tscards wrote:I'd be as embarrassed as hell to have Boras as my agent!! I don't care that he get's the "most money" for his clients. Vast vast vast majority of people hate him & his 'greed' because of it. I'm not sorry to say that playing for 8.5Mil or 9.5Mil is going to make one frickin' bit of difference. When you have that much money, why another Mil?? I could probably manage to get "by" very well without trying to get the biggest frickin' contract ever!
Of course if the east coast banks didn't open their checkbooks all of the time, we probably wouldn't be thinking how bad he is.
I really hate the way that mlb contracts are negotiated!
Other than your last sentence, I couldn't disagree more with your statement.
Yes, it's hard to phathom the difference b/w 8.5 and 9.5 mil if you're living a middle class lifestyle. But, suffice it to say, these guys aren't driving honda accords and buying 150K houses and making payments. When you're driving 500K cars, and your wife is driving a 300K car and you've got a yacht in the bahamas to go along with your condo and dock and youv'e got a 5 million dollar mansion that you're living in and sending your kids to the best prep schools "(since if they went anywhere else they'd be outsiders for being dropped off in said car) and blah blah blah, 1 million dollars is noticeable. Plus, on top fo that, they only work 15 years or so instead of 40 like the average person.....
Is it all necessary? No. But, if someone gave you 20 million what would you do? bury it in your back yard?
