How Long Will Boras' Evil Reign Supreme?

In the midst of negotiations Kenny Rogers fired the most evil agent in the business; Scott Boras. Little was said by either about Boras' departure, and his losing a high profile free agent pitcher.

Maybe, just maybe Rogers freed himself and has helped start a trend against greedy agents.

This may have all been fueled when Boras opted out of the last three seasons with the Yankees for Alex Rodriguez possibly costing A-Rod face in the baseball world, not to mention the almighty dollar.

After a week or two of waiting for offers and seeing weighing his options, Rodriguez, without Boras, swallowed his pride and contacted the Yankees brass himself.

Rodriguez managed to negotiate most of his new contract set for 10 years and 275 million dollars with revenue sharing if and when Rodriguez breaks the homerun record which would raise A-Rod's salary to over 300 million dollars. Boras is set to lose the deal but was the main reason that negotiatos were so bumpy between the two parties.

While 275 million is nothing to sneeze at, the Yanks were probably going to, as negotiations would have progressed, could have dwarfed even a near 300 million dollar contract that A-Rod is just about ready to sign.

Boras in the mean time, helped ruin A-Rod's image with the Yankee fans, with MLB and Bud Selig as Boras "accidentaly" leaked the information that A-Rod was opting out of his contract with the Yankees in the middle of game 4 of the World Series.

Boras' act made Rodriguez look like a greedy puppet who did whatever Boras said to do and at the same time made it seem like A-Rod wants to be known as bigger than the World Series itself. Maybe A-Rod does want to go down in history with that in fans minds - as bigger than the game, but not in a negative way that can haunt him throughout the rest of his career.

For being such a savy business man, Boras has had some of the biggest clients in recent baseball history, however, players just may be fed up with him running their lives.

He took a big hit with A-Rod as he became A-Rod's "advisor," and now has been let go by possibly the biggest free agent pitcher on the market. And why? Because he tried to get greedy and get more money elsewhere while his clients wanted to stay put - A-Rod in New York and Rogers in Detroit.

Now, maybe other players will take the lead that A-Rod and Rogers started and not let their agents manage them.

Does this mean the end of the Scott Boras era? Doubtful. Does this mean that he loses some his current clients, possibly future clients, and maybe has less control over his clients? Hopefully that will be an effect.

Many players however will surely be too blown away by the possibility of getting the extra couple million dollars, as if it really matters to them, that Boras and his puppetry over his clients, no matter how many there are, will unfortunatley reign for decades still to come.

Hopefully at the very least, A-Rod and Rogers did something that has a possibility to just begin a decline in Boras' control and power over baseball, the teams, and his clients that either are or can potentially be invovled with him.