Article from Houston

[Guest Beenso]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/3285544

[metsmarathon]

i was gonna post that. i was waiting for the KTE.

re: the article:

jeez, bitter much?

i guess boras clientship has that affect on people...

[Elster88]

]When the Astros offered him $75 million over five years, a National League general manager said: "That's a fair offer. That's what we're willing to pay him." Beltran treated that offer as if it were minimum wage. After all, Vladimir Guerrero had signed with the Angels for $75 million. Boras let the Astros know that Beltran was a far better player than Guerrero. Except that he's not. He's not nearly as good.

Sing it, sister.

[Guest Beenso]

Weren't the two offers almost identical dollarwise when tax was taken into play???

[metsmarathon]

that sounds oddly familiar.

but i couldnt possibly imagine a newpaper sports "journalist" would ever allow an actual proveable fact to get in the way of a perfectly good rant.

that would never happen.

[Guest ABG]

]Boras let the Astros know that Beltran was a far better player than Guerrero.

Far better? No, not at all. Far more marketable at the time they became a FA? Yes, certainly. So why wouldn't they expect more than what Vlad got?