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For $350 million, you too can own an A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 by Ben K. at River Ave. Blues
... Buster Olney, the official ESPN writer of River Ave. Blues, has a report that states something mind-boggling: A-Rod wasn’t going to even meet with Yankee officials if they didn’t start their contract extension offer at $350 million. The Yanks were initially willing to go up to about $250 million for the next eight years and fell $100 million short of Scott Boras’ insane demands. ...

350 to Yuma, er Bronx
Published 11/2/2007 by Mantlemurcer at My Pinstripes
According to ESPN's Buster Olney, Alex Rodriguez would not meet with the Yankees, prior to opting out, unless they would were prepared to offer him a deal that was, at a minimum, 350 mill.The Yankees may have leaked the story out to try to take away from the Joe Torre fiasco. Smart move if that's the case.Source

Report: A-Rod to Yankees: $350 mil or bust
Published 11/2/2007 by Tony Gicas at Bronx Liaison
... Before opting out, Alex Rodriguez informed the Yankee he would require a guaranteed contract of $350 million in order for the Yankees to earn the right to retain his services, ESPN reporter Buster Olney said. Apparently Daisuke Matsuzaka's posting fee ain't got jack on A-Rod. Boston needed 50+ million to talk to Matsuzaka, but the Yankees needed SEVEN times that to keep Rodriguez in pinstripes. Scott Boras has taught Alex well. One can only hope Rodriguez rots in a Giants uniform for the next decade. Maybe then he will have learned his lesson. ...

A-Rod wants $350M? Boras might’ve finally over-bluffed on this one (I hope)
Published 11/2/2007 by Tim Kawakami at Kawakami
... something is preventing me–never mind–you probably won’t even see this post if our site is down). I guess I was monstrously low when I tabbed the Giants’ best potential semi-wise offer to Alex Rodriguez at six years, $162M. ESPN’s Buster Olney reports that A-Rod and his agent Scott Boras knew that the Yankees were going to offer them a package that would’ve totaled $230M over eight years (his old deal plus a new extension), and they wouldn’t even take a meeting for it. They wanted something like $350M . And that… folks… is INSANITY. Now, I know, baseball people always assume ...

Yankees Pick Up Abreu Option
Published 11/2/2007 by attackgerbil at YFSF
... Buster Olney reports that the Yankees and Rodriguez were not that far apart in what they were to offer vs. what he was expecting: the club was only a bit over $100 Meeleeon Dollars light. ...

Mets Now My Fav To Ink A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
From Buster Olney - Before Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yankees earlier this week, the team was told that it would not be able to meet with the third baseman unless it presented an offer of at least $350 million, sources say. The Yankees had hoped to meet with Rodriguez this week, and would have presented him with an extension offer close to five years and $150 million, to begin at the conclusion of his 2008-2010 contract, through which he would have earned $81 million. Through the Yankees' ...

Buzz: 12-years, $350 M for A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
... In an update to ESPN.com, citing ‘sources,’ Buster Olney reports that in order for the Yankees to retain Alex Rodriguez the team had to present an offer of at least $350 million. ...

Is A-Rod Really That Greedy?
Published 11/2/2007 by This Suit Is Not Black at This Suit Is Not Black
I don't understand why Alex Rodriguez is made out to be the bad guy in negotiations with the New York Yankees. Honestly, the guy's demands weren't all that outrageous. Oh. Nevermind.Sources are telling ESPN that Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yanks because their offer fell juuuuuuuust short of what he and agent Scott Boras were looking for. About $100 million short.The source told the World Wide Leader that the team was willing to offer Rodriguez an extension close "to five ...

Insert Kris Benson Joke Here
Published 11/2/2007 by Itsmetsforme at It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations
... We have to somehow get past the New York Yankees heroic and inspirational stand last week against greed and autopilot managers if we ever want to discuss the main event, the stomach-turning Arod issue, rationally. First of all, what possibilities does the greedy bastard have? One Buster has this to say: ...

A-Rod in Dodger Blue Just Got a Whole Lot Unlikelier
Published 11/2/2007 by Orel at Sons of Steve Garvey
From "Sources: Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod" by Buster Olney at ESPN.com: Before Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yankees earlier this week, the team was told that it would not be able to meet with the third baseman unless it presented an offer of at least $350 million, sources say. The Yankees had hoped to meet with Rodriguez this week, and would have presented him with an extension offer close to five years and $150 million, to begin at the conclusion of his 2008-2010 contract, through ...

$350MM Just To Meet With A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Buster Olney has the scoop: Scott Boras told the Yankees that just to get in the door with Alex Rodriguez, they'd have to extend his current contract to reach $350MM over ten years. ...

