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Jun 11, 2007 12:09:47 GMT -5
Post by sinctybldh on Jun 11, 2007 12:09:47 GMT -5
I really wish Cashman would start negotiations on a new contract. Why risk losing your best player? It makes no sense to me.
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Jun 11, 2007 14:35:22 GMT -5
Post by mpep on Jun 11, 2007 14:35:22 GMT -5
I agree, tho' I really don't think Arod's going anywhere. I think what happened to Mantle in 1961 is what's happening to Arod: a majority of fans began to realize that he was a once in a lifetime player who played as often and as hard as he could. While there's no Roger Maris to draw the fans ire, the realization that we'd be out of the race by now if not for Arod has turned the tide.
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Jun 11, 2007 16:29:45 GMT -5
Post by David Goodman on Jun 11, 2007 16:29:45 GMT -5
Boras will take it to the deadline, but an extension will get done. Plenty of time once the season ends after our parade. And there will be a parade.
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Jun 14, 2007 11:34:04 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jun 14, 2007 11:34:04 GMT -5
A-Rod shopping for new digs Posted: Thursday June 14, 2007 10:07AM ET Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez is eying apartments in a swanky upper East Side building featuring a $16 million penthouse big enough for his wife, child - and friends, real estate sources told the Daily News.--New York Daily News
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Jun 14, 2007 15:41:17 GMT -5
Post by HomerSimpson on Jun 14, 2007 15:41:17 GMT -5
B..bb..but...he's opting out...
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Jun 14, 2007 16:58:21 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jun 14, 2007 16:58:21 GMT -5
I think it's pretty clear from how mad George got at Joe for criticizing ARod over the Toronto whoop that they have been in back channel negotiations with him.
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Jun 17, 2007 13:28:22 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jun 17, 2007 13:28:22 GMT -5
Yanks' 3B plan if A-Rod bolts Posted: Sunday June 17, 2007 11:58AM ET Either Brian Cashman will hunker down for a marathon negotiating war with Alex Rodriguez's agent Scott Boras, or begin the hopeless search for another third baseman. Or there's one alternative -- Florida's Miguel Cabrera -- but it remains to be seen whether Cashman has the guts to trade Phil Hughes and Robby Cano, both of whom would have to go in such a mega-swap.--Bergen Record
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Jun 18, 2007 13:02:32 GMT -5
Post by sinctybldh on Jun 18, 2007 13:02:32 GMT -5
Ryan (chico,ca): The Giants get rid of everybody and anybody in order to get younger so they can start rebuilding. This is getting ridiculous.
Buster Olney: (1:51 PM ET ) Ryan: Was up in Fenway over the weekend and there is a lot of thought with the Giants that they may make a very hard run at A-Rod, when/if he opts out of his contract (which is almost a sure thing, considering the monster year he is having... he's going to get a deal for something in the range of 8 years, $200-240 million from somebody...) Giants don't have a lot of good young players in their system, however, according to evaluators with other teams. Remember, that's why the Red Sox found it so tough to talk trade with the Giants about Ramirez during the off-season -- they just didn't find a lot of inspiring stuff in the way of position players...
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Jun 18, 2007 13:03:52 GMT -5
Post by sinctybldh on Jun 18, 2007 13:03:52 GMT -5
mike (vermont): buster, loved your book on the downfall of the yankeedynasty. if arod opts out of his contract, where do the yanks look to find a 3B? would they look to cabrera if the marlins dont sign him or would they move cano??
Buster Olney: (1:33 PM ET ) Mike: Thanks. Yankees have talked internally about moving Cano to third if A-Rod leaves, and that way, they can go find a second baseman, which are more plentiful than third baseman. And I would expect the Yankees to pursue one of the FA center fielders... We'll see which guy that turns out to be.
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Jun 18, 2007 13:18:43 GMT -5
Post by David Goodman on Jun 18, 2007 13:18:43 GMT -5
Olney is an idiot. Everyone at ESPN is pushing A-Rod to leave. He isn't going anywhere.
