{"id":32,"date":"2007-11-17T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2007-11-18T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T02:28:29","slug":"the-perfect-face-for-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Face for Egg on It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0As a semi-opinionated person, there are plenty of public figures whom I would be delighted\u00a0at the sight of\u00a0them falling flat on their faces.\u00a0 I\u00a0throroughly enjoy\u00a0any public character attacks on Tiki Barber or Curt Schilling.\u00a0 I remember reveling in the numerous legal troubles of Michael Irvin and Nate Newton.\u00a0 I couldn’t get enough of strikeout lowlights\u00a0this year from J.D. Drew and Andruw Jones.\u00a0 I even get a real kick out of every atrocious story that revolves around Isiah Thomas\u00a0or Stephon Marbury.\u00a0 But, this week may have been the most satisfying example of a brash, cocky, seemingly invulnerable sports figure\u00a0who got his just due.<\/p>\n

Unless you live in a small West African village, you probably know more than you want to know about the saga that resulted in Alex Rodriguez signing the largest contract<\/a> in the history of professional sports.\u00a0 The funny thing is that the size of the contract, his return to\u00a0the Big Apple\u00a0and the direction of the\u00a0“New Yankees”\u00a0may not have been the biggest stories that came\u00a0out of\u00a0this ordeal.\u00a0 In my opinion, the biggest (and most satisfying) story is that the mega-agent Scott Borass looks like a buffoon and may have lost the ultimate piece to any agent’s career–credibility.\u00a0 It seems as if Borass completely and utterly misread the market<\/a>, and it may be just the beginning of the end for the worst man in sports.<\/p>\n

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The dominoes are already beginning to fall for Borass.\u00a0 Just yesterday, another Borass client, Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers, fired the high-priced agent<\/a> because he was\u00a0outraged that Borass’s insistence on “testing the waters” had upset the Tigers to point where they almost cut ties with the veteran pitcher.\u00a0 Reportedly, Rogers wants to stay in Detroit, but Borass informed the Tigers that his client would be testing the free agent market.\u00a0 A common ploy of the devious agent that usually results in\u00a0a higher pay day because the team ends up bidding against itself.\u00a0 The player gets where he wants, just with more money.\u00a0 Apparently, this technique has run its course because the Tigers would have none of it, and Rogers is outraged.<\/p>\n

Even before the fiasco of this offseason happened, Borass was getting criticism from some of the most respected sports writers about his affect on the game itself<\/a>, and some of its best prospects.\u00a0 His influence on the draft was obvious this year, when\u00a0Rick Porcelo, arguably the best pitcher in the amateur draft and a Borass client, fell to the Tigers at 27 because none of the teams before them wanted to deal with Borass in negotiations.\u00a0 It was a great thing for Detroit<\/a>, but is it really good for the game that even the draft is skewed towards teams with money?\u00a0 The Pirates and the Royals cannot even draft Borass clients anymore because they cannot afford the signing bonuses that Borass insists upon receiving.\u00a0 This is just one example of how this egomaniacal, money- and power-hungry agent is affecting every aspect of the National Pastime.<\/p>\n

However, the players kept coming to Borass in spades for one reason:\u00a0 he always<\/em> got top-dollar for his clients–oftentimes much more than they were even worth.\u00a0 Now with public opinion believing that A-Rod agreed to his newest contract DESPITE\u00a0Borass (as opposed to because of him), this one key ingredient to the Borass empire may have fallen because, in this business, perception often becomes reality and\u00a0it may no longer be perceived that Scott Borass will get you top–<\/em>dollar.\u00a0\u00a0Because of this,\u00a0more and more players like Kenny Rogers may say “no thanks” to having to put up with the “bigger-than-the-game” circus stunts–like the one during Game 4 of the World Series–that always accompany a Borass offseason.<\/p>\n

And, honestly, I couldn’t be happier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(ps…I am well aware that\u00a0the\u00a0last name of A-Rod’s agent\u00a0only has one “s” at the end)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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