Or as the Bizarro Jo-El once said…“Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Home Runs am bad!”
That $30 million seduction looked bad then — to blend immortality with a payday — and worse now for two reasons: 1) The Yankees are trying to get under the $189 million luxury-tax threshold beginning in 2014 to gain the financial benefits that are part of the new collective bargaining agreement. Those $6 million bonuses, if triggered, would count toward the payroll in the season they are earned. 2) The 2009 revelation that Rodriguez used steroids at least during his Ranger years devalued A-Rod, the TV Show, for the Yankees/YES while assuring Rodriguez that the accomplishment is as regretted as celebrated.
You got a preview of, at the least, how little joy and fanfare there will be should Rodriguez keep climbing on the homer list by the minimalist reaction yesterday. It was not long ago that becoming the fifth-leading homer hitter ever would have unleashed a standing ovation, wall-to-wall coverage and the further elevating of a reputation. Instead, when A-Rod took Ervin Santana deep to open the third inning, there was, well, not much.
The home crowd mainly was just pleased Joe Girardi’s strategy, to flip-flop Rodriguez to third and Robinson Cano to cleanup for the foreseeable future, had an instant payoff in stirring the slumping Rodriguez. There was no confetti. No sustained applause. No waiting call of congratulations from Griffey.
...So the Yankees need that good health, need a guy they are paying so much to keep clearing fences. But even with that success there would be bad with the good. For team. For player. Such is life with the Yankees’ version of Alex Rodriguez.
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Posted: April 14, 2012 at 08:03 AM |
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1. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: April 14, 2012 at 09:07 AM (#4106486)So much ado about nuttin'.
If his decline continues, the Yanks are truly screwed. They have to keep him or risk paying $30 mil for him to get the milestones for some other club. As the Kaiser said of his Austrian allies late in the war, "We are shackled to a corpse."
I think the reaction to tying or passing Mays will be a bigger deal. Willie's been out of the game longer and is thus more of an icon, and is still beloved in New York for his years with the Giants (and, to a lesser extent, the Mets).
Oh, well, a Yankee fan can dream, can't he.....
"Mays... beloved in New York for his years with the Giants (and, to a lesser extent, the Mets)."
"lesser" seems like such a feeble word here
Whatever will the Yankees do?
Is there any real reason to believe the Yankees will be noncompetitive in 2016? Or that A-Rod will end up so bad in 2016, but somehow good (and healthy) enough to have hit more than 110 home runs in the four years previous? That's just silliness.
That's funny, because when I made that comment I was thinking of Cory Booker's heroism, but I had no idea of the name of Booker's security guard. I guess that the wrist slap that "the other A-Rod" gave Booker wasn't enough to deter him from going into the building.
Yes, this may change in the next few years.....
truly screwedgoing to have to spend more money, gosh dash it all.I'm not crying. Just a dust speck in my eye.
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