Doesnt like ARod, doesn't see irony.

"Of the thousands of baseball players and experts Fox Sports could have selected to appear on its postseason shows, it picked the worst."

They might be the next-to-worst, but they couldn't be the worst.


"It chose the most notorious, earnest and purposeful cheater to ever play the game. It chose the man whose name is synonymous with performance-enhancing drugs. It chose A-Rod."

I don't think he's the most notorious, earnest, or purposeful cheater to ever play the game by any means.

Though decades' worth of cheaters appreciate your willingness to let them off the hook.


"Alex Rodriguez, who admitted to using steroids from 2001-03 and then was suspended for the entire 2014 season for his big role in the Biogenesis scandal, isn’t just any old baseball steroids guy. He is the guy."

Except he isn't.

Take the Mets. Their emerging superstar closer who hasn't allowed a run in the postseason.

He is the Mets' backup closer.

Can you even name the Mets' primary closer? The guy who was suspended for repeated steroid use?

Not that Mejia is more famous than ARod, but that is Christine Brennan's fault.


"Congratulations, Fox. What a terrible message this sends to children — if kids actually watched playoff baseball games anymore."

I believe that children are our future.

Prohibit them from exposure to ARod and they will lead the way.


"Experts say the use of performance-enhancing drugs by kids in high school sports has reached epidemic proportions. Seeing superstars suspended or hauled before Congress can act as a deterrent to these kids. Seeing them propped up on pregame shows as faux stars does not."

If seeing superstars suspended or hauled before Congress can act as a deterrent to these kids, then how did PED use by kids in high school reach epidemic proportions?

The Congressional hearings were, like, 10 years ago.

ARod became an analyst on Fox Sports, like, yesterday.


"Perhaps next year, Fox can put together a panel featuring A-Rod, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro. Now that’s truly hitting for the cycle.

Fox Sports’ baseball audience is minuscule compared with the NFL’s, but that doesn’t make the network’s decision any less egregious. In fact, that’s probably why Fox did it, to try to boost ratings. It’s not a coincidence that one of Rodriguez’s fellow studio analysts is Pete Rose."

1) That sounds like an interesting panel because I haven't heard from Palmeiro in a long time.

2) I think it's a total coincidence that ARod's fellow studio analyst is Pete Rose. The link is that they're both cheaters in MLB. Other than that distinction they share with thousands of other ex-jocks, they don't have much more in common.

3) Boosting ratings is not probably why Fox Sports chose ARod to be a studio analyst ... it's the only reason. What other reason could one possibly imagine?


"For all baseball’s talk and action on the subject of PEDs, it has never taken them as seriously as the Olympic world has, and it still does not. That’s why the sport allows someone who has flouted the rules as badly as A-Rod has to still be one of the faces of the game.

This tells us that the game, and Fox Sports, will do anything to get attention.

Anything."

We wouldn't want to give any attention to ARod, would we?

Think of the children.