"It was reported afterward that A-Rod was furious that the television cameras had shown him eating popcorn this way, as if he were somehow allowed to act surprised that a star New York Yankee with a movie-star girlfriend sitting in some big-ticket suite might be on a cameraman's radar.
Really?
Sometimes you wonder if the guy will ever get it."
First of all, "it was reported" is not much of a source.
Secondly, if you don't care, I don't care.
Since I'm a grown man and a baseball fan, I don't really care about Cameron Diaz and popcorn. It's not why I'm reading a baseball article in the Daily News.
"But you know what? The popcorn moment was the closest A-Rod came to making real news in this baseball winter dominated by just about everybody except him."
"Just about everybody" except ARod.
This baseball winter was dominated by "just about everybody" in the baseball universe except for ARod.
This baseball winter was dominated by Jorge Cantu. It was dominated by the Jonathan Albaladejo. It was dominated by Russ Springer -- I can't believe how Russ Springer became a national story, dominating headlines from coast to coast.
That's just a start. There are thousands of players who dominated the baseball winter news ... until the "popcorn moment" stole the headlines.
"They need him to do better than 30 home runs with Mark Teixeira hitting in front of him. Do better than .270. We obsessed all winter about Jeter's stats and how Jeter is in decline after a year when the Yankee shortstop hit .270."
Infantile analysis. Completely embarrassing.
As if batting average was the be-all and the end-all. Dismissive of ARod's 30/125; ignoring Jeter's lack of production; wild overrating of Teixeira (the worst #3 hitter in 2010?).
Stick with the gossip pages, Miss Lupica.
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