I hate the Yankees more than anything. I also don't really like AROD because, as a Mariners fan, I hated to see him leave for the money.

It's funny how 35 HRs, .290 AVG, and 121 RBIs can be considered a down year. This year he is on fire (12 HR, 30 RBIs in only 17 games this year) and I expect to see him back to or better than the "usual AROD" form.

Arod, if he stays healthy, will go down in the top 3 best baseball players of all time (if not the best) when he retires. I also expect him to break Hank Aaron's and soon-to-be Barry Bonds HR record. He needs only 27 HR a year for the next 10 years (he'll be 42) to break Hank Aaron's record.

Discuss.

4/21/2007 2:10:28 AM

4/21/2007 2:12:56 AM

hopefully he will take steroids like bonds and have one REALLY good year where he hits 95 HRs

4/21/2007 2:14:54 AM

i laughed last year when people said that was a "down" year. I mean, it was. But A-Rod has just been that good over his career.

4/21/2007 2:34:48 AM

i heard earlier this year from a pretty good source that he is on the roids....... I didnt believe him, but i guess the extra weight and the home runs have spoken for themselves

4/21/2007 4:02:24 AM

^ He lost weight over the offseason, and has hit for power his whole career, even when he was a skinny teenager on the Mariners. It's not all that surprising that a player like ARod can go on a tear like this as he has always had very good power and right now he is seeing the ball very well and connecting well. When you combine those two things you're going to get a lot of HRs. I emember 2 years ago when Tino Martinez hit something like 8 HRs in 8 games or something like that as a pretty much washed-up player. What Arod is doing is amazing, but I don't think there is any way he is on steroids.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02202007/sports/yankees/at_last__a_rod_can_just_go_out_and_play_yankees_joel_sherman.htm

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 8:41 AM. Reason : link]

4/21/2007 8:41:23 AM

I think people were saying he had a "down" year last year because he never came through in the clutch (like he obviously is this year) and had a horrendous postseason.

I don't get booing A-Rod though. I was at a game last summer in Yankee Stadium, and he comes up to the plate his first 3 times and gets outs and people were all over him....then later in the game hits a walk off home run to beat the Braves, and of course, everyone's cheering him.

He should do what Charles Barkley said on Sportscenter last night....win the HR title, BA title, etc...win the MVP....win the World Series...and then say FUCK YOU New York....and hopefully go play for Lou in Chicago.

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 10:22 AM. Reason : s]

4/21/2007 10:22:20 AM

or go back to Seattle and play for the Mariners again

we would love to see him back

the team has the money to shell out for his ridiculous contract but our piece of shit GM likes to spend his money on shitbags like Beltre and Sexson

Bill Bavasi is the biggest fuckup in the MLB

and booing AROD was just plain wrong. NY doesn't deserve him at all and he should get out no matter where he goes (except for anywhere in the AL West beside the Mariners)

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 10:32 AM. Reason : yo]

4/21/2007 10:31:33 AM

Good thing the playoffs are in April.

Waiiiiiiiiiiit

4/21/2007 12:19:13 PM

^ good point. Its very early still.

Two things about all this are very apparent though:
-AROD is one of the best players ever to play the game.
-He needs to tell all those Yankee fucks to go to hell and go somewhere he will be appreciated and not railed for every mistake he makes because the fanbase is already woozy over shitbag Jeter who cant stand the fact that AROD is a better player than he is....

4/21/2007 12:25:42 PM

^I agree. I can't fucking stand Yankees fans. He needs to leave them and then call them out for not being loyal, but there's probably not many other teams that can pay him as much as the Yankees.

4/21/2007 12:48:07 PM

^^ What exactly has Jeter done that makes you say he can't stand the fact that ARod's better than him? He's always one of the first to high-five ARod after his home runs and he and I've seen him laughing in the dugout with ARod plenty of times. I think the media made a much bigger deal out of him and ARod not having sleepovers anymore than they needed to. They both seem to be fine with eachother and they still look like they're friends.

4/21/2007 12:53:06 PM

Its the whole thing about being "Mr. Yankee". I listen to alot of talk radio from all over the country and it is the resounding opinion that Jeter and AROD dont mix off the field. Think about it: makes sense that Mr. Yankee should be the best player on the team, right? The guy getting all the good pub from the local rags no matter what he does. Who are the two best yankee players : AROD, then Jeter (AROD also makes more $$ than Jeter).

You could argue many ways about that though, I guess....

4/21/2007 12:59:06 PM

Well, if the rumor comes true that Mark Cuban wants to buy the Cubs from that billionaire dude that just bought the Tribune company (that previously owned the Cubs), you can guarantee he wouldn't have a problem shelling out whatever it took to get A-Rod. He would build them up like the Mavericks. Mark Cuban is a winner, and I would love to see him buy my favorite team....I just don't know if the owners would vote against him entering baseball or not.

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 1:00 PM. Reason : a]

4/21/2007 12:59:07 PM

4/21/2007 1:02:11 PM

lot of idiots in this thread

4/21/2007 1:04:55 PM

Quote :

"This year he is on fire (12 HR, 30 RBIs in only 17 games this year)"

not 17, in only 15 games, DUDE!