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Jul 3, 2007 10:12:45 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 3, 2007 10:12:45 GMT -5
A-Rod won't discuss wife's vulgar T Posted: Tuesday July 03, 2007 07:47AM ET Alex Rodriguez refused to discuss the X-rated T-shirt his missus, Cynthia, was photographed wearing in the box seats at the Stadium Sunday. While acknowledging the Yankees have a strict policy about vulgarity, either worn or displayed, at the Stadium, GM Brian Cashman said he had spoken to both Rodriguez and Cynthia but refused to go any further.--New York Daily News
A-Rod won't waive no-trade clause Posted: Tuesday July 03, 2007 10:29AM ET If the Yanks approach Alex Rodriguez and asked if he would consider waiving his no-trade clause, promising to send him to a large-market contender in exchange for blue-chip prospects. Would A-Rod say yes? No chance, he said. "It's not even a temptation," Rodriguez repeated. Injuries aside, A-Rod is determined to let the July 31 trading deadline come and go, knowing that opting out of his Yankee contract this off-season will deliver him to the team of his choosing (probably the Angels) at whatever price he desires (figure an eight-year $200 million package).--Bergen Record
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Jul 3, 2007 16:17:33 GMT -5
Post by daveinbayonne on Jul 3, 2007 16:17:33 GMT -5
ARod is playing tonight. What a warrior!
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Jul 4, 2007 15:05:22 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jul 4, 2007 15:05:22 GMT -5
bit of a slump for the superstar, I hope his hammy is okay.
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Jul 7, 2007 1:03:06 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 7, 2007 1:03:06 GMT -5
A-Rod and Me TIMOTHY EGAN Published: July 7, 2007
The 10-year-old girl waited in line two hours for the most gifted man in baseball, Alex Rodriguez, to sign the children’s book he had just written. When at last she got his autograph, my daughter hurried home and read every word — taking the lessons to heart.
It was called, “Hit a Grand Slam!” For a man now so reviled in many parts of the baseball world, his life story was sympathetic and sad, Dickensian with a Latin twist. A-Rod talked about throwing up on the school bus, getting dumped by the first girl he fell for and the father who walked out on them.
“Dad’s coming back, you’ll see,” he said to his sister, but Dad never came back. “I still can’t understand how a parent could abandon a family.”
By book’s end, he is rich beyond measure, the best young player in the game, and has a best friend for life, Derek Jeter. But A-Rod tells children that life is not about money or fame.
“It’s not all about the Benjamins,” he sums up. It’s about friendship, character, playing honorably. “If an injury suddenly ends my career tomorrow, I want people to like me for what I have inside.”
My daughter still has her A-Rod poster up in the now-empty bedroom, dating to his days as a Seattle Mariner. But nearly 10 years later, we are having trouble fitting A-Rod into the dissonant home we keep in our hearts for star athletes. Try as we might, it’s hard to separate the player on the plasma screen from the baseball card next to the kid’s pillow.
Tuesday is baseball’s All-Star Game, and the leading vote-getter from fans was Rodriguez, the Yankees’ third baseman. He’s having a year for the ages, setting an American League record for the most home runs in April, and leading all of baseball in homers. And in last night’s win, his home run tied him with Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff on baseball’s career list.
But A-Rod’s character has never looked more haunted. Everyone knows politicians are scum and film stars are ditzy. As for athletes, well — children, in any case, still expect something more.
And as much as A-Rod now begs for his privacy, it’s his fault that we got involved with him. He invited us, and our kids, to like him for what he has inside. He asked us to look at him as a man, not a hitting machine.
At least Barry Bonds said people should not hold him up as a role model. Give him credit for that. But his advice is too late for all the 15-year-olds buying vitamin “supplements” to get ripped like Barry, the human asterisk.
In less than a decade, Rodriguez has gone from A-Rod to Pay-Rod to A-Fraud to Stray-Rod. Each dimension downward came with a story, a character twist, that may outlive the numbers.
As the Mariner who made the major leagues before his 19th birthday, he looked as if he had been created by Michelangelo. Coaching Little League, I told my kids to watch him move, to emulate his sweet swing, and to listen to what he said off the field.
