on: So Scott Boras takes yet another client into Free Agency. Why are we still surprised?

By: Pepe

Pepe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:01:52 +0000

4 years, 40 million. That’s the deal Varitek took, and that’s the same deal that fellow Boras client Johnny Damon walked away from.

I’m curious who Johnny is feeling about his deal right now. I wonder if being on a team in complete disarray is worth $3 million a year.
I hope Scott Boras isn’t Mike Lowell’s agent!

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:22 +0000

Pepe, I know.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:49:17 +0000

4 years, 40 million. That’s the deal Varitek took, and that’s the same deal that fellow Boras client Johnny Damon walked away from. I have no doubt that Tek could have gotten more on the open market, but Jason Varitek knows that there’s more to life than money. Will A-Rod *ever* realize that?

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By: Pepe

Pepe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:48:15 +0000

After the game on ESPN, Peter Gammons pointed out that A-Rod has never won a championship and commenting on the lack of class of making his announcement in the middle of game 4, Gammons added, “and maybe there’s a reason why…”

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By: Paul Moro

Paul Moro — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:37:51 +0000

To be fair, Varitek got $40million out of the deal. It’s not like he signed for a mere pittance.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:33:56 +0000

Red “C” on his jersey, two World Series rings, a wife that doesn’t wear vulgar t-shirts in public, no frolicking with strippers, no cheap shots running the basepaths (A-Rod already has three well-known ones by my count), the respect of everyone in the game, and so much heart that he still gets teary-eyed during on-the-field interviews. Plus, I like the new beard. I would take Varitek’s knotty thighs over A-Rod’s aforementioned hamstrings any day of the week.

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By: Nick Kapur

Nick Kapur — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:23:09 +0000

He also has three times the thighs that A-Rod has, although A-Rod has been catching up of late…

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:13:46 +0000

Samlang, you are so right. Varitek is everything A-Rod has never been. Alex can have his gaudy stats, because Varitek has everything else. Varitek is three times the man A-Rod could ever hope of being.

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By: samlang

samlang — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:05:42 +0000

Tek signed with the Sox without testing the waters. Boras advised against it but accepted Tek’s decision.

A-Rod, not Boras, is the one who made the choice. He was not duped. This is who he is.

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By: Doogan

Doogan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:28:28 +0000

Just goes to show why Boras is such a great agent and a terrible human. He was just waiting for the 7th inning of the Sox series clinching game to leak that news. And shame on Fox for taking the bait. Red Sox fans are two innings away from celebrating their 2nd title in the last 90 years or so, and Fox is talking about the Yankees? Joe Buck says, “We’re going to keep Ken Rosenfeld here and talk to him throughout the inning when appropriate”. How is that ever ‘appropriate’?

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