I doubt very much that Boras will allow this meeting.

So Boras will only accept offers by fax or something?  Do you seriously believe that he’s not interested in finding out if the Yankees are willing to pay more than he thinks anyone else will?  I mean, it’s not like the Yankees are asking to meet with Rodriguez but not Boras.

Do you seriously believe that he�s not interested in finding out if the Yankees are willing to pay more than he thinks anyone else will?

No.  But Boras is pretty shrewd.  He knows the Yankees are able to spend more than anyone else.  So by waiting until after the WS to see what other offers are, it forces the Yankees to change their offer, if they really want A-Rod.
Boras may go through with a preliminary meeting but its pretty likely he has no intention of even considering anything at this point.

No other offers from any teams are possible, unless Alex opts out. That’s the only way Bora$$ can find that out, without violating strict tampering rules.

Boras won’t allow the meeting??  Who works for whom??

It really makes sense for the Yankees to get this wrapped up quickly, because, if A-Rod opts out, the rest of the plan for the offseason changes dramatically.  They become an 88-90 win team even if everyone comes back. 

If that is the case, does it make sense to give huge contracts to Posada and Rivera and pick up Abreu’s option?  At that win level, the value of a marginal win decreases significantly and I don’t think that it would be worth the roughly $40 million to have those guys next year.  They wouldn’t make the playoffs with 89 wins, so they may as well pay for an 84-win team that doesn’t make the playoffs.

Boras may go through with a preliminary meeting but its pretty likely he has no intention of even considering anything at this point.

I am absolutely certain that he and Rodriguez would consider an overwhelming offer.  If Cashman said he’d do 10/300 with incentives and escalators, Boras would not only consider it, he’d take it.  Now I’m saying that such an offer will be forthcoming, but it’s pretty silly to say that he won’t consider anything at this point.  If that were his position, he’d just announce that A-Rod is opting out, period.

No other offers from any teams are possible, unless Alex opts out. That’s the only way Bora$$ can find that out, without violating strict tampering rules.

The tampering rules aren’t strict enough.  I’m pretty sure that the Red Sox tampered with JD Drew, but did so in such a way as to maintain plausible deniability.  Boras will have a very good idea of who is interested and what they might be willing to do.  His problem will be that he has no way to hold anyone to anything they might say during the 10-day window before the opt-out.

1) Boras won’t allow a meeting with the team he’s most likely to get the most money from.

2) Boras is going to be fielding offers from teams while Arod is still a Yankee, thereby violating lots of tampering issues.

someone is hung over today.

That should be “I’m NOT saying that such an offer will be forthcoming…”

Boras is going to drag this out until the last possible minute.  He always does.  In any case, the Yanks would probably do better to wrap up Mariano and Posada’s deals (if possible) before the series ends.  Presumably, they already have settled on a manager and coaches, one of which ought to be Mazzone, so the main issue by next week will be negotiating with Mr. B.  After that, they should re-sign José Molina and Vizcaíno - although the latter should not be offered more than two years.

I don’t think Bowa accepted the Seattle offer yet.  Is it possible that he was promised, or thinks he can retain his position with the Yankees?

2) Boras is going to be fielding offers from teams while Arod is still a Yankee, thereby violating lots of tampering issues.

I was referring to when he opts out.

Kyle, Stan, Eric and Kenny all deserve to go home happy tonite. Lets win one for Mr. Garrisson . Go Kaz .

Go tooley.

It’s Ms. Garrison these days. remember she had that peniplasty.

Eelz I see ya there lad.

gosh if josh “dragon-slayer” fogg hadn’t served up a meatball for matsuzaka this might be a real game right now.

Nevermind. ahhaha

That was fuckin sweet. Keep it up Rox…

Ms. Garrison indeed.

monster shot into Bambi’s house. last couple of innings these rox bats are working it.

Helton’s ABs especially. he accounted for about 20% of dicey’s pitches.

‘Ello Guvnah!

The Heltonator.

This is finally fun.

Todd seems to have some vendetta against these Japanese pitchers.

Eeelz we watched 1408 tonite. It fukkin blew.

i watched that a few weeks ago. pretty disappointing.

some of my friends said it was good. it seemed like a mess of weirdness to me.

I’m so glad I have the sound off so I dont have to listen to Timmy Mac espouse about THE VIOLENT HEAD JERK.

hahah where’s deion sanders when you need him?

How about a double for Officer Barbrady.

I must say a lotta these CR fans look like the kinda guys that would puke in in yer car on the way home.

it’s cool they got two more innings to do their damage with at least one tulo holly helty trio.

hahaha. i liked the one in full braveheart gear.

Yeah I could see that guy pukin all over my GPS.

Why don’t we ever have any good LHRP ers? Fuentes has been very solid.

Take that back.

Abreu woulda had that. Might be game.

god i get up for two minutes.

Congrats SSF. Ballgame over. WS over. The Red Sox win. Theeeeeeeee RS win

I know the Sox are an excellent team. I have Nesn I see maybe 60 games a season. Point is , is the NL this lame? These guys smacked around NYY and BRS pretty well this summer as I recall. I guess I just hoped for more competion.

well this year hasn’t been like recent ones. no sleeper picks, no lame teams on a streak. the team that was the most formidable the whole regular season is walloping in the playoffs. i can live with that

That should be compitition, or competetion. or constipation

my only hope now is that if the sox win, they finish it off in colorado. i don’t think i can take seeing papelbon’s camel-toe-jig again.

Thats true. No lame ass La Russa 83 win team.

I can take Papels jig better than J.Henrys I only have eyes for you little boy, appearence, and creepy priest vibe.

Billie holliday jack would be sweet.

would you rather bang billie or watch mattie bang one out in this game

does pap still squeal after the final out with a 5 run lead?

Ellsbury is a looming presence he’s gonna be running wild for years and years methinks.

Long winter ahead.

Word on #50. Said that in early sept. Eeelz didja like Deathproof? I liked the last 15 minutes but coulda done without the 90 minute female R-Dogs lite, And Russel morphing into a gutless bitch at the end.

Havent seen Planet Terror yet but it’s on deck. SSf , Crowned you and yours at 1215. Have a nice winter.

i’m gonna go pop an ambien and watch major league II. night chaps

Thanks OTF. It’s in the bag now. Colorado is paying for wasting their season in AAAA-ball. Time to work on my jig for tomorrow night. And just because they’re on the road won’t stop the Riverdance. They did it in Anaheim.

Ellsbury is a looming presence he’s gonna be running wild for years and years methinks.
He’s got a picture of Johnny Damon hanging in his attic

I don’t think Bowa accepted the Seattle offer yet.  Is it possible that he was promised, or thinks he can retain his position with the Yankees?

I sure would like to see Bowa back, he and Pena really seemed to improve the infield this season. Maybe Torre deserved better than he got, but without Don Zimmer his shortcomings were obvious. Pena as manager and Bowa as bench coach might be an improvement.

i seem to remember bowa mentioning that he would be happy to be joe torre’s 3rd base coach for the rest of his days. i think his loyalty to joe ran very deep. hopefully his ties to the young men on the team could keep him in NY, i love the guy. he’s a hard ass and a great 3rd base coach.