A lasting image for Mariner fans was A-Rod with his arm around a crying Joey Cora after the amazing 1995 season ended just short of a World Series bid. It began to unravel when Pay-Rod emerged. He signed the richest contract in baseball, and left Seattle for — arrgghhh! — Texas. Turned out, it was about the Benjamins.
With the Yankees, all it took were a couple of Bush League plays — swatting a ball out of a pitcher’s mitt at first base, yelling at opposing infielders under a fly ball — for A-Fraud to surface.
More troubling was the breakdown of his friendship with Jeter, the Yankees’ shortstop and designated Good Guy, and the strange episode with the stripper, captured in the tabloid headline, “Stray-Rod.” He’s married, of course, and is a father as well.
In that children’s book, he said having a friend like Jeter, was “more valuable than gold.” An athlete can survive crass acts. Ted Williams spit on Red Sox fans, several times, but more people remember that he left the game to serve as a fighter pilot.
I’ll leave it to A-Rod’s therapist, whom he credits with helping him immensely, to sort his demons. But please — no more children’s books, no more invitations to share the soul-ride.
Athletes build their legends for marketing purposes; it comes with collateral damage, on both sides.
Timothy Egan, a former Seattle correspondent for The Times and the author of “The Worst Hard Time,” is a guest columnist.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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Jul 7, 2007 8:59:29 GMT -5
Post by mpep on Jul 7, 2007 8:59:29 GMT -5
Timothy Egan joins the many writers who hold Arod to a higher standard than any human could possibly keep. Self-righteous bile like this may make the writer feel better, but it only shows his envy-something his daughter can probably see first hand.
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Jul 7, 2007 19:34:46 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 7, 2007 19:34:46 GMT -5
Rangers owner wants A-Rod back? Posted: Saturday July 07, 2007 08:59AM ET According to a major league source, Rangers owner Tom Hicks has expressed interest in reacquiring Alex Rodriguez, with a willingness to put a 10-year contract on the table. Insiders say Hicks, on the rebound from some early millennium financial woes, wouldn't mind getting some return on the contract he still is partly responsible for financially.--Bergen Record
A-Rod fuels SoCal speculation Posted: Saturday July 07, 2007 09:03AM ET Alex Rodriguez can opt out of his contract after this season, and there are already rumors he will sign with the Angels, speculation Rodriguez may have fueled when he seemed to go out of his way to praise the opponent Friday night.--Los Angeles Times
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Jul 8, 2007 11:08:25 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jul 8, 2007 11:08:25 GMT -5
I hope the Yankees tag some of these teams who are tampering.
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Jul 8, 2007 16:47:49 GMT -5
Post by The Other Mike T. on Jul 8, 2007 16:47:49 GMT -5
Here's my not-so-bold prediction: A-Rod gets something like a 6-year, 150M extention, gets a bunch of rings, and finishes with 800+ HRs as the best player to ever play the game.
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Jul 8, 2007 19:49:44 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jul 8, 2007 19:49:44 GMT -5
Could be.
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Jul 10, 2007 12:05:49 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 10, 2007 12:05:49 GMT -5
Seattle sleeper in A-Rod chase? Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2007 07:55AM ET Some believe Alex Rodriguez is gone. One executive thinks he'll stay in New York. One GM mentioned Seattle as a sleeper candidate. The Yankees say they want him back, and A-Rod stands by what he said in March about staying, too. But his agent, Scott Boras, has a reputation for convincing clients that the free-agent years are too valuable to ignore. One agent estimated that Rodriguez could get "$30 million per year or close, especially after the year he's having."--New York Daily News
A-Rod: Playing in New York is difficult Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2007 06:48AM ET Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees would not discuss his future, which could easily include a different baseball address in 2008. But Rodriguez discussed his past yesterday, acknowledging that acclimating to playing in New York has been difficult. When Rodriguez was asked what he meant by banging his head into the wall, he said: "It takes people a year or two years to get used to New York. For me, it's taken three or four years. You tried things one way and then you figure out this way is a little more comfortable."--New York Times
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Jul 10, 2007 13:03:31 GMT -5
Post by sinctybldh on Jul 10, 2007 13:03:31 GMT -5
ON Dan Patrick show they are spending a whole half hour talking about how he is leaving NY. Ricky Reilly from SI was like why should Arod go through all the crap in NY. He will be an Angel or Giant according to him.
