Well, it wouldn’t be an off-season without a little signing drama. Joe Beimel and the Dodgers still haven’t worked out their monetary differences, according to a story in the Daily News today.
The arbitration hearing for Dodgers reliever Joe Beimel is scheduled for Feb. 9 in Phoenix, leaving team officials nine days to negotiate an agreement to avoid what would be the club’s first such hearing in three years.
Beimel, who made $425,000 last season, is seeking $1.25 million for 2007. The Dodgers filed at $912,500, leaving a gap of $337,500. Talks aimed at reducing that gap appear to have reached an impasse.
And if Joe’s agent Joe Sroba was spinning any harder about BeimelGate during the playoffs, his head would fly off:
“How they choose to use that is up to them,” Sroba said. “We will certainly be responsive to it. It isn’t a positive thing for us, but it was an unfortunate accident.”
Yes, how unfortunate that those lies kept popping out of his mouth. Accidentally.
Speaking of agent spin, here’s the master talking about how the Cardinals didn’t want to be stupid act fairly:
“We just wanted to be treated fairly,” said [Scott] Boras, who cited the four-year, $32 million contract given Derrek [sic] Lowe by the Dodgers after the 2004 season and the three-year, $24.5 million received last month by free-agent starter Adam Eaton from Philadelphia as markers for Weaver’s value.
In the dictionary under “crocodile tears”, there’s a picture of Scott Boras eating a crocodile.
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