[新聞] With Contract in Hand, Rodriguez Knocks Boras

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With Contract in Hand, Rodriguez Knocks Boras

By TYLER KEPNER

Published: December 14, 2007

Alex Rodriguez’s decision to opt out of his contract partly upstaged the
final game of the World Series. When Rodriguez’s 10-year, $275 million
Yankees contract was finalized Thursday, it happened on another day of big
news.

The release of the former Senator George J. Mitchell’s report on steroids
coincided with the formal announcement of Rodriguez’s new deal, the richest
in baseball history. Rodriguez agreed to the framework about a month ago, so
his teleconference with reporters was anticlimactic.

But it was illuminating. Rodriguez severely criticized his longtime agent,
Scott Boras, for the handling of his opt-out, and blamed himself for nearly
losing his chance to return to the Yankees.

“The whole thing was a mistake,” Rodriguez said. “It was a huge debacle.
For me, it was very stressful. It was a very humbling experience. I knew what
I wanted from Day 1. The mistake I made was I should have called Hank and Hal
from the get-go, and I didn’t do that. I blame me.”

Rodriguez said Boras told him before he opted out that the Yankees had no
interest in re-signing him. It was a curious claim because the day Boras
exercised the opt-out, several newspapers reported the basic parameters of
the offer the Yankees hoped to make. Rodriguez acknowledged he was puzzled by
what he said Boras had told him.

“The whole thing didn’t feel right,” Rodriguez said, adding that several
Yankees executives had told him they wanted him back. “I felt all along
there was mutual interest and great respect from both ends. I always thought
the negotiation was going to be simple and wasn’t going to take a lot of
time. So when I was getting that information, it was very surprising and
upsetting and hurtful.”

Reached by telephone yesterday, Boras offered no comment, saying that his
conversations with Rodriguez would remain private. But Boras has not disputed
the idea that Rodriguez reached out to Hank and Hal Steinbrenner without him,
an action that was instrumental in making a deal.

Boras did help negotiate the bonus package that will push Rodriguez’s
compensation to $314 million — including deferred money from his last
contract — if he passes Barry Bonds’s career home run record. Rodriguez
said he would retain Boras as his agent, but he said he had told Boras he was
angry with him and did not offer him a strong endorsement.

“At the end of my deal, I’m going to be 42 years old; I don’t think
there’s going to be any more baseball for me,” Rodriguez said. “At this
point, it’s all academic.”

Rodriguez, 32, pointed out that he has known Boras half his life and said he
appreciated what Boras had done for him. He said their policy had always been
for Rodriguez to play and for Boras to negotiate, and neither interfered much
with the other’s area of expertise.

This time, though, Rodriguez said he wished he had taken more control of the
negotiation by speaking with the Steinbrenners before opting out, instead of
after.

“I made mistakes,” Rodriguez said. “I mean, Scott works for me. So at the
end of the day, when it comes to the World Series, when it comes to opting
out, when it comes to all the big mistakes, I’ve got to look in the mirror
and take that bullet. If I had to do it again, I would have called Hank from
Day 1 and negotiated the contract myself.”

Rodriguez called Hank Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ senior vice president, a
day or so after opting out, and their conversation was brief. Through an
intermediary at Goldman Sachs, Rodriguez re-established a connection with
Steinbrenner and soon returned to a team he said he never wanted to leave.

“I’m as proud of that phone call as I am of my M.V.P. season,” Rodriguez
said.

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→ godblesssam:.....
推 CGary:舉手: Boras 獲勝...........
推 FENOR:嘖嘖，這份合約頂多是沒像BORAS當初豪笅的那麼誇張
→ FENOR:不過也算是有達到目標吧，所以BORAS應該是贏了
推 alwaysblue:翻譯：http://0rz.tw/123re　
推 chenjo:不過Boras被解雇.而且是AROD親自談的.這樣算Boras輸吧
推 CGary:樓上:Rodriguez said he would retain Boras as his agent
→ CGary:唱唱雙簧賺點公關吧了,a-rod不是這麼蠢的人,不太可能是Boras
推 oukeheo:其實無所謂輸贏 吸血鬼丟了面子拿到裡子 正負差堪相抵吧
→ CGary:一個人搞出來的,但是他不幫老闆背背黑鍋怎麼行？他老闆可是
→ CGary:給了不少錢的耶XD
推 cardfat:BORAS當初豪洨的360M/12y現在->305M/10y 怎麼看都他贏
推 siliver:算是都有顧到大家面子的結果~~~~
推 Diaw0803:講誰贏誰輸有意義嗎？　科科
推 krara:真正的贏家是Rangers
推 kenro:推樓上...條子真的爽翻天了  現在可以把省下的錢來採購一下
推 scal:AROD講謊話的能力和他季後賽的打擊能力不相上下
→ Subzero0000:條子應該拿個100萬出來請a肉吃酒池肉林大餐
→ sunchen0201:現在還在講條子...
推 coolark:Rangers...
推 siliver:其實條子只是少輸一點而已吧.....他真的被洋基削慘了:p
推 Nasty:阿肉真的融入洋基了 他已經知道怎麼嘴巴講屁話了 XS
→ Nasty:哈
推 adaw:阿肉說謊的本事真夠差
推 HwaJet: 說謊，不能太「誇張」；圓謊，不能太「緊張」。
推 aultra:就是周瑜打黃蓋的故事嘛 搞不好還是Boras寫的腳本咧
→ aultra:經紀人被罵或背黑鍋正常的 不然幹嘛給他佣金 做戲而且啦
推 jackoop:罵他的人還差那幾個嗎? 他越被罵代表他賺愈多