When I see how much harm Enron did in the documentary "The Smartest guys in the room", and all because of greed, lets' put this into perspective.
It IS about the love of the game. Or the love of stats, but this guys can play and he puts his heart and soul into it. You don't become the best regular season player in the game if there was no love.
But he did two things that reek of Scott Boras-
1) He announces during a career year that he will opt out of his contract if the Yankess do not negotiate before the season ended, something they said they would not do with ANY of their pending free agents, thus putting a gun to Yankee management knowing this would create problems. This was nothing more than a clash of egomaniacs between Boras and Yankee management.
2) He announces during the World Series that he indeed will opt out, making him look like he wanted to steal Bostons' thunder and grab the spotlight for himself.
He will forever be seen as a selfish, me-first player for this. But this is NOT what troubles me about him.
He has shown, PROVEN to the whole world that he has no heart during the playoffs and CANNOT get it done when it counts. He can take you to the playoffs, but he will never be a Big Pappi or Manny Ramirez when it comes to post-season performance.
But what do you want out of him? Humility? Please, hes' got Scott Boras as an agent and his wife publicly showed support for him after he dangled that stripper in front of her. Everyone here is selfish, not just him.
And when we are talking about that type of money, enough is never enough. Thats' just human nature and I do not fault any of them for that. They ALL want to get paid, that is life.
He just went about it in a manner that shows a lack of class. And if he can't perform during the playoffs, to me he is not worth the money he will get.
But hey, this is baseball, not real life. I will save the denunciations for our greedy politicians and their involvement with companies like Enron, because their greed is what will have an adverse effect on my life, not A-Rod getting 30 mil a year.