Should Boston fans really be upset with Manny Ramirez? The guy sure bitched a lot about the city in the past few years, but was there another reason for Manny’s move to Los Angeles? This other reason is so important that MLB has launched a full investigation into the background of the trade. Manny Ramirez […]
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Not too long ago, I wrote about the deal I secured for my sports Artist, Alvin Fall, with the Tampa Bay Rays. Two days ago, Alvin met up with Carl Crawford during BP at Tropicana Field. I wanted to share some of the pictures of Carl Crawford posing for a picture with Alvin and signing […]
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I have mentioned it briefly in the past, so I will bring it up again. Paul DePodesta (of fame from the book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game), has his own blog. It’s called, It Might Be Dangerous… You Go First. DePodesta is definitely a blog maverick (sorry to steal the phrase from […]
We recently had a deep discussion over whether the NBA Rookie Salary Scale is bad. Commentators seemed to believe that it is actually a good thing that the scale is in place and that the NFL should mirror it as soon as possible. But what about the MLB? Would it make sense to mandate slotting […]
Sticking to the theme of baseball (it is MLB Amateur Draft week, after all), could a sports agent be blamed for Oklahoma State’s downfall in this year’s College World Series? It would be too easy to just place blame for an entire team losing a game directly on an agent, but could sleaziness have gone […]
The next time you hear someone complain about the seemingly skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball (MLB), remind them of two things. One, the amount players make must be viewed in tandem with what the League and its owners are pulling in; and two, in the last five years, the percentage of League revenue paid […]
Ryan Howard’s agent, Larry Reynolds Casey Close, is spending hours each day (or delegating that responsibility to someone else) preparing a case to prove that Howard deserves $10 million instead of the $7 million that the Phillies want to compensate him for his efforts. The system is called arbitration, but why is it used and […]
A little over a year ago, Ryan Howard dropped his agent Larry Reynolds of Reynolds Sports Management in favor of Casey Close, who works for CAA. Howard was coming off of an MVP year and was hoping for another stellar season so that he could go to arbitration with Close and get a monumental deal. […]
Splitting the difference is a time-honored and often successful negotiation strategy. But, according to Roger Dawson, author of Secrets of Power Negotiating, the real rule is that one never offer to split the difference oneself, but should always encourage the other person to offer to split the difference. “Don’t fall into the trap of thinking […]
I found an interesting ESPN.com piece on the Manhattan-based Peter Greenberg (rated by Forbes as the “best” agent in baseball), agent for the recently traded Johan Santana. Greenberg’s foray into the industry (he founded Peter E. Greenberg & Associates) occurred in the early 90’s after first working as a lawyer, and was founded upon a […]