There's a line in the movie "As Good As It Gets" that comes to mind these days.
Jack Nicholson's character tells someone at his front door with the phrase "Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here..."
That's just what someone needs to tell Scott Boras. This is the guy who is a super-agent to star athletes. Owners and general managers hate him because of his outlandish contract demands. Stud athletes love him because he gets those outlandish, long-term contracts with Monopoly money type dollars.
Just in the last three weeks of 2019 alone, Boras had a billion dollar offseason, getting deals for Mike Moustakas (four years, $64 million), Stephen Strasburg (seven years, $245 million), Garrit Cole (nine years, $324 million), Anthony Rendon (seven years, $245 million), Dallas Keuchel (three years, $55.5 million) and Hyun-Jin Ryo (four years, $80 million). Even if all Boras got was eight percent, that's a cool $80 million in his pocket.
No wonder Boras is worth $450 million. And why he has jumped in to save the day for baseball fans everywhere. Riding in his white charger, Boras, has a plan to rescue baseball with a full 162-game schedule. OR a 140-some-game schedule. Either way, it A) saves the game and B) saves those big, big contracts for his clients (and his cut, but let's not quibble).
His solution? Simply play baseball until late December. His logic? There's plenty of warm-weather cities, along with teams with domed stadiums (are you listening Milwaukee Brewer fans?) to make it happen. And hell, yeah, we can play the World on a neutral site.
Can you picture fans of, say, the New York Yankees getting behind this? Or Chicago Cub fans? Or any fan in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Minnesota. Pretty much any Northern fan is just gonna jump up and down with glee for the right to freeze in November.
As they get the pitchforks and torches ready, I'm sure fans (and teams) would be MORE than happy to give up home field advantage for the playoffs.
I say we tar and feather the doofus and run him out of town on a rail. Who's with me?
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