This could be it's own reality show. The bidders will be:

Angels - have been reluctant to make the 'big move' since Vlad. Could this be the one?
Dodgers - built around young budding superstars and pitching. This big market team can afford him.
Yankees - have publicly said if he opts out they won't pursue. As long as old George is kicking, this is a lie.
Red Sox - Been there, done that. Lowell will likely re-sign and Lugo isn't going anywhere. Longshot.
Cubs - Trib is throwing $$ around like it's nothing and then plan to sell the team. Possibility.
Giants - need marketable superstar to replace Bonds. However, after giving $texas for Zito, where will the needed $$$/years come from.
Mets - always a wild-card for A-Rod. Grew up an avid Mets fan and offered sizable discount to Mets before signing with Texas. Could be very real player if A-Rod gives year discount. I can see the Mets offering a 5-6 year, $30M per deal. Will it be enough?

My guess: Angels.

10/10/2007 5:23:46 PM

probably the angels, maybe the cubs

10/10/2007 5:25:27 PM

I agree with the Angels

I think A-Rod and Boston clash too much even though the Sox are one of the few teams that can afford him

The Mets...why would you want to play for the 2nd best team in the biggest city in the country when you're already playing for the best team?

10/10/2007 5:25:48 PM

wonder how long it will be until Jaybee1200 is going to come in here and start talking about Tennessee back court.

10/10/2007 5:27:35 PM

They were his favorite team growing up and he has said his dream was to play for them.

Why would anyone choose to play in a shit-stained stadium in a fourth-rate midwestern city where the city hero was a fat fuck who beat his wife?

I'm going to rub one out AT the mound at Shea Stadium if we get A-Rod and Johan this offseason.

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 5:29 PM. Reason : x]

10/10/2007 5:28:38 PM

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"I'm going to rub one out AT the mound at Shea Stadium if we get A-Rod and Johan this offseason."

johan and zito in the same rotation? that'll be nasty

oh wait

10/10/2007 5:30:28 PM

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"Why would anyone choose to play in a shit-stained stadium in a fourth-rate midwestern city where the city hero was a fat fuck who beat his wife?"

cause they got more WS's than the Mets in the last 35 years

10/10/2007 5:32:01 PM

the mets will get him

story over and done.

10/10/2007 5:36:37 PM

Yanks will put up an offer of $150 mill over 5 years...doubt anybody will match it.

10/10/2007 8:09:56 PM

I can't see him staying with the Yankees.

Some team like the Dodgers I think. A big-market team that has been stuck in mediocrity for awhile (Cubs don't count).

10/10/2007 9:36:44 PM

Tampa! He would double their payroll lol

10/10/2007 9:45:42 PM

i want the cubs to get him

10/10/2007 11:04:05 PM

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"They were his favorite team growing up and he has said his dream was to play for them."

Jesus fucking christ. When I saw the the title of this thread, then who made it I said to myself....

"Self, there is no way NyM would even possibly think the Mets will either go after him, or even have a chance of signing him"


Sure enough, I click, and to my shagrin, you actually had them listed.


If its always been his dream, he would have been playing there by now.

He will never play for the Mets, so just end that dream right now kid.


He is either going to re-sign with the Yanks or go to the Cubs. That rumor about what they were gonna offer him didn't come out of no where. And its common knowledge he wants to play for Lou.

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 11:28 PM. Reason : .]

10/10/2007 11:26:20 PM

shagrin

10/10/2007 11:29:24 PM

It saddens me as a life long Braves fan, that A-Rod, arguably THE BEST player in the past 10 years has hit the FA market twice in said years, and the Braves have never been mentioned in the running for him. Thank you AOL for fucking up what was once a great and very succesful franchise. Ted would have never let this guy get away from him twice.


Corporate ownership in basbeball needs to be done away with. Worst fucking thing ever.

^ I know GN! I have never had to spell the word before, so I didn't feel like looking it up.

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 11:32 PM. Reason : .]

10/10/2007 11:31:06 PM

paying a-rod $25 million wouldn't help the braves at all

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 11:33 PM. Reason : ]

10/10/2007 11:33:06 PM

Having A-Rod sure wouldn't hurt them. And when a multi billion $ company owns you, you would think they would throw a little more into the team. I think that is one reason the Braves attendance has been down so much the past years. Ever since Ted lost control of the team, the corporates, have only done enough to compete, they have not done enough to win. brings me back to this. A few years ago, I think it was around 2003, AOL spent around $15mil on commercials during the SuperBowl but let Sheffield leave instead of signing him when he had been by far their best player the year before. My years and #s could be a little off, but you get my point. Paying $25mil to A-Rod would obviously help the Braves, because if a company didn't own them, it wouldn't be an issue.

