"The relentless parade of apologists insisting that these Yankees fans are wrong about Alex Rodriguez, that their feelings, their instincts -- their judgments -- aren't merely mistaken, but are out of line."
Yankee fans who boo Alex Rodriguez are mistaken and out of line.
Their feelings, their instincts, and their judgements are mistaken and out of line.
"Let's get something straight: When it comes to cheering and booing professional athletes, there is no fair and unfair. There just is. What you feel is what you feel."
Maybe there's no fair and unfair, but there's mistaken and out of line.
When the AL MVP plays for your team, you should "feel" grateful.
"For some reason, people love to frame the fickleness of fans with the example of how they could cheer Rodriguez for his 12th-inning home run Wednesday and be back to booing him Friday night in the 2-0 victory over the Mets."
Well, I could look up "fickle" in the dictionary if you want me to, but it's pretty much the perfect example of "fickle."
These so-called fans claim that ARod can't get a big, game-winning hit. Sure, he puts up obscene numbers, but not at the right time. It's a bogus claim, but that's the idea.
So his grace period after Wednesday's walk-off was two at-bats. Yankee fans are a pathetic embarrassment.
David Wright struck out three times. Mabye Met fans should boo him.
"The suggestion keeps coming that maybe Yankees fans aren't as good as people want to believe, that this disposition toward A-Rod -- the American League MVP, the most talented player in the sport -- is a black mark on the Yankees' fandom."
Yankee fans who boo ARod would cry if the Yankees traded him or if ARod went on the DL. They are booing the reigning AL MVP and one of the best players ever.
"They don't support him?"
Nope.
"They don't appreciate him?"
Absolutely not.
48 homeruns last year, most ever by a right-handed Yankee, and they didn't even appreciate him then. They didn't appreciate the historic nature of a player who hit .321 with 48 hrs and 130 rbis and 130 runs scored.
Yankees fans are so spoiled, they expect a World Series title every year. They are angry that ARod hasn't won a World Series title in two whole years.
Like I said: Spoiled and ignorant.
"Sorry, but they appreciate him in the most important way possible: They come every day to watch him play, to pay his wage, and they give him a constant current of feedback."
"Feedback" does not mean "appreciation."
Adrian Wojnarowski's performance review:
"You suck. You suck. You suck. You suck, Adrian Wojnarowski. You only wrote 100 articles last year. I want 10,000 articles and two Pulitzer Prizes."
"But there's only one Pulitzer Prize per year, and ..."
"You suck."
"As much as anyone, Rodriguez has brought his problems on himself. He's responsible for people's suspicions about his motives, his agenda, his priorities."
He has already hit 100 homeruns as a Yankee. That's his agenda.
"People see him as a carpetbagger, just the way they did Roger Clemens."
Idiots, right?
A carpetbagger who won a Cy Young with the Yankees and two rings. If that's a carpetbagger, this team needs 25 carpetbaggers. Thank God for carpetbaggers.
"They hold a referendum on Alex Rodriguez every day at the Stadium. Alex Rodriguez has something to prove here. He doesn't get to decide when it's done, they do. Sports takes more and more power away from fans, but this still belongs to them. Yankee fans don't owe Alex Rodriguez anything but this: honesty."
Honestly? You're all lame and hypocritical.
I don't care about their "feelings," anyway. I want the Yankees to win baseball games.
ARod plays hard, he plays smart, he respects the game, and he's ridiculously productive. He has more homeruns at his age than any player ever. Presumably, ARod never took steroids or drugs, he never hit his wife, and he never got a hummer in the bullpen.
At Old Timer's Day, the same people who boo ARod just cheered for degenerate mercenaries like David Cone and Darryl Strawberry.
You people really understand what Pinstripe Pride is all about.
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