Damn you A-Rod
Well no, I amnot going to get into the whole A-Rod thing, because truly it is silly. I mean he is clearly at fault, always, for everything. Wait until the Democrats get a hold of this, George W. Bush is not the cause for all the suffering in the world, it's A-Rod. Can you believe A-Rod is murdering all those people in Darfur, what an asshole. And this weekend after the season he flew across the globe to North Korea to help Kim Jong-Il test nuclear weapons, unbelievable.
Let's not forget what he did, or didn't do on the baseball field, not just all the marriages he has broken up. I mean in game 2 there he was on the mound at home with a 3-1 lead and his $19 million contract weighing his pockets down so much that he blew the lead. Oh no, wait that was Mike Mussina. What was he thinking in game 3 when Kenny Rogers was on the hill against his teammates they showed A-Rod in the dugout putting hexe's and psyche outs on those guys specifically so they would strike out. There he was at third base clearly plotting with Pudge Rodriguez not to tag him so that he would be called safe at third.
Heck we paid Randy Johnson a cool $16 million to barely give us 5 innings and Jaret Wright almost $8 million to pitch 2.2 innings, that is a sweet deal, for Wright. Of course not as sweet as the Carl Pavano deal who we have shoveled $16 million to pitch 17 total games, a cool Million a game, sweet, where do I sign up? Well back to guys who actually play. Did you know Jason Giambi gets $20 million this year, and he is so good Torre sat the damn guy with the season on the line against a right handed pitcher. Giambi murders right handed pitching, but A-Rod must have convinced Torre to bench him, that's the only explination.
Oh but the Great Derek Jeter had a wonderful series. Let's reverse roles for a second here, if A-Rod had the same series that Jeter just had what would the A-Rod hater say? O, well they still lost the series, so it doesn't matter what he did. What does the A-Rod hater say when Jeter has this kind of series? Fucking Jetaaaaa is unbelievable, he is the only guy out there playing hard. And we have that, it is called the 2004 ALCS where A-Rod had a solid series, nothing spectacular, but solid drove in 6 runs, hit 2 homers, scored 8 runs, slugged over .500, but the Yankees lost, so nobody seems to care. But if Jeter does it he is fighting and scarpping hard and trying to lead his team. Folks, it is what we call a double standard, plain and simple.
For and interesting take read this: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/061009&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos1
Let's not forget what he did, or didn't do on the baseball field, not just all the marriages he has broken up. I mean in game 2 there he was on the mound at home with a 3-1 lead and his $19 million contract weighing his pockets down so much that he blew the lead. Oh no, wait that was Mike Mussina. What was he thinking in game 3 when Kenny Rogers was on the hill against his teammates they showed A-Rod in the dugout putting hexe's and psyche outs on those guys specifically so they would strike out. There he was at third base clearly plotting with Pudge Rodriguez not to tag him so that he would be called safe at third.
Heck we paid Randy Johnson a cool $16 million to barely give us 5 innings and Jaret Wright almost $8 million to pitch 2.2 innings, that is a sweet deal, for Wright. Of course not as sweet as the Carl Pavano deal who we have shoveled $16 million to pitch 17 total games, a cool Million a game, sweet, where do I sign up? Well back to guys who actually play. Did you know Jason Giambi gets $20 million this year, and he is so good Torre sat the damn guy with the season on the line against a right handed pitcher. Giambi murders right handed pitching, but A-Rod must have convinced Torre to bench him, that's the only explination.
Oh but the Great Derek Jeter had a wonderful series. Let's reverse roles for a second here, if A-Rod had the same series that Jeter just had what would the A-Rod hater say? O, well they still lost the series, so it doesn't matter what he did. What does the A-Rod hater say when Jeter has this kind of series? Fucking Jetaaaaa is unbelievable, he is the only guy out there playing hard. And we have that, it is called the 2004 ALCS where A-Rod had a solid series, nothing spectacular, but solid drove in 6 runs, hit 2 homers, scored 8 runs, slugged over .500, but the Yankees lost, so nobody seems to care. But if Jeter does it he is fighting and scarpping hard and trying to lead his team. Folks, it is what we call a double standard, plain and simple.
For and interesting take read this: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/061009&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos1
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Welp, there's always $300 million!!!!
Nice to see the all knowing Slipper the Great went 0-4 in his playoff picks! Please, please, please pick the Cardinals!!!
It's getting really tiring be right all the tmie!!
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My point is Paul, where is that line? If you are the highest paid pitcher in the game, Mussina, you can have a 5.78 ERA over the same stretch of A-Rods failure? Where is his criticism, nope its A-Rods fault.
Giambi, Sheffield, Matsui, Johnson, Mussina, Wright, Vazquez, Pavano, Abreu, Rondell White, Wells a second time, Jose Contreras, Kevin Brown, Jon Leiber all of these guys were brought in at different times as the missing pieces, most of them failed, well actually all of them failed and they all received large sums of money. Where is the line between money and production which makes you an abject failure and moreover responsible for all of your teams failure?
