and now the Yankees can come in with a "if you sign by midnight tonite we'll go to 7/180 and throw in a set of ginsu steak knives ... otherwise we might have to back off completely ... "
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Originally posted by eldiablo505And if he ends up taking the $175M deal from the Yanks, he will have cost his client $50M. Sure, the Bhobs and JCs will spin it in a pro-NY light but that would be a legendary fail. I'd be surprised if more high-profile free agents would ever want to sign with Roc Nation after that kind of an embarrassing debacle.
Then again, JZ can say screw it, we'll take whatever the Mariners come up with - 225 or thereabouts - and try to put a winning spin on that. But I gotta believe that is not the win they're looking for.It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505And if he ends up taking the $175M deal from the Yanks, he will have cost his client $50M. Sure, the Bhobs and JCs will spin it in a pro-NY light but that would be a legendary fail. I'd be surprised if more high-profile free agents would ever want to sign with Roc Nation after that kind of an embarrassing debacle.
I'm not trying to "spin" anything. It is obviously bad if Cano loses out on 50mil. But we don't know how serious he really was about going to Seattle in the first place. Was he really prepared to take 9/225 before Jay-Z opened his mouth and torpedoed things? Or was that all planned ahead of time?
Cano says he won't give the Yankees a hometown discount. If that's true and the Mariners really still have their offer on the table, he has to take it. But if the Ms pulled their offer, it's not a hometown discount if the Yankees' offer is the only offer.
I expect we'll probably see Jay-Z try to stir up some interest in other places (LAA, DET, TEX, NYM I guess) before anything is decided.
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Cano is a Mariner -- 10/240 according to ESPNDeportes
The second baseman Robinson Cano and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to sign a contract for 10 years and $ 240 million, a source of said full credit toESPNdeportes.com .
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$24 million a year is a lot of dead money for a franchise like Seattle when Cano is done after 7 seasons or so. Cano signed his ticket out of NY when he left Boras for Jay-Z. There was something not right about the Yanks perceived lack of interest in negociating with Cano's group. I really don't think they cared whether he stayed or left.
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Originally posted by Moonlight J View PostCano is a Mariner -- 10/240 according to ESPNDeportes
The second baseman Robinson Cano and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to sign a contract for 10 years and $ 240 million, a source of said full credit toESPNdeportes.com .It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.
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I won't believe it until the Mariners and Jay-Z confirm it, and probably not until the deal is signed and approved by MLB. Too much soap opera.Only the madman is absolutely sure. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (1932-2007)
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
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