Comments on: You got to roll me http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: The Big Lead » blog » The Roundup: Kobe’s Back, Athletes as Cheers Characters, and Drugs http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3402 The Big Lead » blog » The Roundup: Kobe’s Back, Athletes as Cheers Characters, and Drugs Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:51:26 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3402 [...] One blogger who thinks Matsuzaka will sign with the Red Sox. (Seth Mnookin) [...] [...] One blogger who thinks Matsuzaka will sign with the Red Sox. (Seth Mnookin) [...]

]]> By: MarshallDog http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3354 MarshallDog Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:06:43 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3354 I'm pretty worried that this deal won't go through. My biggest concern is that Boras has no intention of even talking to the Red Sox again about Matsuzaka; his secretaries are probably instructed not to answer the phone until half an hour before the deadline. He probably hasn't even spoken to Matsuzaka to update him on the contract talks. I don't trust Boras at all. I think he might have gotten Matsuzaka as a client just so he could sabotage any potential deal and use that as proof that the posting system is bad for baseball. I’m pretty worried that this deal won’t go through. My biggest concern is that Boras has no intention of even talking to the Red Sox again about Matsuzaka; his secretaries are probably instructed not to answer the phone until half an hour before the deadline. He probably hasn’t even spoken to Matsuzaka to update him on the contract talks.

I don’t trust Boras at all. I think he might have gotten Matsuzaka as a client just so he could sabotage any potential deal and use that as proof that the posting system is bad for baseball.

]]> By: tinisoli http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3349 tinisoli Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:57:08 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3349 I feel a little sorry for the reporters who have to cover the Daisuke story, because they're essentially reduced to working for the PR departments of both the Sox and Boras. The Herald scoop is clearly coming from the Sox, and obviously Boras has played the media, too. At the end of the day on December 14 the Sox have the leverage, period. Boras will do whatever he can to suggest otherwise, not to be a dick but because it's in the best interest of himself and his client. If he simply acquiesced and admitted that the circumstances of this player, the posting system, and this player's culture were making it easy for the Sox, he'd be doing a terrible job as an agent. He's got to make it appear that the Daisuke just might say no. I feel a little sorry for the reporters who have to cover the Daisuke story, because they’re essentially reduced to working for the PR departments of both the Sox and Boras. The Herald scoop is clearly coming from the Sox, and obviously Boras has played the media, too. At the end of the day on December 14 the Sox have the leverage, period. Boras will do whatever he can to suggest otherwise, not to be a dick but because it’s in the best interest of himself and his client. If he simply acquiesced and admitted that the circumstances of this player, the posting system, and this player’s culture were making it easy for the Sox, he’d be doing a terrible job as an agent. He’s got to make it appear that the Daisuke just might say no.

]]> By: drleather2001 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3340 drleather2001 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:47:48 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/10/you-got-to-roll-me/#comment-3340 Isn't "Deal" technically a Jerry Garcia solo song? Also, it does look like the yearly salaries of 6's, 7's, and 9's ($million) won't quite hack it. sorry, couldn't help it. <i>It's an interesting question, and depends on how you define ownership as far as Dead/JGB songs go. I'd say this is a Dead tune: as far as I know, they introduced it <a href="http://www.setlists.net/?search=true&venue=&city=&state=&month=2&day=19&year=71&songs=&submit=Search">at this show in Port Chester, New York in 1971</a> (that show also featured the first Bird Song) and it's associated much more with the Dead than with JGB. In fact, I'd say almost all of the songs on <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002VJL/ref=m_art_pr_8/104-2454881-1263165">Garcia</i></a> are generally regarded as Dead songs, while the songs on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Under-Stars-Jerry-Garcia/dp/B000002VFC"><i>Cats Under the Stars</i></a>, for whatever reason, never made it into the band's repertoire. I know...you were only joking. But, you know... -- Seth </i> Isn’t “Deal” technically a Jerry Garcia solo song?

Also, it does look like the yearly salaries of 6’s, 7’s, and 9’s ($million) won’t quite hack it.

sorry, couldn’t help it.

It’s an interesting question, and depends on how you define ownership as far as Dead/JGB songs go. I’d say this is a Dead tune: as far as I know, they introduced it at this show in Port Chester, New York in 1971 (that show also featured the first Bird Song) and it’s associated much more with the Dead than with JGB. In fact, I’d say almost all of the songs on Garcia are generally regarded as Dead songs, while the songs on Cats Under the Stars, for whatever reason, never made it into the band’s repertoire.

I know…you were only joking. But, you know…

– Seth

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