Sources: Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Sources: Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod Before Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yankees earlier this week, the team was told that it would not be able to meet with the third baseman unless it presented an offer of at least $350 million, sources say. Boras holds pinky to mouth: “three hundred...fifty...MILLION dollars!!!” Boras + Pay-Rod: AHAHAHAHA!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! ...all GMs silent… AHAHAHA!! AHAHA.. aha.. ah..eh.. ...uncomfortable silence…

Abreu had to stay; A-Rod had to leave
Published 11/2/2007 by Peter Abraham at The LoHud Yankees Blog
... Bobby Abreu. They need a third baseman, a closer and a catcher. They didn’t need to add right fielder to that list. Abreu is not a dirt-on-the-uniform type so fans tend to get down on him. But when you look up after 162 games, he has 100+ RBI and 100+ runs scored and he plays most every day. For one year at his age, it’s the smart move. —————————— The well-sourced Buster Olney reports that the the Yankees fell $100 million short of just getting a meeting with A-Rod. The Yankees ...

Abreu's Back, A-Rod's Certifiable
Published 11/2/2007 by Brian at Depressed Fan
... In other news, Alex Rodriguez is apparently seeking a $350 million contract. I'm sorry, that should read a contract of AT LEAST $350 million. ...

Start with Fort Knox and go from there
Published 11/2/2007 by anaconda <info@pinstripealley.com> at Pinstripe Alley: Front Page Posts
Here's the latest A-Rod story from Buster Olney that gets more absurd by the day.  I can't see any team meeting close to these ridiculous demands. ...

Get the (bleep) out of here
Published 11/2/2007 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
Not a lot of words are necessary for this one. When the Yanks offered A-Rod another $230 million to stay over the next eight years, they were apparently $120 million short of what A-Rod Boras was seeking. Yep, according to Buster Olney, A-Rod is seeking a 10- or 12-year deal worth $350 million . We truly believe he won't get that much, and if he wants that much over so many years, he's going to be out of work at the start of next season. What's lost on us is this: even with a season like he had this year, how is one player -- in baseball, the ...

I love the smell of spinning in the morning
Published 11/2/2007 by Shyster at ShysterBall
... If you're the Yankees you leak a story that makes you look reasonable and the rest of the world barking mad.Which isn't to say it's not true. But there may very well be more to the story that Olney's sources aren't telling him. We don't know though, because there is no evidence that Olney sought comment from Boras on the leak, er, the report, and God knows Boras hasn't exactly been eschewing the media this week. There is also no apparent sourcing at all for this statement: ...

Riffing Blue Jays and sniffing-glue daze...
Published 11/2/2007 by John Brattain at The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort
... In other news, Buster Olney is reporting on ESPN that Scott Boras informed the Yankees “they would have to be prepared to make an extension offer that would take the third baseman's deal up to a total value of $350 million.” ...

ARod & Scott Boras Are Insane
Published 11/2/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... According to a report by Buster Olney at ESPN.com, Scott Boras and Alex Rodriguez wanted a $350 million offer just to tatlk. The Yankees were ready to offer a 5 year $150 million contract extension. Put that on top of the $82 million he would have received had he stayed, the Yankees would have been just a mere $120 or so million short. ...

Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod
Published 11/2/2007 by Jim Jacobs at Yankees baseball blog
... But team executives were told, sources say, that in order to arrange a meeting with Rodriguez, they would have to be prepared to make an extension offer that would take the third baseman's deal up to a total value of $350 million. That means that the offer the Yankees intended to propose would have been more than $100 million short. Continue ...

$350 Million just to negotiate
Published 11/2/2007 by JMM at MY BASEBALL BIAS
From Buster Olney at ESPN: Before Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yankees earlier this week, the team was told that it would not be able to meet with the third baseman unless it presented an offer of at least $350 million, sources say. The Yankees had hoped to meet with Rodriguez this week, and would have presented him with an extension offer close to five years and $150 million, to begin at the conclusion of his 2008-2010 contract, through which he would have earned $81 million. Through the Yankees’ ...

Torre in Blue, A-Rod Too?
Published 11/3/2007 by Jay at The Futility Infielder
... by Boras and the bubble that only his kind of wealth can produce. Thanks, I'll pass. As fun as it was to watch him here in New York when he was at his best -- and I attended both his three-homer game and the one where he went yard twice in one inning -- and as much as the Dodgers could use his big bat in the middle of the lineup, the circumstances make it very easy for me to wish he'd just take his weak-willed, insecure ass elsewhere. • On Rodriguez's other options : with the report that Boras and Rodriguez were seeking a $350 million package from the Yankees, it seems ...

