Mike Lupica doesn't like Alex Rodriguez very much.

Joba only makes about $1 million per year, so he can't really be considered much of a bust. He pitched 20 amazing innings 5 years ago and then he hurt his shoulder. Since his injury, there has been a disconnect between his baseball ability and his popularity.

I find it somewhat amusing that Mike Lupica makes it sound as if Joba was the first overhyped pro athlete in New York City history:

"Before there was Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow, there were those first loud moments when the bullpen doors would open at the old Stadium and Joba Chamberlain, a kid with a colorful name and backstory and fastball, would come through them, and the place would go mad with excitement."

When I reminisce about Joba's 2007 regular season, I think it was exactly what it was like in February with Jeremy Lin, what it will be like now that the Jets have decided to upgrade the position of quarterback with the football equivalent of bringing in a member of the Kardashian family or maybe the entire extended Kardashian family with Tebow.

"It doesn’t mean it was exactly what it was like in February with Jeremy Lin, what it will be like now that the Jets have decided to upgrade the position of quarterback with the football equivalent of bringing in a member of the Kardashian family or maybe the entire extended Kardashian family with Tebow."

Oh.

Thanks for setting me straight about Joba Chamberlain and whether or not his 2007 regular season was exactly what it was like in February with Jeremy Lin, what it will be like now that the Jets have decided to upgrade the position of quarterback with the football equivalent of bringing in a member of the Kardashian family or maybe the entire extended Kardashian family with Tebow.


Speaking of completely unrelated things:

"But is [Carmelo Anthony] a franchise player?

Or is he really the A-Rod of professional basketball, a guy with a world of talent who needs somebody else to be The Man."

I don't think that's an accurate description of either Carmelo Anthony or Alex Rodriguez.

I also think it's a bit of a false equivalence. ARod is one of the top ten baseball players of all time (ignoring possible steroid bloat). Carmelo is maybe one of the top 30 current basketball players.

Perhaps a better analogy would be to compare Carmelo to a member of the Kardashian family or maybe the entire extended Kardashian family.