Zito to Take Guitar, Cadre of Celebrity Girlfriends to Barry Bonds’ Divided Locker Room
Uncategorized December 28th. 2006, 6:19pm
That plaintive wail you just heard out of Flushing, New York is because the last remaining coveted free agent, Barry Zito, spurned the Mets – and the Yankees, apparently – to sign with the San Francisco Giants for the absurdly insane figure of $126 million over seven years. (To the mathematically-challenged: It’s about $18 million per year.)
Most interesting angle to us – ESPN’s Peter Gammons is getting credit for breaking this story, something we predicted over a week ago after Sports Illustrated was gift-wrapped the Matsuzaka-contract scoop.
Let it be known that uber-agent Scott Boras knows how to parcel out his scoops. Matsuzaka to SI, Zito to ESPN. Keep everyone happy.
Mets fans? This one hurts. Especially with Pedro on the shelf till June or July. Their top two starters now become senior citizens Tom Glavine and Orlando Hernandez. Wonder how many ‘analysts’ will take the Florida Marlins to win the NL East?
Zito Signs with Giants (MLB.com)
Zito gets 7-years, $126 million from Giants (ESPN.com)
[Update: So maybe Boras didn't hand this one to the dean of baseball writing after all. Two emails from readers say otherwise. One says that although the .com is crediting ESPN with the scoop, 'Cold Pizza was giving credit to T.R. Sullivan for breaking the story.' Writes another: '... even Chris Russell for TSN Radio was clowning ESPN for taking credit when they (ESPN) failed to break the story first.']
5 Responses to “Zito to Take Guitar, Cadre of Celebrity Girlfriends to Barry Bonds’ Divided Locker Room”
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December 28th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Let’s string peter gammons up and make him beg for his life. Maybe what the anyersum didn’t do we could. Chris Russell could take the credit, alhough you guys love credit to so maybe it can be 50/50.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Wow. Someone didn’t take their crazy pills today.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I did, but I guess the truth hurts. What happened to my comment on Steve Young. You are becoming f-espn, because when I called you out on trying to make up a story, you don’t post my comment.
December 28th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
geeze, you guys love pulling this “espn poops on journalists” crap with scoops. I know that its important for journalists to get credit, but with a story like this who can accurately tell who has the scoop per se? is it a matter who gets it out on paper (or the web) first or who has it the most correct? what if two people publish it at the same time? perhaps espn thought gammons got to it first, then found out differently, so one outlet (like the web) credits him while a quicker outlet (like tv) changes that credit and gives it to somebody else?
Furthermore, why do you care when its so subjective? its not like this would have been a great secret had nobody ’scooped it.’ As soon as the papers were signed I’m sure there were plenty of leaks.. Let this whole scoop crap die man, its not worth it. I know you guys love to pile it on ESPN (and yeah, some things need to be changed there but what news org. is perfect? they’re still the best overall at what they do which is bring sports to the people) but you need to take your shots a little more carefully or all your criticisms will become a cacophony of noise.
December 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Sparky - One of the problems is that we get tons of spam. And more comments than we wish end up going that route. Sorry if your comments are not getting posted in a timely manner, but we’re doing our best. We also do not post a lot of the racial garbage that comes through, so perhaps one of those were yours.
And yeah, we’d definitely love to know what we’re ‘making up.’
It’s much easier to email gripes to thebiglead@hotmail.com. We get all those.