Boras announced during Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night that A-Rod was opting out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees. The timing left baseball officials livid, and Boras apologized Monday evening, just after Rodriguez filed with the players' association and became a free agent for the first time since 2000.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=3084690
Rodriguez's contract called for him to receive $24 million from the Yankees in each of the next three seasons, money offset by $21.3 million the Rangers agreed to pay as part of the trade. In addition, Rodriguez's contract called for $3 million from the Rangers in deferred money in each of the next three years.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/10/30/bc.bba.yankees.rodriguez.ap/
It's official A-Hole has opted out of his contract. In the past 7 years he has earned $180M (includes bonuses) of the 10 year $252M contract he signed with the Rangers in 2001. He has decided to leave $81M over the next 3 years in reported hopes of getting $300M over 10 years. There's greed and then there's insatiable gluttonous greed.
Where's Jeff Gillooly when you need him. Nothing would make me happier than someone taking a crowbar to A-Hole's knees. Oh, I'm sorry, are you not under contract, did you just see a guaranteed $100M fly out the door never to be seen again. Suck it A-Hole!!!
In case anyone wants to hire him, Gillooly changed his name to Jeff Stone, at least that's what Wikipedia says, so it's gotta be true.
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