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Hmmmm. Maybe I'm making a mistake.
Via FireNedCollettiNow (not a notion I agree with at the moment), comes word that Manny's agent, The Jerk, claims he never rejected the Dodgers' offer to his client.
Dylan Hernandez at the LA Times provides The Jerk's side of the story.
Boras wouldn't comment and directed questions to the Dodgers. What he did say was that he never rejected the Dodgers' offer.
'They asked me to respond to them and I gave them a counterproposal within the framework of the structure we had agreed upon,' Boras said.
Hey, Jerk. Asking the DJ to play your favorite song so you can have another dance with an unwilling partner is not a "counter-offer." It's an insult — especially when your "counter-offer" was exactly what the Dodgers had rejected at least a few times.
Tony Jackson at the LA Times makes an interesting point: The Dodgers' have a long history of dealing with The Jerk's gamesmanship, and may have finally decided they've had enough. He screwed with the Dodgers when negotiating for a client list that includes Adrian Beltre, J.D. Drew, Eric Gagne and ... Andruw Jones.
The Jones debacle has got to still grate the Dodgers front office. The team agreed to a monster contract, only to see Jones show up in Spring Training overweight, out of shape and apparently unable to hit a baseball anymore.
Meanwhile, Jon Weisman suggests that the Yankees might be seeing this all play out and be thinking: Why don't we give The Jerk a call? Never underestimate Yankee foolishness, but I don't buy it.
Manny will be a Dodger. It's just becoming increasingly clear that the club will be getting grumpy Manny. Fans gotta hope that's worth it.
SF GIants Examiner Theo Fightmaster has some thoughts on this saga, too.
UPDATE 12:05 p.m. PST: Tony Jackson rips Frank McCourt for "making an offer that they HAD TO KNOW wouldn't be accepted." Why not? Because ...
[Manny] would receive $10 million this year, with the other $15 million deferred, and $10 million NEXT year and the other $10 million deferred. If Manny had exercised the option year, he would have gotten $10 million in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and $5 million in 2013.
Yes, that offer is not what the Dodgers originally offered, $45 million for two years with various out clauses and options with no deferrments. But that is hardly a greivous insult to Manny. It's still the best offer he has on the table at the moment because it's the only offer.
Looks like McCourt can play hardball in negotiations, too. And if Manny has to "suffer" a bit because his jerk of an agent has been playing games with the Dodgers for months ... well, cry me a river.
UPDATE 4:15 p.m. PST: The indefatigable Tony Jackson strikes again, reporting a source that says "Boras asked Dodgers to increase offer to $55 million"
And that, according to a well-placed source with knowledge of the situation, is where the whole thing broke down. This source also said that it was BORAS, not the Dodgers, who requested as far back as last fall that a portion of the money be deferred so that the total value of the package could be greater.
Well, that kind of throws water on Tony's take from earlier today ripping the McCourts for moving the goalposts. Anyway, Tony continues ...
At the end of Wednesday's meeting at Dodger Stadium, it was made clear to Boras that while there was no firm deadline, club officials expected to hear back from him in response to their two-year, $45 million offer, and that they only wanted to hear one of two possible answers: yes or no. Instead, Boras came back to them with a counter proposal of increasing the offer to two years and $55 million, a deal that would carry an average annual value of $27.5 million -- the exact same AAV carried by the 10-year, $275 million contract of Alex Rodriguez, another Boras client.
Typical Boras. And it looks like i read the situation correctly. The McCourts not only expected Boras to give a yes or no answer — meaning the back and forth stuff was overwith — but they explicitly told him so. And, again, The Jerk came through with his jerkiness and game-playing — all to the detriment of his client.
Dude. Give it up. Manny's not getting A-Rod money. No one is going to get A-Rod money, not for a long time.
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