Truth Prevails

Which is terrific, because the obfuscation of the Truth is always bad:

"This is what you were told, for months, about the guy who used to play third base for the Yankees:

You were told that it was a witch hunt. You were told, by a marching-and-chowder society in the media whose membership somehow kept declining as the facts of the case came out, that commissioner Bud Selig needed to testify in an arbitration case, or the world would stop spinning on its axis."

It still was a witch hunt and Bud Selig is still a fraudulent turd.

I don't know what marching-and-chowder society even means.

I don't feel ignorant, either, because the author of this stupid phrase has a decades-long history of saying stupid things.


"You were told that anybody who kept pointing out that the guy never told his version of things under oath had some kind of agenda. So it was Major League Baseball who was out to get Alex Rodriguez, or the New York Daily News, or the New York Yankees, or their team doctors, or Columbia-Presbyterian."

Personal animus towards one man, as demonstrated by several of the parties listed above, led to a 211-game suspension instead of the 50-game or 100-game that all the other cheaters were given.

The Daily News had no influence; the doctors were most likely competent and unfairly accused; the Yankees and MLB? No doubt they were out go get ARod.


"Rodriguez wanted you to believe that after all those players in the Biogenesis case got suspended in one day last summer, 13 players, the most sweeping set of sanctions in nearly 100 years in baseball, that Selig needed to make an example out of Rodriguez, professional victim."

This is accurate. ARod overplayed his lying hand. I don't think many people believed ARod after the others accepted their penalties.

The thing is, when you start with the idea that "truth prevails," and then you fail to suspend David Ortiz or Chris Davis ... then I am justified in telling you to get off your high horse. You look quite ridiculous up there. You're a wee man and your feet can't even reach the spurs.


"And somehow he kept getting people to go along with him, to act as if Al Rodriguez was the most falsely accused man since Al Dreyfus."

Nobody knows who Al Dreyfus is. I had to look it up on Wikipedia. Just because they both have first names that begin with "Al" hardly makes this an apt metaphor.

Must I explain the purpose of metaphors?

The purpose of metaphors is to simplify a complex subject. If your readers are having difficulty understanding Alex Rodriguez's victim strategy, perhaps you can point them towards a separate well-known victim and your readership would quickly understand.

You referenced a French story from 1894.

Again, perhaps I'm ignorant of something that everyone else knows about, but I doubt it.


"You were supposed to believe that the real issue was the methods MLB had used to enforce its drug policy, not the methods Rodriguez had used to get baseball drugs from Anthony Bosch and use them."

Both things are issues.


"Baseball’s investigators were the bad guys, not the player who seemed to have redeemed himself after his drug admissions of the spring of 2009, who helped the Yankees — mightily — win a World Series and then went looking to Bosch for a different kind of help, almost as if he went straight to Biogenesis from the Canyon of Heroes."

Both are bad guys.

Either/or is a child's way of perceiving the world.


"You were supposed to believe that A-Rod only went to Bosch for diet and nutritional advice. Or that Bosch couldn’t be trusted because he was some lousy grafter drug dealer, and never ask — if that was true — what Rodriguez was doing with him in the first place."

Yeah, that Francesa interview was nuts. I think it should win a Pulitzer Prize ... Francesa got ARod to lie to his face on record. Most compelling radio sports interview I've heard since Lupica had a parade of nameless ESPN hacks on his afternoon show ... the radio show which constantly interviews ESPN personalities in its unending pure search for the Truth ... the radio show which plays Coldplay for its theme music, as if listening to Lupica's screechy voice wasn't torturous enough.


"At long last, all those who kept saying he had been overcharged and overprosecuted saw why the arbitrator, Fredric Horowitz, ruled the way he did. No longer was it about irrelevancies, or the circus the whole thing became. It was about that."

Well, technically speaking, Horowitz ruled that ARod was overprosecuted ... he got his sentence reduced, after all.


"The circus leaves town now six months after it really began last August. Alex Rodriguez finally faces facts, even if he never told his version of them under oath. He could never make the evidence go away. He goes."

It will be interesting to see which Yankee player becomes Lupica's new target. Maybe throw us a changeup and go after the Mets who take steroids.

Because, you know ... your readers celarly value the Truth above all else.


"All winter long, we heard that Hal Steinbrenner had to channel his dad, absolutely do that, 100%, and spend as much money as the media kept telling him to spend on the 2014 Yankees."

It's still winter, you yutz.


"But you know how Hal could really channel the old man?

By making somebody or anybody accountable one of these days for the state of the Yankee farm system."

Well, sure. The Yankee farm system is definitely in trouble, but we pretty much know the reasons why and the difficulties of getting good draft picks when you win the division 20 years in a row.


Funny how Lupica sort of defends George Steinbrenner after decades of ripping George Steinbrenner.

So now that George is dead, just replace the name "George" with the name "Hal" and use the same template.

I like criticizing the Yankees' front office, and the readers seem to like it, so I'll just do that some more.

Nice work, hack.