Daily News columnist Bob Raissman anticipates a pre-occupation with ARod in 2015:
"In the middle of the Ray Rice/Roger Goodell media scream, this amounts to hardly a whisper. It is the name Alex Rodriguez.
Yet as the Yankees’ season, and the Summer of Jeter, heads towards the finish line, with playoff possibilities slim, that name is beginning to appear in columns. In the Valley of the Stupid, there are brief discussions, too.
One baseball scribe went as far as to write A-Rod was again a candidate to become 'The Most Interesting Man in the Baseball World.' We agree. And as fall turns to winter — and if the faucet doesn’t freeze — the name A-Rod will drip, drip, drip, some more."
"One baseball scribe" is Joel Sherman at the New York Post. I googled it.
"It does not matter if you like him, love him, or loathe him. It does not matter if you believe he is psychologically addicted to PEDs and can’t play without them. It doesn’t matter that he is 39 and has had two hip surgeries and could be shot.
None of this will stop the media, even those who want him gone forever, or rooting for him to fail, from once again becoming obsessed with Rodriguez, whenever he surfaces. We all want a good story to cover. This is also about reality — including the Yankees’ business reality."
It sounds like an apology for lazy reporting.
"No matter what side you take, if Rodriguez makes it to spring training he brings the kind of excitement, uncertainty, and chaos that was missing this season. It’s a story with the ability to jump-start the baseball season — something to actually look forward to.
And here’s hoping he doesn’t sit down for one of those lengthy soul-cleansing interviews. Just show up in Tampa, Mr. Rodriguez. And let the fun begin.'
Just so you know, one newspaper recently ran a story about ARod's LinkedIn account.
Very uninteresting.
As uninteresting as Raissman's column warning us that uninteresting ARod commentary is on the way in 2015.
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