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Jul 10, 2007 13:04:39 GMT -5
Post by sinctybldh on Jul 10, 2007 13:04:39 GMT -5
I am not as confident as some of you guys that he will be staying in NY. I think its 50/50 and that scares the hell out of me.
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Jul 10, 2007 19:37:24 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jul 10, 2007 19:37:24 GMT -5
Yanks won't let him leave. Yanks have a new stadium and a cable TV network and the piece of shit Giants and Angels can't compete with that.
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Jul 10, 2007 20:06:20 GMT -5
Post by michael123 on Jul 10, 2007 20:06:20 GMT -5
All day they are talking about A-Rod leaving, even referring to the Daily News article that had odds. The ESPN shills are beyond annoying.
New stadium, home-run record, best player in the game. Sure the Yanks will let him go..
I don't think so Buster.
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Jul 11, 2007 13:30:05 GMT -5
Post by philinla on Jul 11, 2007 13:30:05 GMT -5
Heyman says the Yanks are now considering an extension.
The truth is they've been working on one.
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Jul 11, 2007 16:44:58 GMT -5
Post by michael123 on Jul 11, 2007 16:44:58 GMT -5
This is good news, and maybe those shills will finally realize we are not letting him leave.
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Jul 11, 2007 20:31:26 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 11, 2007 20:31:26 GMT -5
You have to wonder if the ESPN personnel/writers ever talk to each other? ________________________________________ Yanks buck tradition to try and keep A-Rod Report: N.Y. to negotiate contract extension with Rodriguez during season MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: 4:23 p.m. ET July 11, 2007 The New York Yankees are going against tradition to keep Alex Rodriguez in pinstripes. The Yankees traditionally don't negotiate during the season, but will work with their All-Star third baseman on a contract extension, ESPN.com reported. The biggest sticking point, ESPN reported, is that Rodriguez agree not to opt out of his current contract after the season and agree to add any extension to the current contract, which expires after the 2010 season. Analysts have been speculating that Rodriguez would opt out of his contract at season's end to test the free agent market. About $81 million of the current contract is paid by the Texas Rangers, which was part of the trade that brought Rodriguez to New York. Texas was the team that originally signed Rodriguez to a 10-year, $252 million contract after the 2000 season. Rodriguez leads the major leagues at the All-Star break with 30 home runs and 86 RBIs and has a .317 average. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19716021/
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Jul 12, 2007 16:27:02 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 12, 2007 16:27:02 GMT -5
Who is baseball's $30 million man? Posted: Thursday July 12, 2007 06:01AM ET Alex Rodriguez is assured of soon becoming the first-ever $30 million-a-year baseball player. His agent, Scott Boras, yesterday told The Post that even if Rodriguez does not opt out of his contract after the season, stipulations exist in the pact that all but guarantee that Rodriguez's salary will climb to a minimum of $32 million for both the 2009 and 2010 seasons.--New York Post
Yankees chasing A-Rod extension Posted: Thursday July 12, 2007 07:53AM ET The Yankees, in a departure from their customary practice of not conducting in-season negotiations, want to schedule a meeting with Alex Rodriguez's agent in the next few weeks to discuss a possible contract extension that would keep the major leagues' home run and RBI leader in pinstripes, according to a person with knowledge of the Bombers' thinking.--New York Daily News
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Jul 14, 2007 12:50:36 GMT -5
Post by jumbo on Jul 14, 2007 12:50:36 GMT -5
Red Sox to make run at A-Rod Posted: Saturday July 14, 2007 07:53AM ET The Yankees have told A-Rod and his agent, Scott Boras, that they have no plans to become part of the bidding process if Rodriguez elects to become a free agent, but multiple baseball sources believe the Red Sox will make a huge push to add the two-time American League MVP if he becomes available.--New York Daily News
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Jul 14, 2007 15:13:29 GMT -5
Post by mpep on Jul 14, 2007 15:13:29 GMT -5
Who is "the Yankees" that told Boras that? If they did, they're really stupid. Why say something like that? If they don't get into the "bidding process" they're idiots.
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