that newsday article states it all. Mets get a counter offer from Boras on Friday. Then he screws Drayton all day Saturday to scare the Mets into giving him more $$$$$$. There was no one sticking point. WE HAD NO CHANCE.
I'm going to boo his sorry .260 batting average ass and throw beer on his ugly wife. He can take his ****** butt-buddy agent, his butterhog wife and his millions of dollars and go straight to the neether reaches as far as I'm concerned.....and I say that with the greatest of respect.
JUSTICE WAS RIGHT in his article about Carlos the other day. "I want to play for a winner" I guess he thought they were a winner and the AStros were not. METS suck and will not make the playoffs. Nice choice CARLOS
Furthermore his wife is fuking ugly. When they interviewed her in St Louis in the playoffs i thought she was his mom or some old lady.
I agree. We were all lead to believe that the Astros were the front runners today, yet it now looks as if that was another Boras trick to get the numbers up from the team or teams he REALLY wanted. The writing was on the wall when the Mets were allowed to fly down and visit him face to face. Peter Gammons said on last night's SportsCenter that the latest rumor was Boras was going to keep him on the market after the deadline so that the Yankees & Mets would get in a bidding war. He used the Astros' deadline to get what he really wanted. And the Astros and thier offer were clearly not in the real picture.
As it's been stated and needs to be further stressed, if you're getting paid $115 million over seven years, how is that different than $105 mill? I was thinking about it and there HAS to be a threshold that is reached that is too much. I understand how people can be greedy, but how in the hell is there greed at levels that high??? I don't know what percentage Boras is getting; let's say he gets $30 million of that contract. I really don't understand what more one person can do with $5-10 million more. If Beltran truly wanted to be an Astro then he would have signed. He wants to be on a winning team which makes sense, but does he not realize how much he is hurting a franchise by signing such a huge contract? Boras is hurting baseball with these huge contracts; why doesn't the MLB step in and do something about it? If they think the problem is low-budget teams like the once-valiant Expos, they are foolish. The problem is poor performance around one greatly-paid player that leads to no fans and no funding by the fans. The reason for the 11 PM deadline was to prevent "collusion." In my opinion, the fickle MLB is allowing the MLBPA to collude with the agents and players. What the MLB and the MLBPA agreed upon a couple of years ago with the steroid "penalties" was an absolute joke. Major League Baseball is in serious **** and they need help. Maybe it's time to enforce some type of salary cap. Lastly, Carlos Beltran is an absolute dimwitted fool if he thinks the Mets will be contenders in any of his seven years. If he doesn't sign with the Yankees, he will be guaranteed of being a disgruntled and embittered asshead*. * - I needed another word for fool, so I went to www.MerriamWebster.com and apparently the first synonym for "fool" was asshead. Go figure.
And you remember what happened to the last woman whose last name was Lugo and her husband played for the Astros.
I'm bummed, but I'll still watch the Astros all season, win or lose, and hope our pick from the Mets turns out to be the next Barry Bonds (sans steroid contreversy). But I want to say this. Screw Boras, Screw Boras, Screw Boras. I hope this is like the maze experiments, where he leads us to a certain point and shocks us, and we won't go there (negotiating with Boras) again.
Houston, TX -- The Houston Astros failed to beat a midnight (et) deadline on Saturday to re-sign star centerfielder Carlos Beltran, and now he's reportedly finalizing a contract with the New York Mets. Free agents who declined salary arbitration offers from their teams had until the completion of January 8 to re-sign with their clubs or the team would lose negotiating rights until May 1. The Houston Chronicle reports the offer to Beltran from the Astros was believed to be worth over $105 million for seven seasons. It would have been the largest contract in team history, but in the end the newspaper reported Beltran chose to sign with the Mets. Newsday reported the Mets and Beltran were only between $4 million and $5 million apart in negotiations. The Mets' offer was reportedly $112 million, and the Yankees apparently pulled out of the sweepstakes to sign the 27-year-old Beltran, who hit .267, belted 38 home runs with 104 RBI and stole 42 bases in 2004 for Houston and Kansas City. The Chicago Cubs were reportedly a player in negotiations to sign Beltran, but apparently didn't get that far because they fell short on money and years. The Mets were so serious about luring free agent Pedro Martinez to the team that general manager Omar Minaya headed to the Dominican Republic to negotiate with the three-time Cy Young Award winner. Martinez trusted Minaya was trying to build a winner and signed with the Mets for four years at $53 million. Minaya then led a Mets contingent that flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 3 to meet with Beltran and his agent, Scott Boras. Principal owner Fred Wilpon, senior VP of baseball operations Jim Duquette and special assistant Tony Bernazard were also in the distinguished group. The Mets had reportedly negotiated hard in the last week to ink Beltran, considered the crown jewel of the free agent market. Beltran raised his game in the 2004 playoffs, hitting .435 with eight homers and 14 RBI over 12 games. He helped lead the Astros to their first-ever playoff series win with a victory over Atlanta in the Division Series. Beltran's eight homers tied a single postseason record, equaling the mark by Barry Bonds in 2002. Houston ended the season one win shy of the World Series, losing to St. Louis in seven games in the NLCS. Copyright 2004 Courtesy of SportsNetwork. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/mlbnews.asp?articleID=119075 http://www.clickondetroit.com/mlb/4065159/detail.html http://www.foxreno.com/mlb/4065159/detail.html http://www.channelcincinnati.com/mlb/4065159/detail.html http://www.news4jax.com/mlb/4065159/detail.html Pick your poison.
Right now I feel the same way. He really screwed the Stros good but then again, the Stros has got only themselves to blame for such a stupid negotiating strategy.
beltran and boras a f---king r****ds. if this ******* never wanted to come to houston then screw him. he would have made more money in houston cuz of the taxes. what a ******* fool. screw him...i cant wait till the mets come to town so i can boo that ******* r****ded jackass
