Josh Hamilton has talked about giving away tens of millions of the $125 million he just received from the Los Angeles Angels in free agency. Could he really do that? And what might it mean if he did?
Everyone is getting paid. Some people are getting traded. The Mets ownership group is performing some sort of mean-spirited Dadaist prank on the very idea of baseball. Sam Horn springs fully formed and hungry for burgers from the head of David Raposa. Business as usual.
It has become a crucial part of free agent etiquette and basic not-seeming-like-a-jerk PR: players leaving a longtime team take the time and spend the standard rates to take out a newspaper ad thanking the fans they're leaving behind. It's a nice enough idea, but where did it come from?
After years of overpaying for scoring and height, it appears that NBA front offices have finally discovered that although size does matter, it is skill that makes the ball go round.
Pujols was the mega-prize of basbeall's offseason, its climax; Battier is the most notable NBA free agent to be linked to a new team, signaling that this frantic period of player movement has begun.
