ARod is selfish.

For the 1,000th article in a row, Lupica attacks ARod:

"Alex Rodriguez doesn’t care about what’s best for the Yankees.

He just cares about getting to 700 home runs, then maybe even getting to 715 and passing Babe Ruth.

And, of course, getting paid.

Now he’s going to be a first baseman.

Right.

Then an astronaut."

1) ARod is a dead horse. Beating him relentlessly is not just bad form, it's redundant and boring.

2) Did you see the nice scoop by Foul Territory on Headley's throw in yesterday's game? The sweet RISP GIDP? When you fixate on one problem (ARod) at the exclusion of all others (the first baseman who is the worst player in baseball), you present an invalid picture of the state of the Yankees.

In other words, you're not doing your job.

3) So who cares, anyway? It's just a baseball player, right?

He's overpaid, he's a cheater, he's ... he's selfish ... he's the pro athlete who's selfish ... I was googling that over and over the past few days trying to figure it out.

Lupica is not a sports columnist, he's a gossip columnist. He uses his newspaper articles to dole out rewards and punishments. Big Papi tested positive, but we love Big Papi. The Mets who cheat or beat their wives get a rudimentary finger-wagging, but Lupica's heart is not in it. Not compared to the Evil ARod who has the audacity to take ground balls at first base in an attempt to get more playing time so he can catch Babe Ruth's HR total.

It's stupid, it's bad journalism, it presents a skewed view of the NY sports world.

Here is where the hypocrisy gets downright offensive:

"And by the way? After Goodell thought he had the right to ask for Brady’s cell phone, at least in America, Brady should have done just one thing differently before stomping it flat: He should have told Goodell to take it and shove it."

I agree totally.

The NFL has no subpoena authority.

But neither does MLB.

If a cell phone is private information which is protected by the Constitution ... then surely the blood coursing through one's body is also protected by the Constitution.

Lupica doesn't care about the Fourth Amendment when it comes to baseball players.

Specifically, baseball players who took steroids.

More specifically, baseball players who took steroids and hit lots of HRs.

More specifically than that, baseball players who took steroids and hit lots of HRs and whom Lupica simply doesn't like.

God Bless America.

There is a victim. The victim is Lupica's credibility ... and what is a man without credibility?