SI: A-Rod to become a free agent

Then why did MLB put out a release saying essentially the same thing Gammons said last night?

Are they all Red Sox homers? Is it a massive New England conspiracy?

Come on. It was a BS move, and Gammons called it right.

 

It was a BS move. Agree 100%.

Did you hear Gammons' comments? A slight twinge of hysteria in his voice which came across more as a fan and less of a journalist.

 

It's easy, really: Baseball > Yourself.

When you're making butt-loads of dough because of baseball, put the game ahead of yourself for a week -- shit, two days would have been more than fine.

Yankees fan, Red Sox fan, Royals fan ... it doesn't fucking matter. Respect the fucking game. Gammons did, and he demonstrated it last night. It wasn't a Red Sox thing, it was a baseball thing.

 

Peter was undoubtedly sincere. MLB, however, should STFU. They've turned out the World Series for tricks for decades. For the right coin from Fox, Bud would've let A-Rod make the announcement from home plate after or during the National Anthem.

 

Bor-ass issued an apology today in which he basically admitted it was his idea to announce it last night.

 

If anyone was upset, I'm sorry they're upset.

"We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

"There was no reason to make an announcement last night other than to try to put his selfish interests and that of one individual player above the overall good of the game," DuPuy said. "Last night and today belong to the Boston Red Sox, who should be celebrated for their achievement, and to the Colorado Rockies, who made such an unbelievable run to the World Series."

 

Bor-ass statement:

''I apologize to the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies and their players, Major League Baseball and its players, and baseball fans everywhere for that interference,'' he said in a statement. ''The teams and players involved deserved to be the focus of the evening and honored with the utmost respect. The unfortunate result was not my intent, but is solely my fault. I could have handled this situation better, and for that I am truly sorry.''

 

Sorry, Le Pew, that series didn't benefit "the overall good of the game."

 

Why? Because you didn't like the outcome.

Trying to upstage the World Series shows a complete disregard for the good of the game.

 

For Selig to ever say anything about "the overall good of the game" in light of the disaster he's brought upon it is as big an act of hypocrisy I've seen outside of the Catholic Church.

 

No, I didn't care for the outcome (it was the least compelling October of my lifetime), but that's not important.

Do you think Fox cares about the good of the game? Do you think the fuckwad on 245 Park Avenue does?

 

No, he's not.

For someone who almost never seems to tell a reporter how big a fan he is of the game, Scott Boras knew he was upstaging the World Series and the champion by making this announcement when he did. He got the attention he craved for his client, and more importantly, himself.

But I will give Boras credit for flopping on the grenade. As image-conscious as Alex Rodriguez has always been, love him or otherwise, it would have been a strange move for him to make ... though I still argue that not showing up for an award handed out during the World Series was a chippy choice on his part.