I was in my hotel room the other night, watching ESPN, when I saw something as rare as an alcohol free weekend at the John Daly house ? Nomar Garciappara doing an interview. There he was ? sitting at a table, outside in the warm sun, reporters and cameras all around him, talking openly and freely.
It was unbelievable. Nomar hates the media. And I am sure he still does, but because the Red Sox treated him like a pi on Cinco de Maya during the off season, he needed to let the world, and more importantly Red Sox fans, know he is upset. The Red Sox management team played a risky game and lost by very publicly trying to get Alex Rodriquez and ship Nomar out of town and he didn?t appreciate it.
Hey, personally I get upset when I am not invited to lunch so I know where he is coming from. Imagine if you worked for a large company, for this example let?s say Microsoft. You start right out of college. You get underpaid and watch your friends, all who do the same thing as you, get paid much higher salaries from IBM, EDS, and Apple. During the first 8 or 9 years you are with Microsoft, you are their BEST employee. You are in fact one of the best workers in the industry. You win awards and everything. Then one day you are on vacation and read in the paper that Microsoft is trying to sell you to some start-up software company in the Midwest to make room for a star employee, who is grossly over paid, from IBM. Microsoft talks about you as being inflexible in dealing with your salary, and in fact offers you LESS than what they offered you a few months earlier to stay with them. And then, after the star employee from IBM decides to stay with IBM, Microsoft realizes with a deer-in-the-headlight look that they might have been a little insensitive.
Would you like it? Me either. And Nomar didn?t like it. So he finally said something of substance to the press and it was ?The Red Sox didn?t treat me well, and Nomar ain?t happy?. Can?t wait to see how this one plays out
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