How Many Titles Does $350 Million Buy?
Published 11/3/2007 by Russianator at Three Idiots on Sports
... So let me get this straight, for $350 million, I can get a guy who has never won a ring, a guy who has historically played on teams that have have improved after he left, and is a constant distraction and clubhouse pariah? Gee where do I sign up? All I can say is that whatever team signs Gay-Fraud will mortgage their future to pay his salary, compromise their present by destroying pay roll flexibility,and most likely not win a damn thing because he chokes in the post season. For once, the Yankees have exercised some restraint, and God knows, its about time. Alex ...

Hey, I Recognize You
Published 11/3/2007 by Yankees Chick at Yankees Chick
... We're only a few days into this new Girardi-led era, but I must say that I am feeling good about things. I really did want A-Rod to stick around, but it seems abundantly clear that he is obviously not the type of team player we had hoped he would be ($350 mil just to talk? You make me sick.) Abreu is a man of pure golden ...

Rangers Pursue Hunter, Rowand; Schilling A Possibility?
Published 11/3/2007 by Joey Matschulat at Baseball Time in Arlington
... According to league sources, Yankee team executives were told that in order to arrange a meeting with Alex Rodriguez before his decision to opt out of his contract and become a free agent, they would have to make an extension offer that would have increased the total value of his megadeal to $350 million. Yikes. ...

Sources: A-Rod Wanted Extension Offer Worth at Least $269 Million - But, Just to Meet
Published 11/3/2007 by Patrick at YanksBlog.com
ESPN's Buster Olney reports that, according to sources, before A-Rod opted out of his deal, the Yankees were told that they would need to make an offer that would bring his total contract (including the three years left on it) up to $350 million total, just to meet with him . Let's do some math. He had three years and $81 million left on his current deal. That's an average of $27 million a year. The article doesn't say how long the extension would be for. But, we can say it would be for more than 5 years, as that would make the extension pay an average of $53.8 million a ...

Random post-World Series stuff on a Sunday afternoon
Published 11/4/2007 by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
... . Nonetheless, any warm feelings that half-assed excuse could stir were instantly negated by news leaking out that Boras and A-Rod considered the Yankees’ lucrative $230 million contract to be about $100 million short. The Hardball Times has a ...

Moustaches, pAy-Rod and an asterisk
Published 11/4/2007 by Seth Keichline at The MLB Source
... I miss everything that he sold his soul for in those commercials – Major League Baseball games. Rot in hell, Dane-o. Lucky for us, we have just enough drama in the off-season soap opera that is As the MLB Turns (I’ll take those royalties, Selig) to distract us for about two seconds from further Brady vs. Manning chatter. But before I get to that, let’s set some ground rules: 1. My photo was taken light-years ago. I’m not really a little boy – or a pedophile. 2. Alex Rodriguez will be known as pAy-Rod in this web space from now on. All copyrights ...

Today's Best - 11.04.07
Published 11/5/2007 by quang the heavy favorite at Garbage Points
... 1. a-rod - according to sources on friday, a-rod was seeking a $350 million deal from the yankees. according to additional sources, other things a-rod was seeking from the yankees include the moon, a time machine, lou gehrig's disease to be renamed alex rodriguez's disease, and an iphone. what is it even like to walk around thinking in your head that you're worth $350 million? wouldn't you just always think to yourself, "wow, i'm not wearing nice enough pants" or "why am i walking around when i could be riding a zebra?" but with all that said, if i were an owner and ...

Your Daily Alex Rodriguez News
Published 11/5/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... We didn’t get a chance to link up the Buster Olney’s story Friday that claimed the Yankees would have needed to bring a minimum offer of $350 million just to get to the table with A-Rod. If that didn’t sufficiently disgust you, here’s the latest tidbit, ...

Yanks in trouble...
Published 11/6/2007 by Cpt. Morgan at Cobra Brigade
... Fast foward to November 6th of the same year...Alex Rodriguez wanted 350 million, Joe Torre felt disrespected, left for the sunny laid back west coast, and took Mr. Yankee himself, Don Mattingly with him.  Andy Pettitte declines the 16 million dollar option, my guess is that Roger Clemens will finally stay retired, I'm assuming Damon will be gone next season...what does that leave the Yanks with?  An aging Abreu and Mussina, and a Jason Giambi contract that the Yanks can seem to get out from under...It seems that the only bright light for them is the always consistent ...

Bora$ Wins Again
Published 11/16/2007 by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
... Did Boras miscalculate when he leaked the news of his client’s free agency during the World Series? Undoubtedly. Was Boras mistaken in the market out for A-Rod? Almost certainly. When push came to shove, the only team to even make Rodriguez a formal offer was…the Toledo Mud Hens. But did Boras cost his client money? I don’t think so. Even with the money they were getting from the Rangers, the contract extension the Yankees were preparing for A-Rod came to 8 years, $230 million. At the worst, Boras hurt his client’s reputation (which ...