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The seeds have been planted and it is clear that if Alex Rodriguez leaves after this season it is because the fans in New York didn’t like him enough. Yesterday, he appeared on Mike and the Mad Dog and told them:
"Either New York is going to kick me out of New York this year, say 'I've had enough of this guy, get him the hell out of here,' and we have an option. Or New York is going to say, 'Hey, we won a world championship, you had a big year, you were a part of it and we want you back.'"$252-million and all the talent in the world cannot overcome massive insecurities and that is the conundrum of Alex Rodriguez. When he was with Seattle he couldn’t stand the fact that Derek Jeter was considered his equal because his teams had won so he trashed him in Esquire.
Now, it’s our fault if he leaves and the part that has to burn up A-Rod inside is how many fans would be willing to pack his bags for him. New York has embraced a myriad of athletes through the years. From Messier’s leadership to Sprewell’s determination to O’Neil’s toughness the only common denominator was victories. Perhaps Alex is most like Phil Simms who was nearly booed out of Giants Stadium his first few years in town.
But, Simms didn’t complain, he didn’t talk about it; he just worked harder. And, when he won Super Bowl XXI he was a hero. Alex could learn a lesson from that, but he is too busy obsessing about his image and planning his next step.
Photo of Alex Rodriguez by AP/Mike Carlson
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the media in this town is clueless. leave the guy alone. he is being honest. he applauded the fans quite a few times in that interview. yankee fans have been terrible to this guy.
Exactly, I blame the media. They beat the story to a pulp to sell papers, or, as in this case, get page hits and blog comments. It creates a vicious cycle. I'm frankly quite bored of it.
Sheesh. Feed the fire, Gothamist. You're as bad as the journalists who report this crap. This is not news, and you are not offering a different take. Only reporting what every other media outlet in NY is reporting... Did you listen to the interview? Or just copy and paste from the Post?
That's cool - he'll make a hell of a 2B @ Shea.
Nice, EJC. Call me when David Wright hits his 800th home run. Or maybe his first in the playoffs. Rodriguez isn't the only third baseman in this town who didn't show up once the calendar flipped to October.
O’Neil’s toughness
O'Neil was a whining little bitch who just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Everytime a call went against him, he grimaced and you think that's tough????
Sprewell’s determination
He was determined to kill his coach alright!
compare arod to the rocket. plenty of talent in both, but what people want to see is the determination. arod is a prima donna. it takes a hell of a lot of time and energy to do all the complaining he does. always with the excuses. even a diva like manny ramirez comes through in the big games.
i mean he went out of his way to comment on the gothamist (see #2-4). shouldn't he be taking some bp? it's new york. the media will eat you alive. it ate up randy candy-ass johnson and plenty more like him. the whining just has a bigger spotlight here and nobody wants to hear it when you have the biggest contract in baseball.
Worse case scenario, ARod is everything they say he is. In New York, of all places, they don't how to handle an oversensitive, neurotic, artsy-fartsy temperment? If they couldn't, half the theaters in town would close down. Who's the whiny bitch, here, really?
Francesa and Russo are on the air right now saying that all the writers in NYC this morning got it dead wrong, and that there's a brewing backlash that's actually seeing more people root for Rodriguez.
IMHO, they're dead right. Alex's name sells papers, so be it. But they're f***ed on this one.
I'm rooting for the guy.
Sprewell’s determination to O’Neil’s toughness the only common denominator was victories
Are you serious? Are you really comparing an average player who was a famous scumbag and malcontent to possibly the greatest position player in our generation? As for O'Neill, people say that no one would know who Derek Jeter was if he didn't play in New York. NO ONE wouls know who O'Neill was if he stayed on the Reds. And O'Neill's another guy whose batting average suddenly skyrocketed from the mid-.200s to the low-to-mid-.300s in the early 90s. Let's not forget that.
I pray A-Rod goes to the National League next year and drives a stake into the Yankees in the World Series. They would deserve it.
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No, I am not comparing A-Rod to either of them, I used them as examples because they were hugely popular in New York. A-Rod isn't and the media seems to be taking the hit for that today, but I think he would do a lot better if he just shut up and played like Phil Simms did. He doesn't help himself when he opens his mouth, media bias or not.
Stop crying like a little girl ! See this is why nobody likes you on the team ! Always crying !!! Grow-up and be a man !
Is it too much to ask that in exchange for a quarter of a BILLION dollars, you just shut up and play the game?
In what bizarro world are we living that grown men not only get paid unbelievably disgusting amounts of money so out of whack with what others make, but that to earn that disgusting amount of money, you "have" to play a childhood game?
I love sports, but the economy and the attitudes are so far outside reality that they taint my enjoyment.