Dear Yankees,
After viewing A-Rod’s latest performance, I can only conclude that you are paying him $60,000 a game to strike out and ogle women. I consider myself to be highly skilled at both of these tasks, possibly more skilled than A-Rod himself, and willing to work for a tiny fraction of his price. If you are ever interested in a third baseman willing to do the same job for less money and even fewer drugs, give me a call.
Reported.
Why?
Perhaps for transfer to The Game Room.
You stupid, stupid fucking imbeciles:
Not only did you pay more than the going rate for a ballplayer in his prime, but you got greedy when it seemed you might be able wriggle out of it and you actually raised his obscene salary–you had already gotten some of the beneift of his prime years for the inflated price you paid but then you had to go and sign him to a newer contract for even more money to cover him for his declining years. And when those declining years arrived–hold on! Alex Rodriguez is going to get OLD? Say it isn’t so!–you found yourself stuck with this overgrown pustule with a FREAKIN’ NO-TRADE CLAUSE in his contract. IOW, if you want to get rid of him without simply paying a hundred cents on the dollar to leave (by releasing him) you’re going to have to pay him extra to accept a trade. You were dumb, stupid, ignorant, foolish, short-sighted, easily gulled, moronic jackasses to sign him in the first place, and you are continuing to be so today.
Also, the ogling women thing.
I think the ogling qualifies as freelance work.
He’s overpaid and not healthy now, and I’m hoping he will be somewhat better next year after getting some time to recover. In the latter part of this season and into the playoffs he’s been generally awful. And he gave them great seasons in '08 and '09 (when they won the Series).
Dear Yankees,
HA HA HA!
I liked #5 (even tho in the Politics threads I count prr as an ally-but as a Sox fan, not here :D).
As bad as A-Rod was in the postseason I don’t understand why he was singled out for extended benching on a team where basically everyone was as bad or worse.
That what you get for playing with a DH. AL the Abomination League.
As someone who hates the Yankees, I must say I’m really enjoying this thread.
Amazing coincidence how that happened simultaneously with facing Detroit pitching, isn’t it? 
Because he has 5 years remaining on the worst contract in MLB history.
I’m still unclear why the Steinbrenners didn’t let him walk when they could. A-Rod must’ve had compromising pictures.
Which makes it more puzzling, not less. Unless there’s somebody who wants him, he is your problem for the next five years. Benching him, further undermining his confidence and relationship with the manager, making him look even more pathetic and neutered to an already hostile fan base… these are things you do to a player who is headed out of town, where you just need to get through a few more days and then he becomes someone else’s problem.
I feel like there’s just more to it than this. They can’t possibly have believed they were substantially improving their chances of winning games with him out of the lineup.
By the way, I’ll bet a shiny nickel that A-Rod is back and hitting 30+ home runs last year. Five years left on a huge contract? Humiliated by his employer? Somewhere out there, there’s a steroid supplier who just put a down payment on a new Porsche.
It didn’t. He didn’t hit against Baltimore either, and neither did most of the rest of the team.
Yeah, this makes no sense at all. Who cares about his confidence? If he wants to be in the lineup, he needs to hit. If not, nobody cares how he feels.
Exactly right. I’ve never liked A Rod, but the fact is, NOBODY on the Yankees was hitting over the past few weeks.
And all the talk (I’m pretty sure talk is ALL it is) about the Yankees trading A Rod is absolutely ridiculous.Yes, it’s a terrible contract right now, and even if Alex plays at a fairly high level, he won’t be worth nearly the money he gets.
But the fact remains, he’s a solid, productive player (if no longer a great one), and NOBODY is going to take him off the Yankees’ hands unless the Yanks pay most of his salary. Why on Earth would the Yanks pay $90 million so that Alex could play for someone else?
A Rod was lousy in the post season, but he is FAR from the Yankees’ biggest problem. They should keep him as long as he’s a better than average player, and get as much use out of him as they can.
Actually, it IS coincidental. A Rod was just as feeble against the Orioles, as were MOST of the Yankees.
Verlander IS a great pitcher, but far lesser pitchers were mowing down the Yanks just as easily.
And on top of that they’d be dealing him at his lowest possible value.
Facing Justin Verlander could put God into a slump.
Watching him I do not understand how he ever loses, unless it’s a 1-0 loss.
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Because he has 5 years remaining on the worst contract in MLB history.
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So what? Contracts are not Joe Girardi’s problem. It doesn’t matter whether A-Rod makes more than Robinson Cano; once in uniform and on the field they’re all Yankees times 1.
A-Rod was 3-for-25 in the playoffs, which is terrible, but not exactly unusual; a lot of guys will put up strikingly bad numbers in a week’s worth of games. And here’s the rest of the big sluggers:
Teixiera: 9 for 32, 1 double
Cano: 3 for 40 (!!!)
Granderson: 3 for 30
Chavez, A-Rod’s Replacement: 0 for 16
Swisher: 5 for 30
Suzuki was a tolerable 11 for 40, and of course Raul Ibanez had a great postseason, but seriously, why do you target A-Rod in this suckhole of crap hitting, especially when his replacement went 0-for-16? I didn’t hear anything said about Swisher, ether, who with his performance is beginning to cement a place in baseball history as one of the worst playoff hitters who ever lived; he’s now a career 26-for-154.