Random Thoughts on a Thursday in March.....

Some random thoughts from yours truly...... - The Dodgers and Manny Ramirez finally reach a deal after 5 months of negotiations. My prediction is that fewer and fewer ballplayers are going to utilize the services of one Mr. Scott Boras going forward. He is the most difficult agent in sports to deal with. He's botched the Manny A-Rod and Varitek negotiations for his clients so future clients will take note. And there isn't a GM in baseball who wants to deal with this guy......to the point where if you are a team and you are drafting a player and Player A is very talented and represented by Scott Boras and Player B is less talented but represented by an agent who you are more likely to strike a deal with you are going to choose Player B. Just as we've seen some underground movement started to stay away from signing Barry Bonds it won't be long until GM's do everything in their power to avoid dealing with Boras. He's a royal pain with an ego larger than the players he represents. In the end the Dodgers did well by sticking to their guns and not budging off of their original $45M offer to Manny. Critics of the deal will tell you the Dodgers overpaid for Manny because they paid him $45M when Boras had no other suitors anywhere near the neighborhood of $45M but the Dodgers will sell a ton of Manny merchandise and Manny brings fans to the ballparks. Manny will be motivated as he can opt out after this season and he also has some career milestones he wants to hit before he retires. The bad news for Manny is that he'll never get what he's asking for this penthouse condo he's trying to sell in Boston...... - Credit Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. In the past few months he's rid his roster of the two biggest cancers that were KILLING his locker room - first Pacman Jones was released and last night word broke that he's cut Terrell Owens loose. TO is a talented wideout but he's more trouble than what he's worth. This was an expensive lesson for Jerry Jones who signed TO to a new deal just last year which included a $12M signing bonus. In the end Tony Romo and company will be much better off without TO around. Now the question will be whether any other team wants to take on the theatrics that come with TO and his agent Drew Rosenhaus. - Good news for AZ Cardinals fans that Kurt Warner will be sticking around for at least another year or two. Warner is a class act a great leader and still has a lot left in the tank as he showed last year. Always happy to see good guys like Warner get paid and be able to stay in the situations that are best for them.......and Arizona is the best situation for Warner. Warner to Fitzgerald will continue to be a lethal combination. - Cleveland and Boston have already clinched playoff spots and we are barely in March. Shows us just how dominant they have been this season. Kind of like D-Wade and LeBron who in my opinion are playing in a stratosphere we haven't seen in a long long time. I watched Wade again last night as I am in Miami this week and the game comes so easy to him. He had 19 points at the end of the first quarter and could have scored 70 if he decided to. Instead he matched his career high in assists with 16 and finished with 35 points. And now that LeBron has added the 3-point shot to his game he's almost unstoppable. When you go guard him at the 3-point line he goes around you and dunks in your grill. LeBron is 10-12 from the 3-point line in his last two games. Scary good.  

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