Nah, that’ll let the Yankees off the hook. Suspend him for then next two years where he might be still useful, and let the Yankees pay him when he’s too old to provide any value.
Speaking of being a head case, he reportedly named his first-born son Apollo The First Aceves.
If the Sox had any plans for him, they wouldn’t have taken him off the 40-man.
He’s pretty much there already. They’ve probably paid him around $20 million this year and he hasn’t played a game.
This doesn’t displease me.
Umm Cleveland, Kansas City, Come here for a minute. I think you read the script wrong. This is the part of the year where the Tigers get it together and race away to an unsurmountable division lead. But you guys aren’t doing it right, and are really making a mess of things. Please take a look at the White Sox for a proper example. You’re compliance in in this matter will be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
Well, these Marlins might be woeful, but they’ve got some nice young pitching. Nate Eovaldi is slinging 100 mph heaters past hitters in the 7th inning.
Yan Gomes is another guy you should keep an eye on. I see no reason why he won’t be the Indians’ everyday catcher next season.
I used to love Wrigley Field, but now I want that shithole imploded.
Sweeping the Cubs on the road isn’t as much fun when you lose two key players to injuries caused by the fucking stadium, or lack of padding thereon. Burn the place to the ground.
On a side note, how do Cubs fans keep from slitting their wrists every season?
From what I can tell large amount of Old Style are involved.
Well, at least the road trip from hell ended with the Cards reasserting their authority on the Reds. Now they just have to stop that Dodgers freight train.
That’s part of the problem. Brick doesn’t burn. 
Oh, man, my frustration with Dusty Baker just gets worse all the time. I see the Dodgers have fiddled with their rotation to make sure certain pitchers go against the Cardinals, and others avoid the Cardinals. I don’t think this is all that unusual a move. But do the Reds think to make sure that either Bailey or Latos gets a start against the Cards. Of course not.
Also, while the Reds ultimately got whipped today, the following took place with the Reds still having a chance. Reds are down 4 to 2 in the top of the sixth. Leake gives up three straight singles, loading the bases. In this high-leverage situation, who does Dusty bring in to pitch? The only pitcher on the team besides Villareal (who is just up for a few days until Broxton comes off the DL) to perform below replacement level this year: Logan Ondrusek.
Joey Votto became a very good player later in his career than most. I hope he actually gets to play for a good manager (and one who respects what he has to offer) before his skills decline. too far.
The fact that Dusty has continued to insert Zack Cozart in the lineup day after stinking day when a tackling dummy could bat better is pretty frustrating too.
I feel the season slowly, inexorably slipping away.
Today at last we learn A-Rod’s fate. Not even Pete Rose would bet on him being allowed to play before 2015, at which time he’ll be too old and out of practice to be of any use. I say good riddance, as a Yankee fan I’d much rather lose without him than win with him. I don’t think he’ll be missed by players or fans.
There’s not much that will stop him from playing tonight. By all accounts he’ll be suspended by MLB but will be allowed to play while his appeal is ongoing.
I have never understood this. I asked a Yankee fan I know yesterday and the response to me even mentioning A-Rod’s name was so intense that I didn’t ask any follow up questions. Why the heck does New York hate him so much? He’s overpaid, yes he is. He is socially awkward and kind of a dick…but not more so than most baseball players as far as I can tell. I mean, did anyone see what Matt Garza said on twitter the other day about an opposing pitchers WIFE?
My friend yesterday went on and on about how he has sucked the whole time he has been in New York…but that’s really not true at all, he’s just been bad recently (I did NOT tell her that, she would have punched me in the teeth).
I live in Yankee country and everywhere I turn Yankee’s fans are practically giggling at the prospect that Rodriguez may never play another professional game of baseball. Can someone tell me why?
I feel it’s rather more like the season was liberally coated in grease the last few nights.
Well, to be fair, they’re still in excellent position to make the playoffs–4.5 games up on Arizona, 6.5 on the Nationals, neither of which are exactly lighting the world on fire lately.
They’ve got a better run differential, even after those two drubbings by St. Louis, than Pittsburgh, Oakland, Texas, Baltimore, Cleveland, and the Dodgers, and just about as good as the Rays.
I understand the disappointment at not ranking higher in the standings, but fans of a bunch of teams would be delighted to be in the Reds’ situation.
For me, it’s his personality. He’s a dick. It seemed to me that Jeter pretty much had that figured out soon after he started to play with him. His baserunning move when he tried to knock the ball out of a fielder’s glove was 100% bush league and an embarrassment to the team. Except for one postseason, he has choked big time in postseason play. We had Mr. October, Mr. October was a great player, A-Rod, you’re no Mr. October. Other baseball fans admire Jeter and Rivera and the class they exude. A-Rod is the mirror image of that.
It’s complicated and like most things in sports fandom it’s not really rational. But I think most of it has to do with the (accurate) perception that he’s a spoiled, insincere slimeball. There’s also the perception that he’s bad in the playoffs, which is a little overstated: until the last year or two his playoff numbers were about the same as his regular season numbers (partly because he had some good playoff performances in Seattle) and it overlooks the fact that the Yankees would not have won the championship in 2009 without him. But when you combine those things people start to see a guy who wants to be treated like the biggest star in the world and always lets you down when you really need him. People treat regular season performances as “phony,” somehow, if they’re not backed up in the playoffs. That part is unfair. But then you combine that with multiple instances of PED use, links to unsavory people like Bosch and Anthony Galea, and a lot of other little things like trying to slap the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s glove and the time he shouted at that Blue Jays’ third baseman, it paints a picture of a real louse.
This is true and at least in part, to me, it isn’t about being number one in the standings. It’s the way they are losing (the two St Louis blowouts aside) where they just can’t muster timely hitting to back up high quality pitching efforts by their rotation. It’s so disheartening to lose a game 2-1 or 3-1 when the offense gets something dreary like five hits over nine innings. What’s particularly galling is bad we are at getting runners over when we do have someone on base with one or less outs. Joey Votto is having a decent year hitting for average but his power numbers are down, Jay Bruce is a strikeout machine, left field has been a black hole of suck whomever they trot out there, the number two spot in the lineup is a mess (and I blame Dusty. I’d have Votto, our best hitter, batting there).
Anyway, yeah, all is not lost but the point of this rant is that the Reds can’t beat anybody good (except the Pirates) and that getting to the playoffs is likely to be another one and done scenario if they in fact make it.
Many Reds fans I know are operating under this delusion that when Ryan Ludwick comes back it will magically fix our hitting woes…I don’t think that’s the case.
I’ve seen plenty of disparagement of Dusty Baker, both as manager of the Reds and when he was managing the Cubs. Is there anybody who thinks he’s a good manager? Would the Reds be doing better under someone else?