Alex Rodriguez is a metaphor.

For a man who claims to be disinterested with Alex Rodriguez's washed up career, Mike Lupica sure spends a lot of time writing about Alex Rodriguez.

If you think Lupica would be better served writing a human interest sports story about, say, old men playing stickball in Florida, you'd be very wrong.

Sheesh. That was even worse. Stick with what you know. Tedious, nonsensical ARod metaphors.

Alex Rodriguez is like Lance Armstrong is like Hillary Clinton's email address:
 
"The reality, of course, for as long as he is around and until his body breaks down for good, is that the Yankees are stuck with their very own Lance Armstrong. The difference between him and Armstrong, for now, anyway, is that he gets to come back to the sport that made him rich and famous, while Armstrong is now panhandling for redemption with Travis Tygart of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, so he can somehow rebuild his own sorry brand in triathlon competitions.

They both lied until they ran out of lies, but now we are supposed to believe everything they say about how pure their hearts are. And anyone who doesn’t believe, anyone who still finds the scope of the lies they told and the vindictiveness they both showed to those who refused to ignore those lies, is accused of moralizing with two men you wouldn’t trust if they told you water was wet."

Nobody believes anything they say and nobody is supposed to.

When Poor Mike Lupica is accused of moralizing, he's being accused of selective moralizing, which is despicable and unconvincing. You don't hate ARod because he's a cheater and a liar. You just hate ARod.


"Rob Manfred, the 10th commissioner of baseball, had no choice about letting Rodriguez return to Major League Baseball, and to the Yankees. Rodrigiuez had served his suspension, he was eligible to return, that was that. Manfred didn’t have to meet with Rodriguez and did, despite Rodriguez’s war on the game he says he loves so much across 2013, when he blamed everybody except Hillary Clinton’s private email address for being up to his eyeballs in Biogenesis."


 In 2013, ARod blamed everybody except Hillary Clinton's email address?

1) This is a comparison between an event that occurred in 2013 and an event that occurred in 2015.

2) An email address is not a person.

This is nothing more than "Hillary Clinton is a general topic and her email address is a current event. I'm going to make a strained comparison between Alex Rodriguez and a current event."


Alex Rodriguez blamed everybody except Dancing with the Stars.

Alex Rodriguez blamed everybody except Mike Baxter from Archbishop Molloy.

Alex Rodriguez blamed everybody except Tommy John Surgery.