Because I don't hate Scott Boras. Actually I like him. A lot. I would much rather that the big piles of money go to the players than into the pockets of owners. Scott Boras is brilliant at finding the leverage labor and exploiting it. The fact that the owners squirm and sputter and complain and try to collude and find/create loopholes to defeat him so the working man loses makes him a great labor-rights attorney. Never mind that "the working man" in this particular scenario makes millions of dollars a year. It's labor versus capital once again. Workers of the world unite and throw off the chains of economic repression! Or something like that...
I choose to hate the owners' greed, players' greed and Scott Boras altogether. And forget the 'nevermind' with these 'working men' making millions here because the true working men are the ones who will be spending an extra XX% on their tickets next season because the team's owner was dumb and decided to pickup A-Rod at $35 million/yr for the next 10 years and wants to reap immediate benefits. This is how I see it: imagine this is 'Lord of the Rings 2 Towers' and the old puppet King Theoden (MLB players) is being whispered the wrong advice by that Wormtongue character (Scott Boras). Theoden (the players) is incapable of independent thought because he's in a magic spell (of greed) which is making him ruin his own kingdom (game of baseball) by following Wormtongue's evil advice. I'm just wondering who's going to play the part of Gandalf and knock Theoden out of his spell and back to his senses. I wish it were the team owners who refuse to think that A-Rod at $35 mill/yr is a good deal and so don't offer him that; but I'm sure there's a sucker there within the owner bunch.
So you don't think some pencil-necked pencil pusher has sharpened his... uh... pencil, and figured out that Alex Rodriguez, in some markets, brings in more than $35 mill in added revenues per year? And if he doesn't bring in quite that much, having A-Rod on your squad increases your organization's chance of making the big revenue playoffs by XX%, which increases fat money revenues by millions? Plus, you're right, they probably figure AT THE LEAST the they can raise ticket costs enough to ensure that they won't lose money. But if people are willing to pay the extra loot then isn't that free markets at work with the substantial extra costs being passed onto the... uh... working man? Okay, that working man thing isn't working. But still, the players are labor and the owners are management. Stick it to the man, I tell you! And even though he makes more money than the state of Kansas, A-Rod ain't The Man. He's just Richie Rich with an annoyingly effective agent.
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What about Scott Boras don't you like?
Because I don't hate Scott Boras. Actually I like him. A lot. I would much rather that the big piles of money go to the players than into the pockets of owners. Scott Boras is brilliant at finding the leverage labor and exploiting it. The fact that the owners squirm and sputter and complain and try to collude and find/create loopholes to defeat him so the working man loses makes him a great labor-rights attorney. Never mind that "the working man" in this particular scenario makes millions of dollars a year. It's labor versus capital once again. Workers of the world unite and throw off the chains of economic repression! Or something like that...
I choose to hate the owners' greed, players' greed and Scott Boras altogether. And forget the 'nevermind' with these 'working men' making millions here because the true working men are the ones who will be spending an extra XX% on their tickets next season because the team's owner was dumb and decided to pickup A-Rod at $35 million/yr for the next 10 years and wants to reap immediate benefits.
This is how I see it: imagine this is 'Lord of the Rings 2 Towers' and the old puppet King Theoden (MLB players) is being whispered the wrong advice by that Wormtongue character (Scott Boras). Theoden (the players) is incapable of independent thought because he's in a magic spell (of greed) which is making him ruin his own kingdom (game of baseball) by following Wormtongue's evil advice.
I'm just wondering who's going to play the part of Gandalf and knock Theoden out of his spell and back to his senses. I wish it were the team owners who refuse to think that A-Rod at $35 mill/yr is a good deal and so don't offer him that; but I'm sure there's a sucker there within the owner bunch.
So you don't think some pencil-necked pencil pusher has sharpened his... uh... pencil, and figured out that Alex Rodriguez, in some markets, brings in more than $35 mill in added revenues per year? And if he doesn't bring in quite that much, having A-Rod on your squad increases your organization's chance of making the big revenue playoffs by XX%, which increases fat money revenues by millions? Plus, you're right, they probably figure AT THE LEAST the they can raise ticket costs enough to ensure that they won't lose money. But if people are willing to pay the extra loot then isn't that free markets at work with the substantial extra costs being passed onto the... uh... working man? Okay, that working man thing isn't working. But still, the players are labor and the owners are management. Stick it to the man, I tell you! And even though he makes more money than the state of Kansas, A-Rod ain't The Man. He's just Richie Rich with an annoyingly effective agent.
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