2000, when he left the Mariners and signed a record 10 year - 252 million dollar contract with Tom Hicks and the Texas Rangers. I live in Seattle, and lived here then. A-Rod kept saying to the Seattle Times press during the 2000 season, that he wanted to talk extension after the season and that it WASN'T GOING TO BE ABOUT MONEY. Yeah right, he turned into pay-rod, because Boras and his agency created all of these charts, and multi-color graphs, that Corporations use for Corporate mergers, etc. He showed what A-Rod's future stats will be, etc. and that he will eventually be a Hall of Famer, and he basically created this unreal market price for A-Rod and put it on a line, well, Tom Hicks took a bite from it, and thus set into motion Pay-Rod, a guy who went from making 5 million a year in Seattle to the 20-30 million dollar a year range, just based on the HYPE that Boras created. Now, when the question is posed, is A-Rod worth the kinda money he is getting paid with the Yankees,
2007-12-26
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