Lupica finally mentions Alex Rodriguez in a positive manner.

After negatively comparing ARod to Troy Glaus, David Wright, Mike Lowell, and dozens of other inferior players, Lupica can not directly praise ARod:

"Even when A-Rod was having the kind of all-time April he was having, you want to know something?

Reyes was still the best baseball show going."

You want to know something? You are wrong. We all saw it with our own eyes.

The best baseball show going was ARod.

ARod, by the way, still leads his league in homeruns, runs scored, and runs batted in. While batting .370. While playing dazzling defense.

ARod will go down in history as one of the top five baseball players of all time and you missed the whole thing, even though he played right under your nose.


But it's also a question nobody was asking. The appreciation of baseball in its totality expands beyond two morons in a bar arguing Mets vs. Yankees.

I remember Lupica and others pushing the left side of the infield thing. A renaissance of Willie, Mickey, and the Duke. I don't hear too much about it since the third baseman of the Mets is hitting under .250.

Every Yankees fan should be able to appreciate the talents of Jose Reyes. He is much better than I thought he'd be and his career arc seems to be on the rise.

(Of course, so did David Wright's six months ago. So did Edgardo Alfonzo's in 1999. So did Adrian Beltre's three years ago. So, I'll still take the guy who has done it for twelve seasons.)

Every Mets fan and every Red Sox fan should be able to appreciate the talents of Alex Rodriguez. Especially a Red Sox fan who's writing columns for the newspaper which covers the daily events of the city in which Alex Rodriguez plays baseball.


Plus, just when you think Mike Lupica couldn't possibly be more hypocritical, couldn't possibly be more of a Mets fan, Mr. Tough Guy New York Writer throws this pathetic bouquet of flowers to the Mets third baseman:

"Sports fans can boo anybody they want to in sports, booing is one of the last rights they have left.

And they sure do buy the right when they buy the ticket.

I just don't think that right should include David Wright."

So sad.

.248 with 2 homeruns and the grizzled New York newspaper man defends him.

Lupica leads the parade when ARod was gets booed, when Sheffield got hurt, when Randy Johnson was losing playoff games. Lupica said Clemens didn't deserve the Cy Young when Clemens was 20-3.

Fair enough. The Daily News is birdcage liner and nobody has to read it.

But you should be consistent if you want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Instead of defending the Mets' awful third baseman, go get Bill Gallo to draw a cartoon of David Wright in his $10 million diapers.