Winter Meetings Drama

[Edgy MD]

Who was in on the agent fight?

Name those agents now and win!

[dinosaur jesus]

Edgy MD wrote: Who was in on the agent fight? Name those agents now and win!

Scully and Mulder? 99 and Larabee? Albert Grossman and Colonel Tom Parker?

[Edgy MD]

There's a man who represents his client
If someone tries to steal his guys, he's vi'lent
With every move he makes
Another jaw he breaks
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man!
Secret Agent Man!
You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good name.

Beware of pretty faces that you find
Stealing clients with a sweet behind
Jay-Z, Shef, and Terry Bross
All know Boras is the boss
But odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man!
Secret Agent Man!
You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good name

Signing with the Red Sox pitcher one day
Then NASA jokes about the Mets the next day
But you don't let your clients down
With two fists in Miami town
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.

Secret Agent Man!
Secret Agent Man!
You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good NAME!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Apparently, the player-agent world is filthy with defections, particularly as players climb the earnings ladder. There's no regulation and little to stop a player from walking away or another agent from asking him to. With agents getting 5% of the action from contracts/endorsements, etc its real $$.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm surprised that I don't read about client poaching more frequently. With the money involved, the behind the scenes to the pro athlete/agent business has got to be ruthless and shady and outright filthy dirty.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Details, girlfriend, from Twitter provocateur/SB Nation writer Jeb Lund (aka "Mobute Sese Seko"), who just happened to be the closest person to the scene!!!!

This is when it got weird. The first man stopped in his tracks and turned around, and the second man walked up to him and... I'm not even sure how to phrase this. You know the University of Florida Gator Chomp? Well, he sort of did that. He stuck his left arm out, palm upturned and rigid, and he started just slapping it with his right palm with almost Pete Townshend-esque levels of arm windmilling. Hard. If you'd told me this guy was the front half of a two-man horse costume and thought he was counting by clopping down his hooves, I would have believed you. Then he screamed at the first man, "THIS IS HOW IT'S GONNA BE." And, I mean, I don't know, but, like, the first guy looked at him and said, "NO, THIS IS HOW IT'S GONNA BE," and then started doing the exact same thing back at the second guy. What is the sound of two morons clapping? This is how it's gonna be from now on. We're all just going to clap vertically. We're all going to look like assholes. Our hands are going to hurt for no reason.

The whole Terry Bross pimp thing (with Uggla and others) was supposedly an agent-poach move, right?