I know, I know, this isn't a Boston Red Sox blog.  And trust me, I'm no AL East fan, let alone a Red Sox fan.  But the Matsuzaka signing was important to me, and for one reason and one reason only: Scott Boras got served.

Boras is the number 1 reason to not like free agency.  Any shot your team might have to land a big player on the market because he might be sentimental about the area, might want to be close to his family, etc., goes right out the window when he makes Boras his agent.  Same goes for top draft picks.  When Scott Boras is on the case, all he cares about is money, and lots of it.  Boras spent the last month talking endlessly about how Matsuzaka should be given Roy Oswalt money, how Matsuzaka is one of the top 3 pitchers in baseball, how Matsuzaka is going to create a perpetual motion machine and provide energy for the entire western hemisphere.  Well, the Red Sox never blinked.  They gave Matsuzaka exactly what they thought he deserved: 6 years, $52 million.  Now that he's lost a little face, I hope other teams will treat Boras this way when he makes outrageous contract demands.

And while this may not affect A's fans directly (although it may a little, since he's Zito's agent), I really just wanted to say this:

Eat it, Boras.  Eat it raw.