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#11
07-24-2006, 01:00 AM
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I agree with OP, A-Rods treatment in NY bothers me as a Jays fan. If we had A-Rod there'd be people lining up to wipe his ass. Also, he'd play SS. [/ QUOTE ] But wouldn't Glaus have been there longer? Glaus is a leader. 
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#13
07-24-2006, 01:06 AM
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Re: Yankees and A-Rod
A-Rod is the best player on the Yankees and one of the best in the game. Any team would go nuts if they could get him.
All the noise from Yankees fans is just them being their notoriously fickle and classless selves. It's their nature and they do it with everybody.
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#16
07-24-2006, 01:24 AM
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I'm pretty sure A-Rod would veto every trade except for to the Red Sox. [/ QUOTE ] Which would never happen Also he was recently quoted as saying 'I'd rather die on the baseball field than end my career anywhere but the Yankees'
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#17
07-24-2006, 01:32 AM
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Re: Yankees and A-Rod
Yankee fans just want someone to blame for not having won the WS...in the last 5 or 6 years...Arod is a easy target. Whats funny is that Barry Bonds is hated by the majority of the country...but the fans in San Fran still love him.
I just worry that Arod might start to make his physical problem...the poor mechanics with his throwing arm...become a mental one. Not wanting to make a mistake ever. Buster Olney discussed him and CK a bit in his blog. From Buster Olney http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog...uster#20060723 The other Yankees laughed the first time Chuck Knoblauch threw a ball away. It was in Knoblauch's first spring training with the team in 1998, and Knoblauch was a star, a borderline Hall of Fame candidate. So when he flipped a throw high over the head of Tino Martinez and into the home dugout at Legends Field in Tampa, I can remember seeing some Yankees chuckling. It was an exhibition game, it was one wild throw from a second baseman who had just won a Gold Glove, it was no big deal. As it turned out, it was a symptom of a larger problem. Knoblauch had started to become afraid of making a mistake. That's what I'm seeing in Alex Rodriguez right now; he looks like he's thinking more about the ramifications of what he's doing, rather than simply playing with competitive arrogance that most stars possess, that A-Rod has possessed for years -- the assumption that he will succeed. No matter how it happened, the effects are undeniable at this point; Rodriguez's once-sturdy confidence is badly shaken. You can see it in his at-bats, you can see it in his fielding. Going forward, the Yankees' biggest concern is that these seeds of doubt don't eventually wreck A-Rod the way they infected all parts of Knoblauch's play. I don't know how they do that. Perhaps moving him into the No. 2 hole in the lineup, a place where he thrived last year, could be a start. But in retrospect, it is evident that Knoblauch's problem wasn't limited to his throwing. He stopped stealing bases, as well. The year before the Yankees traded for Knoblauch, he had 62 steals in 72 attempts, and with the Yankees, his steal total was immediately cut in half. Members of the coaching staff wondered why he wouldn't run, and at times, Knoblauch would be given the must-go sign, and wouldn't go; I couldn't get a good jump, he would explain. Some teammates noticed that when Knoblauch was thrown out, even on a play when he was arguably safe, he would immediately get up and sprint off the field -- almost as if he didn't want anyone to notice that he'd been thrown out. At age 34, Knoblauch, with complete physical health, dropped out of baseball for good. Rodriguez is not anywhere near where Knoblauch ended up. He won the Most Valuable Player Award in 2005, and will drive in more than 100 runs again this year. But he is spooked. Torre is trying to help him, just as he tried to help Knoblauch. After Rodriguez made another bad throw Friday, Torre used him as the designated hitter, and A-Rod responded with four horrendous at-bats, whiffing in each. Steve Phillips is a complete douche....kind of surprised though that HE is agreeing with him.
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#18
07-24-2006, 01:33 AM
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[ QUOTE ] I'm pretty sure A-Rod would veto every trade except for to the Red Sox. [/ QUOTE ] Which would never happen Also he was recently quoted as saying 'I'd rather die on the baseball field than end my career anywhere but the Yankees' [/ QUOTE ] What a drama queen... he'd give anything to go back to Texas and play 162 meaningless games... NT
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#20
07-24-2006, 01:40 AM
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Re: Yankees and A-Rod
Charlie,
Interesting! It also shows that while some players thrive under the spotlight and expectations of NYC, others wilt underneath it. I've always thought that Homosexual_Rod was way too much of a delicate flower to succeed in NY, but his talent may help him overcome the press for at least a few seasons. There was an article in the NY Times last week about his pretty boy-ness being a distraction to the team, and while I thought it was overkill, I'm also not nearly close enough to the subject to make an educated assessment... -- tuq
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