4/21/2007 1:43:53 PM

^you're right

that's even more amazing

I predict 60-65 HRs this year from AROD

He's on pace for 128 HR (obviously highly unlikely)

4/21/2007 3:02:09 PM

I predict a massive slump coming on.

Yankee fans will be booing him again by midseason.

4/21/2007 3:11:59 PM

there will not be a massive slump. Maybe so if by slump you mean he won't be averaging 0.8 homers a game then yes. But a massive slump with A-rod? That's pretty a pretty naive statement.

4/21/2007 3:17:18 PM

I hope he breaks Bonds' single season HR record, then choke in the playoffs again. Then he'll opt out of his massive contract for an even more absurd contract to play for the Red Sox. Yep, I can see it already.

4/21/2007 3:50:14 PM

Alex was a Mets fan growing up and offered a discount to the Mets when he was a free agent before signing w/ Texas (thanks for f'ing that up Wilpon as I like Reyes plenty)... he even wore white shoes in the All Star game to honor the '86 Mets according to him.

That said he'll be a Dodger or a Cub IF he leaves, which I don't think he will, but I wet myself thinking of this infield:

Delgado 1B
Wright 2B
Reyes SS
A-Rod 3B

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 4:47 PM. Reason : x]

4/21/2007 4:47:41 PM

i've always liked a-rod as a player, minus his bitch moves against the red sox (the fight with varitek, the purse slap at first base). i just refuse to believe ANY player is worth a quarter of a billion dollars

4/21/2007 4:58:44 PM

with no salary cap, the best player in baseball is worth whatever the highest bidder can pay without the team losing money.

4/21/2007 6:44:36 PM

i'm gonna laugh my ass off (fuck the yankees) when he tanks in oct.

4/21/2007 8:04:38 PM

i'm going to laugh my ass off when arod wins the mvp and the yankees lose the series on 4 blown rivera saves, and then arod opts out of ny and plays for the cubs.

or something like that

4/21/2007 8:57:18 PM

no homers for AROD today

looks like the douchebag NY fans are gonna boo him when he gets back to NY

4/21/2007 9:05:34 PM

uh

and another one

4/23/2007 7:28:01 PM

dude is a fucking beast

13 HR, 31 RBI, as of the 2nd inning with 0 outs

4/23/2007 7:28:23 PM

turned the game on right when he came to bat

UN BEEEE LIEVABLE

4/23/2007 7:29:12 PM

funny thing is if he hit that exact same ball last night, it woulda been a double off the Monster

4/23/2007 7:32:14 PM

too bad a-rod cant pitch.


Igawa getting lit up again.

4/23/2007 7:47:12 PM

theyre calling up hughes to pitch thursday tho

at least they won't have to start pettite on 1 days rest

4/23/2007 7:56:53 PM

I'm going to Hughes' game on Thursday

ARod is the fastest player in history to reach 13 HRs

[Edited on April 23, 2007 at 9:19 PM. Reason : a]

4/23/2007 9:19:37 PM

i just hope he hits 74 this year

4/23/2007 9:27:20 PM

14

4/23/2007 10:33:59 PM

kidding me arod?

4/23/2007 10:34:02 PM

HOT DAMN!

4/23/2007 10:34:22 PM

ties april record with 6 games left

sosa had 20 in june of 98

[Edited on April 23, 2007 at 10:37 PM. Reason : also arods hitting 400 with 34 rbis]

4/23/2007 10:34:35 PM

this is absurd

4/23/2007 10:43:56 PM

Remember when he had that drought against Boston where he didn't have any home runs for 2 games?

4/23/2007 10:44:51 PM

he already looks like he does the roids

4/23/2007 10:53:22 PM

Quote :

"Good thing the playoffs are in April. Waiiiiiiiiiiit"

yankee's wont make the playoffs without arod ... I mean he carries them for 160 games, the other 20 guys could do him a favor and show up in the playoffs.

4/23/2007 10:53:31 PM

Quote :

"yankee's wont make the playoffs without arod better pitching "

4/23/2007 11:02:50 PM

"he carries them"

Anyone else notice the losing that has been going on? he has hit what, 4-5 home runs in the last 4 games, with 4 losses. quite a showing!

4/24/2007 12:10:36 AM

He is on pace to hit 126 HRs

4/24/2007 12:31:06 AM

thnx sportscenter

4/24/2007 1:31:39 AM

Quote :

"he carries them" Anyone else notice the losing that has been going on? he has hit what, 4-5 home runs in the last 4 games, with 4 losses. quite a showing! "

you're a moron

or delusional ... one of the two


through 17 games (before tonight) tack on 2 more bombs and 3 more rbi's


http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/Statistics/Team/playerstats?team=nyy


[Edited on April 24, 2007 at 3:57 AM. Reason : k]

4/24/2007 3:54:15 AM

as Bill Simmons said,

"A-Rod is like pollen, you can always count on him to make an impact in April and May"

4/24/2007 9:46:18 AM

Quote :

"yankee's wont make the playoffs without arod ... I mean he carries them for 160 games, the other 20 guys could do him a favor and show up in the playoffs."

If you haven't noticed the rest of the team is playing pretty damn well too, with most of them having averages above 300. Its the f*cking pitching!

4/24/2007 12:59:42 PM