Monday, October 29, 2007
I Feel Used
First...Congrats to the Red Sox. I thought they were finished 3-1 in Cleveland, but they showed great resilience. In a true year of parity in Major League Baseball, they once again rose victorious and made this another tough winter for this Yankees fan...
But the other major story at the end of the World Series was A-Rod. In a twist of bitter irony--since A-Rod's failures to get the Yankees to that point has now allowed the Red Sox to get two World Series championships--Alex Rodriguez, the chicken that he is, decided to announce through superagent Scott Boras last night that he was opting out of his contract with the Yankees.
Excuse me for one second while I begin to empathize with Freshman girls...I feel used and the Yankees organization and the rest of Yankees fans should also.
But the other major story at the end of the World Series was A-Rod. In a twist of bitter irony--since A-Rod's failures to get the Yankees to that point has now allowed the Red Sox to get two World Series championships--Alex Rodriguez, the chicken that he is, decided to announce through superagent Scott Boras last night that he was opting out of his contract with the Yankees.
Excuse me for one second while I begin to empathize with Freshman girls...I feel used and the Yankees organization and the rest of Yankees fans should also.
I feel especially used. For some reason I would always find a way to cheer for A-Rod. Maybe it was my naivety, but I truly felt that he wanted to be here and a little encouragement might help. I cheered for him through his attack of Varitek and his squabbles with Trot Nixon. I tried to make believe that his struggles in real clutch situations didn't actually occur or could be explained somehow. When others booed or refused to cheer, I was up, on my feet, applauding as loudly as I could. I defended him after plays like the one on the right and his "hah" play in Toronto earlier in the year. 
I even tried to come up with reasons for his purple lips.
No more.
I listened to him say all the right things about how he now felt at home in New York and comfortable and wanted to stay...and all that crap.
And then he left.
So this is why I empathize with the Freshman girls because like many of them after a Friday night out drinking, I am left wondering what I was thinking trusting this guy. Why I felt like he would be different than he was before. Why I didn't think he wouldn't leave at the first offer he had and for the opportunity to play the field. Why I was bewildered he would have not returned any phone calls left for him (read here for more on that) and broke up with me via a text message from his viceroy (and read here for more on that). And why, as other Yankee fans have pointed out, he took our most painful moment of the year and made sure to really stick a dagger in our hearts with the timing of his announcement.
Screw him. Hank Steinbrenner is right to say that if he doesn't want us, then we don't want him--remember. A-Rod, it's a privilege to wear the Pinstripes. He is a traitor, a man who has an insatiable appetite for money, a man who will go into the Hall Of Fame without a team. I hope that Canseco's book comes out and there's a picture of him sticking a steroids needle in A-Rod's butt. I hope the Yankees, like the Mariners and the Rangers before, do better once A-Rod is gone. I hope that his passing of the home run record gets as much love from America as Bonds has received--for as much as Bonds sucks, he never left San Francisco for more money.
But in the end, I hope he never wins a championship, thinks back on his time with us, and regrets his decision for a long time to come.
I even tried to come up with reasons for his purple lips.
No more.
I listened to him say all the right things about how he now felt at home in New York and comfortable and wanted to stay...and all that crap.
And then he left.
So this is why I empathize with the Freshman girls because like many of them after a Friday night out drinking, I am left wondering what I was thinking trusting this guy. Why I felt like he would be different than he was before. Why I didn't think he wouldn't leave at the first offer he had and for the opportunity to play the field. Why I was bewildered he would have not returned any phone calls left for him (read here for more on that) and broke up with me via a text message from his viceroy (and read here for more on that). And why, as other Yankee fans have pointed out, he took our most painful moment of the year and made sure to really stick a dagger in our hearts with the timing of his announcement.
Screw him. Hank Steinbrenner is right to say that if he doesn't want us, then we don't want him--remember. A-Rod, it's a privilege to wear the Pinstripes. He is a traitor, a man who has an insatiable appetite for money, a man who will go into the Hall Of Fame without a team. I hope that Canseco's book comes out and there's a picture of him sticking a steroids needle in A-Rod's butt. I hope the Yankees, like the Mariners and the Rangers before, do better once A-Rod is gone. I hope that his passing of the home run record gets as much love from America as Bonds has received--for as much as Bonds sucks, he never left San Francisco for more money.
But in the end, I hope he never wins a championship, thinks back on his time with us, and regrets his decision for a long time to come.
6 Comments:
Alex Rodriguez is a class-less individual. There is a time and a place for the type of announcement he made last night. That place is in front of the NY media at a press conference AFTER the World Series. Alex Rodriguez just lost a price-driver in the Boston Red Sox with his classless act. Perhaps the Sox would have been involved in the A-Rod talks previously, but not anymore (especially after he walked away from a rumored 5 year -$150 million extension).
And now I am left to chant:
"RE-SIGN LOWELL, RE-SIGN LOWELL"
as the 10,000+ Red Sox fans did at Coors Field last night.
Ravi,
I think he lost his biggest price driver when he told the Yankees F*** You. This man obviously has a buyer lined up (like JD Drew did before opting out last year) and is about to sign a huge deal with someone else out there. He is certainly a class-less act, though, and if the Red Sox don't resign Lowell--who seems to be quite the opposite--for the rest of his baseball life, they would be quite foolish. I don't think a 3 year, $36 million contract is out of the question for Lowell at this point...
Ahhh..let's now add this...from Peter Abraham's blog at the Journal News:
"Robbie Cano did a radio show today. He found out that A-Rod opted out from one of this friends. Alex didn’t even call a teammate he claimed to care so much about. Class guy."
http://yankees.lohudblogs.com/
He is a sackless weasel. The comforting thing is that no matter where he goes, championships will be found elsewhere. He's such a clubhouse cancer, head case and generally disgusting, phony individual that no team will be able to survive his presence. Good riddance.
Okay so A-Rod shouldn't have announced his intentions to test the free agent market during the World Series..I don't think Red Sox care too much though, they got their World Series victory. Then again, New England fans complain about everything so they probably will be upset.
The real issue here though is whether or not A-Rod is somehow disloyal for not giving the Yankees a chance to exclusively talk to him about an extension before he decided to test the free agent market. I don't think it's disloyal for A-Rod to do what he did. He would be stupid not to test the market, he's going to receive the largest contract ever, perhaps. He is testing the free agent market, and like every other team, the Yankees can bid on him if they want to.
Maybe if the Yankees fans weren't so critical of A-Rod throughout his career with the Yankees things wouldn't have ended the way they did and Alex would have felt loyal to the Yanks.
More importantly, Yankees personnel treated him poorly during his tenure with the Yankees. For example, Joe Torre had him bat 8th in the final game vs. Detroit in 2006, really just to embarrass A-Rod. Further, Derek Jeter, aka a real Yankee, rarely came forward to the media to defend A-Rod.
Perhaps if Derek Jeter had embraced A-Rod none of this would have ever happened.
By the way, why is there no Jeter bashing after he .176 with no extra base hits this postseason?
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