tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post116586927623865933..comments2024-03-28T07:19:18.670-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: Matsuzaka Meeting With Media Tonightallanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165894888407420242006-12-11T19:41:00.000-08:002006-12-11T19:41:00.000-08:00Frustrated Sox officials were privately wondering ...<I>Frustrated Sox officials were privately wondering whether the player was aware that Boras so far had not made a counter-offer." ... From the looks of it, [Boston's] only chance may be if [Matsuzaka] stands up to Boras.</I><BR/><BR/>This is the usual blather: make the player look stupid, make the agent look like a villian taking advantage of the poor sap. It happens every time.<BR/><BR/>A few threads ago when I mentioned Michael Kay bashing JD Drew? This was one of Kay's themes at the time, how Drew was being taken advantage of by his greedy agent and greedy mother. Bernie Williams, too, was supposedly led down the greedy garden path by his agent. (A few dozen other examples spring to mind, but I'll control myself.) <BR/><BR/>As if the agent isn't working <I>for</I> and <I>with</I> the player? <BR/><BR/>In this case, there's the extra twist of the player speaking a different language, so it's even easier to paint Boras as a con man and Dice as his unwitting victim.<BR/><BR/>It's a tad transparent.laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165894566969673532006-12-11T19:36:00.000-08:002006-12-11T19:36:00.000-08:00No faith in them getting anything done? Of course ...No faith in them getting anything done? Of course they'll get it done. This is all part of the show.laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165893405610752562006-12-11T19:16:00.000-08:002006-12-11T19:16:00.000-08:00I have no faith in them getting anything done. I ...I have no faith in them getting anything done. I think that Boras feels like Matsuzaka is another Curt Flood and he plans on destroying the posting system. The Sox are not going to go over 12 mil a year for an unproven pitcher and Boras wants 18 to 20.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165881401142391422006-12-11T15:56:00.000-08:002006-12-11T15:56:00.000-08:00Heh, the notion that Seibu's failure to land the p...Heh, the notion that Seibu's failure to land the posting fee has tax income implications for the Japanese government is almost too funny to be true.Zenslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040836002694584468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165872006599873772006-12-11T13:20:00.000-08:002006-12-11T13:20:00.000-08:00This'll all just go into the book, "What Really Ha...This'll all just go into the book, "What Really Happpened in Red Sox Nation a Few Years Ago, Which We Knew at the Time, But Waited To Tell You So We Could Sell Copies of This Book," to be re-written every few years.Jerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448619048422750447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1165871627205082502006-12-11T13:13:00.000-08:002006-12-11T13:13:00.000-08:00Thanks to SoSH and ESPN, some perspective from Jap...Thanks to SoSH and ESPN, some perspective from Japan:<BR/><BR/>http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/columns/story?id=2693833Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10275164807141705059noreply@blogger.com