This is a couple of days old, but I’ve been busy watching the World Baseball Classic. Ian O’Connor, the honor today is yours. The Yankees have no interest in devaluing an asset like Rodriguez, not when they have nine years to go on a contract worth more than $300 million. So they’re not about to …
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Today we feature Mike Vacarro of the New York Post, from his article “Alex Not in Same Class As Captain America”. This bit caused my eyes to start bleeding: The trendy thing to do among skeptics, cynics and statistical analysts is to diminish who Derek Jeter is, what Jeter is, what he brings to the …
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I’ve slacked off on this but today I absolutely cannot ignore this: Minutes before the Dominican Republic team was about to take the field for practice, A-Rod’s former wife, Cynthia, pulled up in a gray Mercedes SUV with their two daughters and a female friend of Cynthia’s. When Rodriguez emerged from the clubhouse alone, in …
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This quote from Mike Lupica is everything wrong with how people view sports: A-Rod hasn’t left his career in bars or strip clubs. He hasn’t thrown his career away over a drug like cocaine the way Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry did, helping ruin any chance the Mets of the 1980s had to be some …
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This is a little late but Wallace Matthews is kind of dumb. This all could have been avoided if the Yankees had listened to Cashman, who knew that despite Rodriguez’s 54 homers and 156 RBIs in 2007, the Yankees would be better off letting him walk. Like every other team that has employed A-Rod, the …
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Jon Heyman is no longer an actual part of the NY Sports Media, but he may as well be since he’s absolutely as terrible as all of them. It’s lovely that many Yankees showed up at his press conference to support Rodriguez, but frankly, many of them looked bored. Either bored or exasperated. There were …
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Brought to you today by Joel Sherman, noted idiot. There is some hope in the Yankee family that a chastened Rodriguez will do better at taming his humongous ego and insecurities. Perhaps he could then fit more seamlessly into the Yankee culture. I have decided the only thing worse than TRUE YANKEE is YANKEE CULTURE …
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The first entry in this exciting feature comes from George King III, writer for the esteemed NY Post. It wasn’t as bad as R. Budd Dwyer’s last press conference 22 years ago, when the Pennsylvania treasurer shot himself to death on national television. But yesterday’s performance by Alex Rodriguez was full of holes. Hmm yes, …
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