It just pisses me off as a Braves fan to see so many great free agents hit the market the past 7 or 8 years and the Braves not sign ANY of them. They seem to only make trades, then let the players they trade for walk after they refuse to pay them their market value.

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 11:41 PM. Reason : .]

10/10/2007 11:39:09 PM

I dont want Arod. I dont want to pay 25+mil for another choke artist.

10/10/2007 11:39:13 PM

i hate corporate ownership as much as the next guy, but not even billionaire ted would blow $25 million on a-rod, the money would be much better spent elsewhere

and a-rod, as awesome as he is, has been shit when it counts

i was gonna make a weak 'hell, i'd rather have a jeff blauser than an a-rod' rant, but then i looked up blauser's numbers

dude had a career postseason line of .148/.303/.259

10/10/2007 11:43:30 PM

Does anyone else think its hilarious that NyM said the Mets? I am still laughing!

10/10/2007 11:50:32 PM

they're paying beltran and delgado 13.5 million each, i wouldn't put it past them

10/10/2007 11:56:35 PM

Not really putting it past the METS, I am putting it past A-Rod. He is obviously chasing a ring. You would not leave the Yanks to go to the Mets. Has a player of his caliber ever even done this? NY or Chicago? I cant recall a player in the prime of their career leaving the better and more popular team for the cities bottom feeder. Their manager situation is hilarious, their team is totally out of whack, and they are 2nd teir in NY. Like I said, if his life long dream was to play there, he would be there by now. Cubs are gonna get him, if not, then he stays a Yankee.

And yes, I know the White Sox have been better, but you know what I meant. The WS are shit in Chicago.

That is one team that NEEDS to be moved.

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 12:02 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 12:01:45 AM

Why? They're the only team that has brought the city an ounce of pride in the last 100 years.

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 12:11 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 12:10:39 AM

haha, you have obviously never been to Chicago.

10/11/2007 12:46:54 AM

Tennessee has a heck of a backcourt this year...

10/11/2007 12:52:36 AM

the white sox are not shit in chicago, lawls

^^^aside from the six peat
[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 1:00 AM. Reason : and I live in chicago, 2800 north]

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 1:04 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 12:59:46 AM

The funniest part is, they aren't.

10/11/2007 1:00:56 AM

I'm not a white sox fan but I'm not a cubs fan either and you clearly have no idea of chicago aside from what jay mariotti of the SUN TIMES feeds you on pti

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 1:10 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 1:01:53 AM

wasnt he agreeing?

10/11/2007 1:14:11 AM

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"Does anyone else think its hilarious that NyM said the Mets? I am still laughing!"

All trolling aside, why is that funny? They are mentioned nearly every time the A-Rod Sweepstakes is. And which NYC team has been closer to a world championship the past 2 years?

I already said I don't think he'll be a Met but to act like they won't be involved in this is just flat dumb...

Ernie... You act like paying Beltran 13.5M isn't worth it... some stupid team is going to pay Andruw .220 Jones upwards of $20M per...

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"If its always been his dream, he would have been playing there by now. "

If Wilpon hadn't made a chump offer he would be... Omar has changed the Wilpon's but not enough to pay A-Rod what he'll be asking..

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 1:36 AM. Reason : x]

10/11/2007 1:35:34 AM

my only thought is if he leaves the Yankees its to leave NY... not just the Yankees, so the Mets make no sense

10/11/2007 1:49:34 AM

^EXACTLY!!!!

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"All trolling aside, why is that funny? They are mentioned nearly every time the A-Rod Sweepstakes is"

Thats why its hilarious to everyone on here but you. You fail to see the humor in such a ridiculous statment.

