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This is a home game for Strauss. No way he should lose to a national reporter on a story of this level. My guess is Olney's report is something fed to him by Boras to get more teams into the fray.TimMcCarver15 wrote:When this is all over we not only will know which team Holliday plays for next season, but also who is the better reporter, Joe Strauss or Buster Olney.
His septum seemed undeviated to me. Maybe you're thinking of Kurkjian?whiterat24 wrote:Is Buster Olney the nerdy guy with the perpetual sinus infection?
So maybe 5 years is the walk-away option on an 8 year deal?Also, Boras has written those opt-out clauses before and five years would make sense as the first walk-away option.
Maybe, however it doesn't really jibe with ESPN's comment:TimeForGuinness wrote:Maybe the 5 year and 8 year deal are the same?
From Goold Twitter:
So maybe 5 years is the walk-away option on an 8 year deal?Also, Boras has written those opt-out clauses before and five years would make sense as the first walk-away option.
Buster Olney of ESPN.com reports that the Cardinals would like to stand on a five-year offer for free agent outfielder Matt Holliday.
This differs greatly from the eight-year offer reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. According to Olney, while the Cardinals are flexible to altering the deal, there is sentiment within the organization that they aren't competing with many teams -- if any -- at a similar level. As the dominoes continue to fall around major league baseball, they might be right.
Source: ESPN.com
True, but then again...I don't know who is feeding who the information on the deal.Michael wrote:Maybe, however it doesn't really jibe with ESPN's comment:TimeForGuinness wrote:Maybe the 5 year and 8 year deal are the same?
From Goold Twitter:
So maybe 5 years is the walk-away option on an 8 year deal?Also, Boras has written those opt-out clauses before and five years would make sense as the first walk-away option.
Buster Olney of ESPN.com reports that the Cardinals would like to stand on a five-year offer for free agent outfielder Matt Holliday.
This differs greatly from the eight-year offer reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. According to Olney, while the Cardinals are flexible to altering the deal, there is sentiment within the organization that they aren't competing with many teams -- if any -- at a similar level. As the dominoes continue to fall around major league baseball, they might be right.
Source: ESPN.com
Probably Keith Law. He's got a nerdy voice that's pretty high pitched.whiterat24 wrote:Real whiny nasally voice nerdy anti-ESPN type guy on ESPN.
edit ... just looked him up, not the guy I was thinking of.