Brattain: Waterloo

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Brattain: Waterloo
Maury Maury posted 10/29/2007 from www.bizofbaseball.com [flag]
John Brattain of the Hardball Times and MSN Canada stops by to jab Scott Boras, Alex Rodriguez, and the Yankees a jab in the ribs. [link]

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The Biz of Baseball: Brattain: Waterloo
Published 10/29/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brattain: Waterloo "The Biz of Baseball is pleased to offer up this guest article from John Brattain on the A-Rod saga, with Scott Boras and the Yankees as key players.” I’m guessing Boras has a three-step plan regarding Rodriguez: 1) Secure the desired contract, the team is irrelevant--just get the money. 2) Sell A-Rod on what happened last time: Try the new city, if they compete fine, if not demand a trade to a contender. 3) Count on the signing team within three years to have a case of buyer’s remorse and would be willing to eat part of the deal a ...

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Published 10/31/2007 by John Brattain at The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort
... historic run of the Colorado RockiesIs A-Rod worth $30 million? Caveat emptorOthersThe Curse of the Moose (Baseball Prospectus)Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame (Baseball Prospectus)The Blue Jays' Lineup (Baseball Prospectus)More Mythmashing (Baseball Prospectus)Brattain: Not Out Of The Woods Yet (Biz of Sports)Waterloo (Biz of Baseball)A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Away...(The Baseball Analysts) ...

A-Rod is great, so is ... ?
Published 11/1/2007 by John Brattain at The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort
First things first, I have to make good on a threat made yesterday where I said I’d post my recent articles on A-Rod’s opt out. I have actually written six (three very recently, and three over the last year), and I doubt I’ll stop there. Anyway, from most recent on down: ...

Apropos of absolutely nothing...
Published 11/10/2007 by John Brattain at The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort
... column it was easy for a drooling knuckle-dragger like myself to point out the flaws in Boras’s reasoning so I can’t see how other clubs cannot see it as well. This ain’t 2000 and it’s not Alex Rodriguez circa 2000 where the sky was the limit. In 2007 A-Rod has a lot of baggage, a poor post season reputation, has been merely mortal in two of the last four seasons finishing 36th and 26th in OPS (in 2004 and 2006) and will be 33 come July. I hope this is Scott Boras’s personal Waterloo . Best Regards John

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Well Scott Boras used game 4 of the Wolrd Series to announce that Mrs Rod would opt out of her contract with the Yankees. As a Yankee fan I say thank you bitch, now go play for the Red Sox so you can suck up their post season mojo. In case your new team isn’t able to do the research on just how bad you were in the post season with the Yankees, I did it for them:
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