Tim’s Talk — A-Rod Torre??? Rangers Have More Money

How much money is too much nowadays to pay a baseball player in the major leagues?

Alex Rodriquez decided to opt out of his New York Yankee contract with three years remaining, cutting short the $252 million he would have earned. He will now get around $180 million for the seven years and probably another $1.8 million this year for post-season awards.

I guess A-Rod thinks that he can sign another five-year contract with another loaded team like the radio rumored California Angels for millions more than he’s worth.

I guess the price of hot dogs, beer, tickets etc.. will continue to soar like the price of oil as long as MLB teams continue to dish out the big bucks.

REALLY, HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH??

Joe Torre is truly a class act in the game of baseball.

He has already spoken with Joe Giraldi and wished him well with the Yankee managerial position.

Don Mattingly has already told the Yankees he had no desire to return next year as bench coach or any other coaching position.

Even though Tony Pena had more managing experience within the organization, the Yankees opted to go with Giraldi.

Personally, I would love to see Joe Torre go to an organization like the Pittsburgh Pirates and develop their young pitching staff and players.

JUST MY OPINION AND MY WISHFUL THINKING…I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING..JOE TORRE IN PITTSBURGH…YOU BROKE THREE RIBS ON THAT ONE….LOL.

Finally my home team folks have an early Christmas bonus of $21.3 million due to A-Rod opting to rob the economy again.

Most Ranger fans are saying to GO GET SOME PITCHING!!!

Well, I strongly disagree with that philosophy.

The last two years, the Rangers have brought in Padilla and Milwood on pretty high wages and neither have performed very well. Milwood has a .500 record the past two years and Padilla has a 21-20 record with an ERA of over five.

WHY NOT…WHY NOT…spend some of this money on more scouts and continue to develop within the farm system itself..

NOW, THIS COULD WORK!!

Anyhow, just one man’s opinion on personnel in baseball and the cost involved for us poor folks who still enjoy watching the game….from home!