Congratulations to George Steinbrenner for having the best postseason flameout squad that money can buy.
Mercenaries like Johnny Damon, Andy Pettite, and Roger Clemens sure came through, didn't they?
Now the ultimate mercenary, A-Rod, is about to get set loose by Boras to suck some team completely dry so that they don't have any money left over for players to back him up.
Hopefully, Drayton won't touch A-Rod with a ten foot pole. The Astros wouldn't know what to do with a decent third baseman, anyway. Might scare people out of the park with someone who can actually play the position standing at the bag. Scary!
Nor should he touch Andy Pettite, who "came home" for a few years and then skedaddled the instant he realized that Purpura and Garner were out of their fucking minds.
Must have been God talking to him again, telling him who to play for.
Mercenaries. Gotta hate 'em.
(Is God a bigger asshole of an agent compared to Scott Boras?)
Comments (5)
I can't see Drayton wanting to have anything to do with Borass after the whole Beltran fiasco.
Posted by Justin | October 9, 2007 2:44 PM
Posted on October 9, 2007 14:44
How'd you like Roger's latest "injury" as things started to go south? Nice.
Posted by kevin whited | October 9, 2007 5:47 PM
Posted on October 9, 2007 17:47
As James Lileks once put it (more or less), our squad of highly paid mercenaries is better than your squad of highly paid mercenaries!
Posted by A Steve | October 9, 2007 7:49 PM
Posted on October 9, 2007 19:49
I think A-Rod's next contract should be $5M per year base, with a performance bonus of $750,000 per postseason hit.
Posted by Eric J | October 10, 2007 9:32 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 09:32
3 million clams per win for Clemens. Such a deal!
Posted by mojo | October 10, 2007 3:28 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 15:28