# Highest paid player in baseball CHEATS. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210 "2004-10-20T13:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/81 "2004-10-20T22:57:07Z")
“Some of my best friends are Yankee fans?” Nice one, **skutir.** ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/82 "2004-10-21T00:54:21Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > ARod had to slow down because the first baseman was on the basepath, without the ball. What if, and I was hoping he would, ARod would have run into the first baseman, and they both stumble, then the pitcher tags ARod out. That would be obstruction, and ARod would be awarded first, jeter to second, right. It’s a bullshit scenario and completely out of bounds of reality. The tag happened before A-Rod approached within 5 feet of Mientkdaflkjvalkjdisc. He didn’t have to slow down for shit. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/83 "2004-10-21T04:38:43Z")
Oh, and a final word to Yankee fans: Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/84 "2004-10-21T08:44:30Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > “Some of my best friends are Yankee fans?” Yeah, but would you want one dating your sister? “[A-Rod’s]a phenomenal baseball talent. He’s adapted beautifully to the position and he has magnificent range.” And he gets to have an early start on practicing for next year, too! Is there nothing this man can’t do? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/85 "2004-10-21T13:55:40Z")
“That was freakin’ junior high baseball at its best,” Schilling said of A-Rod’s eighth-inning knockout of Bronson Arroyo’s glove Tuesday night. “Let me ask you something: Does Jeter do that?..You know for a fact he doesn’t because Derek Jeter is a class act and a professional, that’s why.” 😃 Moderator can close this pit if they want. There’s really nothing else to add. Oh wait, there is. . . WHO’S YOUR DADDY? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/86 "2004-10-21T14:06:46Z")
> [@skutir](#): > > Well, I’m sorry I hurt your feelings. My hatred is general, not specific. I hate the motherfucking Yankees and their goddam fans, but that doesn’t mean I hate YOU. heck, I have friends who like the Yankees and they know I don’t mean I hate THEM when I rant about the goddamned Yankees and their motherfucking fans. > > If you’ve been a fan for so long you should be used to it, since the Yankees are a love-em-or-hate-em team. I am used to it. I was just pointing out how you said that we Yankee fans were given to personal attacks, when you had fired the first shot across the bow. **ElvisL1ves** attack was hyperbole too (although comparing me to that damnable little ball would be fighting words - I did like that he had brushback in his repetoire, though). ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210/87 "2004-10-21T14:34:14Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I am used to it. I was just pointing out how you said that we Yankee fans were given to personal attacks, when you had fired the first shot across the bow. **ElvisL1ves** attack was hyperbole too (although comparing me to that damnable little ball would be fighting words - I did like that he had brushback in his repetoire, though). There’s a difference between saying “Yankees fans suck,” and saying, “You, skutir, deserve 1,000,000 stupid points [for using an allusion that went over my head],” or “please go off and die.” Also, Yankees lose! Yankees lose! Yankees lose! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-paid-player-in-baseball-cheats/270210.md?page=4)