The Florida Marlins and the New York Yankees won last night. Both teams got a tally in the win column, but the Marlins’ win cost a lot less than the Yankees’ win. In fact, the entire payroll of this year’s Marlins teams comes out to less than what A-Rod will make for playing third base. […]
Category: MLB Players
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 […]
Is Barry Bonds going to go to Tampa Bay and play with the always changing Devil Rays or move to a location where he can justify ignoring reporters because they speak another language, and play ball in Japan? The Rays are busy talking internally about proposing an offer to Bonds’ agent, Jeff Borris, but have […]
Next the Red Sox are going to replace Big Papi and place Boras himself on the roster. Scott Boras’ 7th official client on Boston’s 25 man roster is Manny Ramirez after Ramirez fired Greg Genske at the start of spring training. Boras benefits from the fact that Manny’s contract with the Red Sox may be […]
The Philadelphia Phillies now boast a 7-1 lifetime record. Until two days ago, the Philadelphia Phillies were invincible. They were undefeated. Fans loved them and swore to never boo them again. Okay, scratch the last sentence…a Philadelphia fan without an arsenal of “boos” is no true Philadelphian. Anyway, the Phillies are no longer flawless when […]
The NCAA basketball season is quickly coming to a close, and Dynasty is hoping to get into the world of basketball in the upcoming draft. Speaking of Dynasty, I never really got to publicly thank the creator of the Dynasty logo. If you like it and want to talk to him about creating a logo […]
What do you know? Scott Boras got hammered publicly again. The main question, though, is whether the criticism of Boras is credible, since it comes from a guy who is more prone to spouting belligerent comments than Boras’ last critic (Kenny Rogers). Gary Sheffield went on a tirade on Thursday, calling out Boras in every […]
The inaugural UF Law Sports Symposium went much better than expected. The panelists and moderators were fantastic and the attendance was adequate (many people said that there were more people present than at Princeton’s big symposium). Those Ivy League schools better watch out. I fully plan on making UF’s yearly symposium the premier gathering of […]
This week’s Friday Wrap-Up is coming to you live from the Reitz Auditorium at the University of Florida. The UF Sports Symposium is underway, and it has been a great success thus far. Other exciting news: Tomorrow is my birthday! Anyway, here are some stories that I looked over during this past week: Curtis Granderson […]
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 […]