Did A-Rod under perform this season and last season, certainly I have never said differently. But everyone else failed too, including Jeter. Listen nobody loves Jeter more than me, but if he were 1/50th as good as most Yankee fans believe he is he would have shown his true leadeship skills and pulled this team up, but he didn't, he deserves criticism too, I know it seems sacreligious, but its true.
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Danny,
My picks sucked, I love it. Peter Gammons went 1-3 so I dont feel so bad.
I wouldn't pick this current Cardinals team even if you were the Mets #1 starter, though you do have an arm like Elway.
By they way, when Kenny Rogers was with the Metropolitans didn't he walk in the pennant winning run on a 3-2 changeup? What a retard!!!
The entire Yankees team deserves fault for this collaspe against the worst team in the league.
Wait, what was that? Oh yeah, the Tigers were the best team in baseball for the majority of the year and slowed down at the end, you say? Wow, I didn't know that at all...
The whole A-Rod thing is ridiculous, but Jeter does deserve some blame. Not for his play, which was MVP quality all year, but for wearing the crown of captain and never addressing the whole A-Rod fiasco.
I can't find who wrote a column in the Daily News, but I was already thinking this before I read it - Jeter is the captain and he shouldn't have let this stupidity - the booing, the blame, the articles - go on in this locker room.
And anyone who doesn't think he couldn't have done anything to stop it is drunk. If Jeter had stood next to him and told reporters - "Look, this guy is an important part of OUR team. He's a Yankee now and we need to help him anyway possible" none of this shit would have happened.
He did the same thing with Giambi after the man ADMITTED TO TAKING STEROIDS and everyone except for Lupica doesn't mention that anymore to the point that SI actually used quotes from him like he was Paul O'Neil.
If the Post is right and Torre isn't going anywhere while they wait for Don Mattingly to be ready to take over, then Cashman's first goal is to move A-Rod for as much pitching as possible - like Zambrano and Wood or Prior for A-Rod and Melky (and I know that's not great for NY, but they're gonna get their asses held over the bar on this one).
If both Torre and ARod are back next year, the Yanks better get used to a lot of regular season wins and a lot of headlines about another playoff collaspe in October...
Sid Bream OUT
Martin, if the Yankees tried to move A-Rod they would clearly get raked over the coals, I agree with that and I bet so does Brian Cahsman which is why it wont happen.
That is also why I posted that article at the end of this blog where Jim Caple actually makes a ridiculously great argument for trading Jeter rather than A-Rod because coming off his lone MVP season and just before he hits his mid-30's you could get above average value for him. That is brilliant, maybe *slightly* unpopular, but brilliant nontheless. You could probably get Dontrelle Willis and Migual Cabrera and like he said, save up to $14 million over the next 4 years which could go toward some middle relief
First of all every guy the Yankees sign and bring in is to win a chmapionship their owner considers anything else a failure. So therefore my point is that everyone failed, not just one guy. Moose was brought in to be the man to lead the rotation back to championship glory, so was Randy Johnson he was brought in because of his championship experience. Giambi and Sheff were brought in as the missing piece to the puzzle.
In fact looking back through archives of when A-Rod was brought to the Yankees he never said anything about winning a championship, he said he wanted a chance to play for a winning team.
You continually point out that he is the highest paid player in the game, I understand that, but my qustion I keep asking you and you keep not having an answer is where is the line drawn; when you are the 5th highest paid player are you a failure if you don't bing your team a championship? Or is it the ninth highest paind player? Where is the line, show it to me is all I am asking.
Okay, so it is only the highest paid player in the game, I can except that. So then nobody else can ever be considered a failure by your definition, unless they are the highest paid player, thats fine.
As for saying he is different than Giambi and all the other guys is just another way of the A-Rod Hater (of which Josh drives the bus) can always win. The only reason Giambi sweats so much is because he is hoping nobody asks him for a pee test in the middle of the game, or the fact that he is fat and fat guys sweat all the time, it has nothing to do with wearing his emotion on his sleeve.
I would say Jeter has very similar expressions as A-Rod when he grounds out or makes an error but when he does it its called professionalism, when A-Rod does it he doesn't care. I dont see Jeter going into the dugout throwing things and carrying on like guys like Paul O'Neil did. Nope Jeter just goes about his business, much like A-Rod.
And lastly point to the Championship winning season when Mussina came through in big spots? Because A-Rod played his balls off against the Twins three years ago and actually had a solid series against the Red Sox during the great collapse, and in 2000 when with the Mariners he had a good post season batting over .330 and driving in 7 runs. So he has played well in the playoffs in non-championship years just like Mussina.
It's tragic that Arod killed Corey Lidle.....
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