Ah Yankees fans. I hate to say I told you so – ah what the heck – I TOLD YOU SO!
Man are you going to miss AROD when he’s gone. I do think that I speak for the majority of sports fans when I say that it looks good on you. Oh you did have your chances to welcome him into the Yankee brotherhood, knowing that an secure, wanted, and loved AROD would hang Playstation numbers on the rest of Baseball, but you were determined to heave tremendous amounts of unrealistic pressure upon him, holding him responsible for every Yankee setback, and booing him lustily at every conceivable opportunity.
You felt that Rodriguez’ average of 39 home runs and 119 RBI’s per season over his 1st 3 years in Gotham, and one MVP were simply not enough to meet your ridiculous astronomical expectations. No one is denying that Rodriguez’ post season numbers are mediocre but did any other Yankee tear the cover off the ball during those play off collapses? Yet the blame all somehow fell squarely on arguably, the best player of this generation. By the way, did it ever occur to the Yankee brain trust over the past 3 years to, somewhere along the way acquire a pitcher or two to compliment their always menacing batting line up? Did they really think that the answer to their ever mounting pitching woes, lay in the arms of Esteban Loaiza, Jaret Wright, OR Cory Lidle? (god rest his soul). Yet somehow it was all on AROD.
So isn’t it a fantastic morsel of irony that this season, where it looks like Rodriguez will finally earn his Yankees’ stripes, will be his last season in pinstripes. Sure through his torrid stretch in April, you fans have had the audacity to cheer him and demand curtain calls celebrating his heroics, when for the majority of the past 3 seasons you have berated him at every turn. A lesser man would have refused to acknowledge these gestures and dismissed them you as bandwagon jumpers, but in a true show of class, AROD has absorbed and reciprocated these tributes.
Some times, however, things can’t be taken back and fences cannot be mended. So AROD will undoubtedly opt out of his current contract, leaving behind all of the abuse, and move on, seeking not a financial windfall, but an emotional windfall, a place where he can be content and unconditionally appreciated. Meanwhile, the Yankees will be left with their current pitching concerns but will also have to deal with finding a way to fill a 50 home run, 130 RBI hole in their line up. Then Rodriguez would really be to blame for the demise of the Yankees – Rodriguez’ departure that is.
Gotta go, ‘Riptide’ is on.
Man are you going to miss AROD when he’s gone. I do think that I speak for the majority of sports fans when I say that it looks good on you. Oh you did have your chances to welcome him into the Yankee brotherhood, knowing that an secure, wanted, and loved AROD would hang Playstation numbers on the rest of Baseball, but you were determined to heave tremendous amounts of unrealistic pressure upon him, holding him responsible for every Yankee setback, and booing him lustily at every conceivable opportunity.
You felt that Rodriguez’ average of 39 home runs and 119 RBI’s per season over his 1st 3 years in Gotham, and one MVP were simply not enough to meet your ridiculous astronomical expectations. No one is denying that Rodriguez’ post season numbers are mediocre but did any other Yankee tear the cover off the ball during those play off collapses? Yet the blame all somehow fell squarely on arguably, the best player of this generation. By the way, did it ever occur to the Yankee brain trust over the past 3 years to, somewhere along the way acquire a pitcher or two to compliment their always menacing batting line up? Did they really think that the answer to their ever mounting pitching woes, lay in the arms of Esteban Loaiza, Jaret Wright, OR Cory Lidle? (god rest his soul). Yet somehow it was all on AROD.
So isn’t it a fantastic morsel of irony that this season, where it looks like Rodriguez will finally earn his Yankees’ stripes, will be his last season in pinstripes. Sure through his torrid stretch in April, you fans have had the audacity to cheer him and demand curtain calls celebrating his heroics, when for the majority of the past 3 seasons you have berated him at every turn. A lesser man would have refused to acknowledge these gestures and dismissed them you as bandwagon jumpers, but in a true show of class, AROD has absorbed and reciprocated these tributes.
Some times, however, things can’t be taken back and fences cannot be mended. So AROD will undoubtedly opt out of his current contract, leaving behind all of the abuse, and move on, seeking not a financial windfall, but an emotional windfall, a place where he can be content and unconditionally appreciated. Meanwhile, the Yankees will be left with their current pitching concerns but will also have to deal with finding a way to fill a 50 home run, 130 RBI hole in their line up. Then Rodriguez would really be to blame for the demise of the Yankees – Rodriguez’ departure that is.
Gotta go, ‘Riptide’ is on.
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