I Was Right, Dodgers Are Wrong

It is about the money. However, not in the way I was thinking. From Scott Boras:

"We exchanged three proposals over the last 10 days," Boras said in an interview with MLB.com early Friday morning. "We made a recent proposal [Thursday night] as I learned the Dodgers stated they'd offered two years at $45 million. I wanted to let them know that we would be accepting that offer in the structure that I'd heard of."

"We are continuing to work within the scope of the parameters established during our discussion Wednesday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, which included a two-year term and ability for the player to void the contract after the first year," Boras said in the e-mail message sent to media members.

"Per that face to face meeting, we agreed to continue to have discussions until Friday at noon, which included our two proposals today, our most recent at two-years, $45 million. We are waiting to hear their response."

Great! Boras even let the Dodgers know that "we would be accepting." Then it gets reported that the Dodgers wanted to defer most of the money that was owed to Manny in 2008, possibly paying him as little as $10 million.

When asked on Thursday whether the $25 million for the coming season would make Ramirez the second highest paid player in baseball behind Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Colletti simply said, "yes."

Technically, that's correct. In actuality, though, the deal as structured by the Dodgers would pay Ramirez $10 million in actual cash for 2009 with the remaining $15 million deferred, according to the source.

How stupid can the Dodgers get? They stuck to their guns in both monetary and yearly limits, got Boras to agree with them on those terms, and then pulled this crap! Don't "start from scratch" you idiots. Sack up and give the man his due. Sell one of your beach houses if you have too Franky. I can't twist in the wind much longer.