Long New Yorker profile on Scott Boras

[Mplssoxfan]

Link.

 

Good read, but it'll take a lot of your time.

[daa84]

Link.

 

Good read, but it'll take a lot of your time.

something on the first page of that article is a reason for every white sox fan to hope that Arod could actually be a white sox...

 

You know what this business is about, guys? We’ve gone from, when I came into it, an industry that made, economically, about five hundred million dollars, and we went to a billion in 1990. We went to three billion in 2000. And now we’re near six billion in 2007. What it says for all of us in this room is this: We’re doing a good job with the game. We’re growing the game, as it should be grown.

 

this is really what boras has done brilliantly...he has convinced teams (and some rightfully so) that baseball economics today are so different than they were just 10-15 years ago....people claim footballs popularity has overtaken baseball, but baseball (with alot of credit to bud selig and even jerry reinsdorf) has been just a booming business in the past decade or so with continual growth....and a good business man like jerry reinsdorf man knows this and will use that economic growth to continue to invest in a better product, which is a big reason why our payroll has gone over 100 million....of course the world series had alot to do with that as well...but how many times in basbeall history have teams basically increased their payroll by 30-50% in the course of a few years? only recently, and it has less to do with teams making it to the series than it does with the booming business of baseball

Edited October 29, 2007 by daa84

[knightni]

They missed the part where he drowns kittens and bites the heads off of parakeets for fun.