The White Sox pull their offer to Damon; Boras pleads with the Tigers

[joeybee12]

well it ain't figure skating, but I figured someone here might be interested.



ESPN Chicago's Bruce Levine reports that the White Sox have pulled their offer to Johnny Damon:


"It became clear to us in our recent negotiations that the money that we were offering was not going to be good enough for Johnny at this time," White Sox general manager Kenny Williams told ESPNChicago.com. "At this particular point, we feel it's necessary to withdraw our offer."


The White Sox made a $6 million offer for Damon, according to major league sources.

Meanwhile, Buster Olney tweets the following:


Heard this: Scott Boras is now working a two-pronged approach on the Tigers. No. 1 -- he'd like to get Detroit to remove all deferred money out of their one-year, $7 million offer. Or No. 2, he'd wants Ilitch to actually give Damon legitimate second year in their offer.

I call it "pleading" in the headline because it cannot properly be called a negotiation when one person wants concessions but has utterly no leverage and nothing to give up in return. The White Sox are out of the picture. The Tigers have made a one-year deferred-money offer. Take it or leave it, Boras.

Earlier today Tigers' GM Dave Dombrowski, while confirming that the team has made an offer to Damon, said that there is an end in sight to the Damon drama. He didn't explain what that means exactly, but I hope that end is a phone call to Boras this evening in which Dombrowski says "you have until noon tomorrow to either accept or reject the offer we have on the table. After that, we delete you from the speed dial."

[El Supremo]

1. His wife needs more money.

She's the one forcing him to ask for more not Borass.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Is that her? Looks to be super high maintenance. Wow!