ARod on opting out and Boras

Rodriguez said opting out was "a mistake that was handled extremely poorly."

"It was a huge debacle," he said, calling the timing "distasteful and very inappropriate."

A-Rod said Boras gave him the impression the Yankees weren't interested in bringing him back, which surprised him.

"Our goals were not aligned," Rodriguez said. "It felt funny to me."

He said he and Boras agreed the slugger would opt out of his deal, but Rodriguez thought the move would be revealed after the World Series.

"I made mistakes. I've got to look in the mirror. If I had to do it again, I would've called Hank from Day 1 and negotiated myself," Rodriguez said

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153171 it's an AP story.

 

What a crock. As if they wouldn't be interested in retaining the services of a guy chasing the home-run record who still is healthy.

 

First the WS and now this. A-Rod just can't help trumping the bigger baseball news.

 

Nicely played, ARod.

 

I'm sure the strippers of Toronto are backing Stray-Rod on this one.

 

Hilarious.

I'm half-surprised he didn't mention he had a chance to take steroids or talk to George Mitchell and didn't.

 

Not A-Rod thistime. The Yankees annouced the completion of the deal and scheduled the conference.

A good way for the Yanks to deflect attention away from Clemens, Pettitte, Giambi, Damon et al

 

Agreed. That's the reason why the Yankees announced it today and had A-Rod do the conference call, with the ground-rule to reporters being no questions on steriods/HGH/etc.

 

Can't he be both?

 

i agree that a-rod's full of crap and and naive when it comes to boras. let's see if he splits from boras now.

i also agree that the yanks took a big one for selig today, holding the official signing/phone presser to at least attempt to get the n.y. back pages away from mitchell/pettitte/clemens and onto the good news for their pinstripes. ol' george would be mighty proud of hank, if he still had any idea what was going on.

 

AP story says the following:

A-Rod earned $185.45 million over seven years.

Can anybody point me to a chart that breaks down that previous deal? I'm having trouble making that add up, compared to reporting at the time of his signing when still with the Rangers.