Hot, hot stove!
It's been so great to tune into ESPN this week and hear some baseball news! And big news it was this week. The Red Sox are high bidder on Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. They basically paid $51.11 million to have the right to negotiate with his old Japanese team and purchase his contract. I love that extra one at the end - did they think they were bidding on a "Price is Right" showcase?!
So, now the hard part: negotiating with that minion of the devil, Scott Boras. I truly despise that man - he's the sports agent who has squeezed way too much money out of way too many teams, the Sox included. There's a part of me that hopes this is an elaborate scheme to screw Boras once and for all. If the Sox and Matsuzaka can't reach a deal in 30 days, Mats has to go back to Japan and play and no one gets him. No one. Boras gets nothing. And the Sox don't have to pay that 51 million. Of course, he'll try posting again next year - and the Yankees will probably bid $100 million.
On the other hand, if the early reports on this guy are acurate, we could have an AWESOME starting rotation. Matsuzaka (guess I'm going to have to learn how to spell that, although I never did conquer Miienatkjda - you know, the ball stealer), Beckett, Schilling, Wakefield, Papelbon - with Crazy Man Tavarez lurking around. Woo.
What is it - about 93 days now til pitchers and catchers report??
posted by Beth at 8:34 PM
1 Comments:
The first thing I did after the Nomar trade was learn to spell Mientkiewicz. ^_^
I am elated that we bid so enthusiastically for Matsuzaka. ("we," hee--like it's my money!) And this is actually a situation where Boras has as little leverage as he'll ever have. No mysterious phantom bidders to drive the price up! Seibu needs this to happen (to the point where *cough* some of that $51 mil might change hands...), Matsuzaka wants it to happen, MLB wants it to happen, the Sox want it to happen. Boras may try to get as short a deal as possible, but he's going to have to work something out.
As far as the .1 million... if it wasn't to even out a bid in yen, I figured it would be like ebay. I always bid $XX.56 or $XX.33, personally!
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