"Or go back to last August, when Rodriguez camped under an easy pop-up and out of nowhere came his nemesis, er, teammate, Derek Jeter, running into him, knocking the ball out of his glove, and subjecting poor Alex to the scorn of the Yankee Stadium faithful once again.
Never mind that the error was later shifted to Jeter. For the rest of the game, the crowd continued to jeer A-Rod as if he had recreated Merkle's Boner."
Yuck.
Speaking of boners, Wallace Matthews hasn't lost his hard-on for Joe Torre:
"[Alex Rodriguez] has 119 homers and 357 RBIs in three years here, won a second MVP, yet his tenure is widely viewed as a disaster. When viewed through the prism of situations, not statistics, A-Rod's Yankees career is truly less than the sum of its parts.
When last seen in pinstripes, Rodriguez had been ignominiously dropped to eighth in the order after his 1-for-11 performance in the first three playoff games against the Tigers. He responded to the motivational tactic by going hitless in the season-ending 8-3 loss that nearly cost Joe Torre his job."
When viewed through the prism of Wallace Matthews's brain, Joe Torre's blameshifting tactic is motivational.
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