Jayson Stark’s hypothetical outrage

Reader Jason D. has a request: Please write about how damn stupid Stark's ESPN.com piece on draft bonuses is. I'm bored at work. Gladly! Stark's piece is about Stephen Strasburg and draft bonuses. Take it away Jayson: Fifty million bucks. Roll that around your tongue. Fifty million bucks. That's not this week's Powerball jackpot. That's the unofficial, early-line, insane price tag Scott Boras has theoretically slapped on the forehead of the surefire No. 1 pick in next week's baseball draft, Stephen Strasburg. Fifty million bucks. What a farce. What kills me about this article are not the prescriptions it offers -- trading draft pics, hard bonus caps, etc. are all worth discussing -- it's that it launches into all of this based on a demand made by an agent that everyone already understands to have a somewhat delusional view of the world. I would not at all be surprised to see Scott Boras demand that his next client be given access to "thr...