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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
In a move to match the lack of class which the Yankees have displayed lately (see the lowball contract offered to Torre), AR declares that he is opting out on the very day that Red Sox win it all.
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Peter Gammons' reaction to the announcement was absolutely spectacular. I don't know if you saw it, but Gammons was reporting live from Coors after the game for ESPN. The studio anchor asked him about the A-Rod thing and Gammons said, well, he might go to Anaheim or the Giants, blah, blah, blah. . . "but the really sad thing here is the total disrespect for the game of baseball" by A-Rod and Boras. And he said we should be talking about Pedroia and Ellsbury who did something that A-Rod has never done -- play in a World Series; and that the timing of the announcement should be a "buyer beware". Talk about body slamming a guy on national TV.
I also agree with you that telling the Yankees by fax is not a big deal. Not b/c the Yankees management "deserves respect" or whatever; but b/c everybody knew (or should have known) that he was going to opt out. There wasn't the least possible chance that he was going to stay with the current contract. Why? Two words -- Scott Boras. If anybody in the Yankee front office thought that Boras would let A-Rod stay in that contract, then
they still believe in the Easter Bunny, too.