10/11/2007 2:29:42 AM

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"Ernie... You act like paying Beltran 13.5M isn't worth it..."

at least we can agree on delgado

how long is beltran under contract? two-three more years?

he's over 30, i wouldn't be surprised to see his numbers slowly regress to his '05 totals (no hatin)

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"some stupid team is going to pay Andruw .220 Jones upwards of $20M per"

yeah, not mine though

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^it's not a joke to me, minaya is desperate enough to make a $30m mistake

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 2:38 AM. Reason : ]

10/11/2007 2:37:45 AM

This is a wasted thread as he will stay with the Yanks make 150 mil or so for 5 years and him and Jeter will sail into into the sunset together...especially since they will have the starting rotation next year of .....Wang - Andy P, Hughes, Joba, and Ian Kennedy......

10/11/2007 8:48:03 AM

He's going to the Royals y'all.


Basically, it'll be a one man show, since that's all they can afford. He'll play all the positions, pitch, and catch. Can't wait to see his offensive numbers. He'll have a good 40 - 50 at bats a game.

10/11/2007 10:01:40 AM

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"It saddens me as a life long Braves fan, that A-Rod, arguably THE BEST player in the past 10 years has hit the FA market twice in said years, and the Braves have never been mentioned in the running for him. Thank you AOL for fucking up what was once a great and very succesful franchise. Ted would have never let this guy get away from him twice"

The Braves were the Runner up for the last ARod Sweepstakes, if Boras hadn't gone directly to the owner of the Rangers above GM John Hart's head. He signed for the 252 Mil and his next highest offer was 126 Mil from the Braves.

10/11/2007 10:12:25 AM

Ted wouldn't have paid for him and Ted SHOULDN'T have paid for him. He's a great player, arguably the greatest current and, by the time he retires, I'm certain he'll be the greatest player that ever lived.

However, I wouldn't want to sacrifice so much for one guy. We were having trouble paying Andruw's salary while he's hitting .216. We'd be paying ARods for .188 in the playoffs.

10/11/2007 10:14:58 AM

at least you'd get to the playoffs

10/11/2007 10:39:12 AM

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"The Braves were the Runner up for the last ARod Sweepstakes, if Boras hadn't gone directly to the owner of the Rangers above GM John Hart's head. He signed for the 252 Mil and his next highest offer was 126 Mil from the Braves. "

And look at how well that worked out for the Rangers...

10/11/2007 10:40:17 AM

^^ We won the division for 14/16 seasons. I'll take that any day of the week.

10/11/2007 10:43:56 AM

^of course...but comparing A-Rod to Andruw? A-Rod >>> Andruw

10/11/2007 10:50:10 AM

I'd love if the Cubs would pick him up.

Gosh JayBee1200, always talking about Tennessee back court

10/11/2007 10:50:47 AM

^^ ARods paycheck >>>>> Andruw's paycheck


That's where the comparison is. I don't think it's worth paying arod all that money.

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 11:16 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 11:16:29 AM

anyone who says they would not want A-Rod on their team is fucking stupid and trolling

10/11/2007 11:22:25 AM

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"especially since they will have the starting rotation next year of .....Wang - Andy P, Hughes, Joba, and Ian Kennedy......"

That probably won't be a playoff rotation. Way too young and inexperienced.

10/11/2007 1:16:21 PM

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"anyone who says they would not want A-Rod on their team is fucking stupid and trolling"

A+ reading comprehension.

I said that FOR HIS PRICE, I don't want to sacrifice good pitching for a single player. Anyone who wants to even try to acquire A-Rod on the Braves' current salary cap is fucking stupid and trolling.

10/11/2007 1:19:49 PM

NyM410 - you are probably correct.....but that is my hope....we will see...need to get some young blood in that old pitching staff...Lose Clemmens, & Moose.... both had great careers with Roger arguably being one of the best pitcher all time....but it's time for them to go.

10/11/2007 2:28:46 PM

Great line about A-Rod's futility in the playoffs today from Bayless. In his last 59 playoff ABs, he has had 38 runners on base and driven in exactly ZERO runners. Good God that is just plain awful. Even Rafael Belliard could have managed an to drive in atleast one person.

Also if the Mets get A-Rod, I will laugh because it'll probably make their team worse. If they get Santana, I will cry because it will make their team significantly better.

10/11/2007 2:42:58 PM

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" Even Rafael Belliard could have managed an to drive in atleast one person"

he probably would...of course thats irrelevant since they probably wouldn't even make the playoffs without A-Rod

10/11/2007 3:44:35 PM

rafael belliard is the worst baseball player ever

and this is treetwista's lamest troll attempt ever

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 3:47 PM. Reason : ]

10/11/2007 3:46:17 PM