A-Rod sucks

rippy cripple wrote:

A-Rod sucks

A-Rod sucks

A-Rod sucks

A-Rod sucks

A-Rod sucks

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That's the most ridiculous thing ever. A-Rod carried the Yankees in April and then again in the latter part of the season when they needed him to help them even make the playoffs. He's the best player in baseball right now and coud perhaps be considered the best of all time when his days are over.

He'll be the MVP this season, the second time he's won that award in his short Yankee career. I don't think he was on the mound giving up 12 runs to the Indians.

To say A-Rod sucks is to not understand baseball, and don't give me that crap about things only counting during the post season either. If a great post season proved the best players, then Dan Gladden and Gene Tenace would be in the Hall of Fame.

Get this through your skull -- without A-Rod, the Yankees would ALREADY be sitting at home this year, and you might be looking at a different (and worse) manager for next year.

Get this through your thick skull: The Yankees did not pay Arod his four-bazillion salary just to make the playoffs; they actually expect him to get a hit in the playoffs, too.

Top of the 9th. Chance to knock in the go-ahead run. Whiff.

Give me Dan Gladden any day over A-O-for-October in the playoffs. Cause I actually want to win it all.

It's not just that A-rod struck out three times tonight in going 0 for 4, including a pathetic effort in the ninth with the go-ahead run in scoring position; it's that he looked like a deer in the headlights doing it. He gets a troubled look about him in the playoffs, gets all out of sorts, and waves at bad pitches over and over.

I think the Yankees best bet would be to not tell A-rod that they're in the playoffs. Just tell him it's still the regular season and he'll be fine.

dfsfsfds wrote:

Get this through your thick skull: The Yankees did not pay Arod his four-bazillion salary just to make the playoffs; they actually expect him to get a hit in the playoffs, too.

You need Arod to blame so you don't have to acknowledge just how ridiculous the yankees are with their team salary. We're pushing 10 years since the yanks won the series...Arod has been around for only 3 or 4.

Don't worry flaggy. I know plenty about baseball. Just trying to get the Yankee fans going a little.

A-Rod is just like all the other players. They feast on the poorer pitchers in the league but have trouble against great pitching. Since they always face that great pitching in the playoffs, their averages are often well below their season averages.

Albert Belle hit all of his homeruns off of scrub pitchers. At one time, he had one of the longer consecutive game streaks. He did that so he could hit a couple homeruns off of some AAA guy a team brought up late in the season to pad his stats. Frank Thomas did the same thing.

There are great athletes though that really tighten up during crunch time. A-Rod is one of those guys who seem to try a little too hard in those situations.

A-Rod is by far the best player of this generation. I remember reading about him when he was the USA Today player of the year in high school. Some Yankee fans may not think so, but his career has been everything they predicted it would be.

All of that still doesn't change the fact that in the first two games of this series, A-Rod has sucked!!!!!

He may even be among the 20 best players of all time.

Actually, the Yankees haven't gotten much at all for $72M... 2 for 15 (ARod is 0 for 6, Jeter 0 for 8, Giambi 1 for 1).

1. Alex Rodriguez New York Yankees $ 27,708,525

2. Jason Giambi New York Yankees $ 23,428,571

3. Derek Jeter New York Yankees $ 21,600,000

4. Manny Ramirez Boston Red Sox $ 17,016,381

5. Todd Helton Colorado Rockies $ 16,600,000

6. Andy Pettitte New York Yankees $ 16,000,000

7. Bartolo Colon Los Angeles Angels $ 16,000,000

10. Bobby Abreu New York Yankees $ 15,600,000

15. Vladimir Guerrero Los Angeles Angels $ 14,500,000

17. J.D. Drew Boston Red Sox $ 14,400,000

23. Jason Kendall Chicago Cubs $ 13,429,623

24. David Ortiz Boston Red Sox $ 13,250,000

25. Derrek Lee Chicago Cubs $ 13,250,000

26. Pat Burrell Philadelphia Phillies $ 13,250,000

29. Johnny Damon New York Yankees $ 13,000,000

30. Hideki Matsui New York Yankees $ 13,000,000

31. Curt Schilling Boston Red Sox $ 13,000,000

39. Carlos Zambrano Chicago Cubs $ 12,400,000

42. Jorge Posada New York Yankees $ 12,000,000

46. Garret Anderson Los Angeles Angels $ 11,600,000

50. Mike Mussina New York Yankees $ 11,070,423

51. Jason Varitek Boston Red Sox $ 11,000,000

55. Mariano Rivera New York Yankees $ 10,500,000

60. Carl Pavano New York Yankees $ 10,000,000

62. Alfonso Soriano Chicago Cubs $ 10,000,000

65. Freddy Garcia Philadelphia Phillies $ 10,000,000

73. Matt Clement Boston Red Sox $ 9,500,000

77. Randy Johnson Arizona Diamondbacks $ 9,100,546

78. Mike Lowell Boston Red Sox $ 9,000,000

80. Kelvim Escobar Los Angeles Angels $ 9,000,000

81. Aramis Ramirez Chicago Cubs $ 9,000,000

85. C.C. Sabathia Cleveland Indians $ 8,750,000

87. Orlando Cabrera Los Angeles Angels $ 8,500,000

93. Julio Lugo Boston Red Sox $ 8,250,000

97. Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies $ 8,000,000

100. Jon Lieber Philadelphia Phillies $ 7,833,333

*that was supposed to be Jeter 1 for 8.

frog from new jerseyu wrote:

He may even be among the 20 best players of all time.

If A-Rod plays another 8-10 years, he will be in the top 3.

Cleveland's payroll will be going up in the next couple years. I hope we can start selling out the stadium again so we can afford the 20 mil a year it will take to resign C.C. after next year. Cleveland's payroll can go to 90 mil if we stay on a roll and fill the stadium.

do you mean like jeter? yeah, he really rocks in the regular season and sucks in the post season.

you do realize that the yankees aren't paying nearly that much for him right? since the rangers are still picking up a substantial amount of the contract. but keep saying their paying "Four-bazillion" dollars.

The problem is that the Yankees have no second gear, lacking

the ability to "get up" for the big game. Blame Joe Torre and Captain Derek Jeter for this. Where is Paul O'Neil when we need him?

A-Rod....Mr. April.

And, yes, once the calendar turns to October, A-Rod sucks. You don't need a Ph.D. in sabermetrics to understand that.

well this year he was mr april, may, june, july, august and september. the problem is that we are in october. i thought that the most telling part of the game was when arod was up in the 9th with a man on second and the indians decided to pitch to him. that was unheard of during the regular season. of course he whiffed and whiffed badly.

Don't go messing with Dan "Wrench" Gladden, Flagpole. Every team should have a guy who cares about the game as much as he did. One of the things about these big-buck teams like the Yankees is that it becomes all about the paycheck (and the image and the endorsements ...).

If A-Rod is so great, then why did Cleveland pitch to him with a tie score in the 9th inning with the go-ahead run on second and 1B open?

I can't wait to hear the NY fans boo him in Game 3.

Is A-Rod on the juice? ROFL

ROFL wrote:

Is A-Rod on the juice? ROFL

He stops taking it in the postseason. Better testing standards there.

I don\'t care for the Yanker\'s but truth be told they made the playoffs because Arod carried them there. To say he sucks is ridicules the team sucks. Maybe they should step up and hit some for Arod. Gumbi has taken drugs and is payed a crazy amount of money and is allowed in the sport and on the team. He has done nothing, this blog should be trashing him not Arod.