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It's never easy in New York
by , 09-22-2015 at 01:41 PM (2094 Views)
If for some strange reason the Mets don't reach the World Series, much less get out of the Division Series (likely vs. the Dodgers), don't be hating and blaming it on manager Terry Collins and GM Sandy Alderson. There's only one real candidate for blame, and that is the greediest piece of human flotsam there is. Scott "20 Mule Team" Boras.
About three or four weeks ago, Boras whined in the press about Mets ace Matt Harvey, one of his bazillion clients (read: brainwashed boobs), approaching an innings limit, and demanding that Harvey be shut down once he reached that limit. He claims it has nothing to do with the debacle surrounding another of his clients, Washington's Stephen Strasburg, 3 years ago. The Nationals were knocked out in the NLDS as a result, despite the yeoman effort of Ross Detwiler, who replaced Strasburg in the rotation. Boras is blowing a lot of hot air in regards to innings limits. It's all about down the road with this scum. He wants to pimp his clients out for free agency later, when he can fleece other teams and continue to count his ill-gained fortune. He lives vicariously through those clients to realize the money he never made in the bigs, but that act has gone stale.
I haven't forgotten how he fleeced the Yankees with Kevin Brown a few years back. Brown was on the downside of his career, and Boras still tricked the Yanks into overpaying for him. Need I also add the ginormous contract he scammed out of Tom Hicks in Texas for A-Roid (Alex Rodriguez)?
The bottom line: Boras also plays his clients for fools, like Harvey, Strasburg, etc., selling them a bunch of lies to get them on board. They buy into his rhetoric, and there's no stopping him from adding other patsies. Or is there?
The Players Association doesn't mind, as long as he makes their membership rich, but you have to believe some owners are already tiring of Boras' act, and might consider taking action. What he's doing amounts to a glorified shell game that only he wins. If I was 30 years younger and in better shape, and this piece of trash tried to sign me as a client, I'd give him some advice, courtesy of The Rock:
KNOW YOUR ROLE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I wouldn't give him the time of day.
And, then, there is the curse that comes with the commercials Giants QB Eli Manning has done for Toyota and DirecTV in recent years. Part of the reason Eli ain't playing well the first two weeks of the season isn't so much issues with the offense, but that he's, well, distracted by the endorsement deals and the idiotic commercials he's done the last few years, one of the few exceptions being the Oreo ads he did with his brother, Peyton. While the Jets are 2-0, the Giants are 0-2, but these two teams will meet again this season, and by then, things could change, although personally, at this point, I doubt it. I don't know who Eli's agent is, if it ain't his dad, Archie, but whomever it is needs to get a freakin' clue and let his prize client focus on job 1, winning games.
Is it career regression, 12 seasons in? Perhaps, but he's had these fits of regression since winning his 2nd Super Bowl. The micro-scrutinizing by the NY tabloid press ain't helping, either. You have to remember the Giants don't have Victor Cruz ready to play yet, and that's another part of the problem. Part of the issue, team-wide, methinks, is psychological. We'll see starting Thursday when they play the Washington "Congressionals" if this changes. If not, it doesn't mean the season is lost, contrary to one headline on Monday. Not with the division as weak as it is.
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