A-Rod: Agent? I don't need no stinking agent!
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by MegECass110
Good for A-Rod. Seriously. He's been portrayed by the media and Red Sox fans like myself as a whiny, bitchy superstar who can't deal with playing in New York. Apparently that's not exactly the case. He said on his website that he and his wife Cynthia have a foundation with organization and would like to stay there. By separating himself from the prototypical-agent, money-hungry Boras, he's saying that money is not his biggest priority and that staying in New York is his first choice. Otherwise, he wouldn't have approached them in the first place. I give him a lot of credit for wanting to stay, especially since Hank Steinbrenner basically called a fraud for opting out. How awesomely awkward is that handshake at the press conference going to be if they re-sign him?
Yes, he still has to perform in the postseason. Yes, he still has to win a championship in New York if everyone is going to call him a true "Yankee". Until then, anything that helps to keep him out of Boston and Mike Lowell in Boston, is fine by me.
Side note: I used to call Scott Boras the Drew Rosenhaus of baseball. Both of them are widely known to sports fans, each want shitloads of money for their clients (a lot of times more than they deserve...coughBarryZitocough), both are seen as sniveling rats. But Rosenhaus takes the sniveling rat part to a whole 'nother level. He wants to be just as famous as his clients. He's been a guest on PTI and Sportscenter, he overshadows his athletes at their own press conferences...is there any other agent that can say that? We haven't heard from him in a while; he may have changed his ways. That's my Drew Rosenhaus rant, I've been holding that in for a while.
