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jafabian said:
And I can certainly see Steinbrenner being arrogant enough to insist that the Rangers cover any sort of "compensation" for ARod leaving the Yanks.



Now, I do not claim expertise in the field of sports finance, but given that such an insistence would be so completely without justification or precedent, it wouldn't just be arrogant, it would be nonsensical.

However...I dunno, I guess nothing's impossible. Steinbrenner has probably done crazier things. Still, I can't see how the Rangers would be under any obligation to meet his request.

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Steinbrenner would probably argue he did the Rangers a favor by taking ARod off their hands and he isn't that far off on that.



Yes, yes he would be. He would be very far off. Very, very, very far off. So far off, he'd have passed off, circled on twice, and landed back towards the outest reaches of off again.

The Rangers lost the best player in the league. They gained a solid but not elite prospect, a lot less salary space than you'd probably guess, and a talented, but overpaid, underachieving, malcontent who refused to accomodate the organization and who conveniently changed positions and started playing like a star again after he was traded.

The idea that the organization unburdened itself financially by removing Alex Rodriguez is a myth, on three fronts: the first being that Alex was never a real burden, the second being that the main player they got in return was expensive himself, and the last being that the Rangers will still be paying part of Rodriguez's salary in 2025(yes, you read that right, 2025).

For a salary dump, they didn't dump that much salary, and for a talent exchange, they sent a lot more talent away than they got back.

Basically, it was job. A gyp. A heist. It was "Cashman's Eleven"(Steinbrenner's Eleven doesn't have the same punch), only in this metaphor Alex Rodriguez represents both Julia Roberts and the money.

Infact, it's probably a cross between Oceans Eleven and Deliverance, where Tom Hicks was Ned Beatty and Steinbrenner was Bill McKinney.

Steinbrenner hasn't done many people favors, I'd guess, and he certainly hasn't done the Rangers any.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.