"Now A-Rod is happy at last, even if he hasn't hit much lately, even if he has the 19 quietest home runs in the big leagues."
Mike Lupica isn't impressed with the man who leads the American League in homeruns. The homeruns were too quiet.
I personally thought all 19 were loud. Most loud was the bomb to centerfield off Arthur Rhodes to tie the game in the ninth inning. While that's sort of dramatic -- more dramatic than all of ARod's boring homeruns in the first inning and the third inning -- it still wasn't dramatic enough.
It's going to take a lot more to impress Mike Lupica. Mike Lupica has been around. He remembers Reggie. He remembers Tino. He remembers Brosius. Has ARod hit a game-tying homerun with two outs in the ninth inning in the World Series? Thought not.
The other players in the major leagues with 19 homeruns? Like Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez? They hit loud homeruns. Out of Jim Thome's 25 homeruns, 24 of them are game-winning grand slams, and the other one was off of Ralph Branca to win the pennant.
Is that loud enough for you, Mister ARod Moneybags? Why don't you hit some loud homeruns?
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