The Players Organization won't allow it in a million years.
Sarcasm?
You keep spouting off about the "2nd highest payroll in baseball" when there's a 75 million difference between 1 (NY) and 2 (Boston)! 75 million is more than 11 teams! Are you not aware of this?
No sarcasm. Henry didn't think ARod was worth 25 mil, end of story. It's not an "inability to obtain a player", it's the principle of not overpaying for someone when the money can be better spent (like on good pitching). The good news is that now the Sox can sweeten offers to Pedro and Nomar b/c of this.
Oh, so Arod was supposed to tell the union to go fvck themselves to sign with the Sox, are you on crack?
The Yankees OVERPAID for Arod? Dude, seriously. Why don't you look at his contract.
Where did I say the YANKEES OVERPAID for AROD? BOSTON would have OVERPAID for ARod, they would have been getting screwed financially by ARod in THEIR deal. Yes, the Wankees got a much better deal than the Bosox because Texas was desparate... They got Texas to pay 9.5 mil a year on the 25 mil contract, and Arod makes 90 mil over 7 years... tha'ts roughly 13 mil a year PLUS Yankee website rights, and hotel suites for all of his games... That pushes it up another 2 mil, so do the math: 13+2+9.5 = 23.5. The Yanks are getting ARod for 16 mil, and Texas is paying 9.5 mil out of sheer desperation to get rid of "Captain AROD" lmao.
You can buy some pretty dam good pitching with 15 mil... free agent hitters with high RBI output are a dime a dozen. Give me some pitching with that 15 mil, and I could buy Randy Johnson and Urbina who would shut ARod down... remember, good pitching always > good hitting.
So Henry is out of line for trying to better his team now? I don't get it. Obviously Boston, Texas, and ARod thought they could negotiate and agree to a deal. They couldn't, so what? If you're a single guy looking for a girl, should you not ask her out b/c you think she's out of your league? Or do you just accept it and never try, even though she's winking and beckoning for you on the other side of the room to come over and talk?
So Henry is out of line for trying to better his team now? I don't get it. Obviously Boston, Texas, and ARod thought they could negotiate and agree to a deal. They couldn't, so what? If you're a single guy looking for a girl, should you not ask her out b/c you think she's out of your league? Or do you just accept it and never try, even though she's winking and beckoning for you on the other side of the room to come over and talk?
You're not understanding me. He's out of line for whining about a salary cap when he tried to go get the highest paid player in the game. And when did he start whining about it? When the Yankees got the guy he was trying to get. Okay, I'm sick of this topic already, bring on the season!
Uhh Henry, if he got ARod for what he's worth (which is about what NY paid), would have pushed his payroll to around 130-135mil range... I still don't see how this is REMOTELY close to NY's 160-165 mil from last year? Henry didn't want to overpay for Arod, which in the process would have pushed the payroll up to the 145-150 range... and of course since the Wankee's got a better deal b/c of Texas's desperation, Henry was pissed. And I would hardly call complaining about a 200+mil payroll "whining", he echoes the sentiments of most, if not all, owners in MLB beside Whinebrenner. Trust me, if Texas would have been willing to pay 9.5 mil off ARod's contract with Boston, we would not be having this discussion right now and ARod would be wearing Red. The Yankees were the benefactors of circumstance: ARod wanting too much money, Texas's desperation and last shot at getting the high salary monkey off their back, and the Player's Union rearing it's ugly head and vetoing it. Had any of these things gone the other way, ARod would be wearing Red. Notice how I didn't list Henry's willingness to spend more in order to get the deal done. ARod is not worth 24 mil that would come out of Boston's wallet, to reiterate.
