ARod says he's sorry

[MFS62]

Meanwhile, A-Rod is getting ready for Spring Training, as noted by Carrie Underwood:
Enjoy, Later


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Right now he's probably romancing
some baseball Annie
And she's probably getting frisky
Right now, he's probably wishing
That he didn�t have those shots
'Cause his lovin� has been risky

Right now, he's probably up behind her
With a fungo
Cause his own �bat� don�t work
Why? Now he knows

He stuck that needle into his side
For his down-the-stretch Hall of Fame drive
Thought each homer would be a record feat
He swung a Louisville slugger both day and night
While he called the finger pointers liars
But maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

Right now, he still thinks its okey dokey
While all his suppliers are serving time in the pokey
Right now, he's probably thinking, I'm a hunk
And he's a thinking that he's gonna get away with that junk

Right now, he's probably dabbing on 20 dollars
Worth of that new cologne from Derek
Oh and he don't know

He stuck that needle into his side
For his down-the-stretch Hall of Fame drive
Thought each homer would be a record feat
He swung a Louisville slugger both day and night
While he called the finger pointers liars
But maybe next time he'll think before he cheats


Oh, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats
Oh, before he cheats
Oh, the next time ...

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

...with a hand-written letter to the fans, and, well, everybody else.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/109501412/alex-rodriguezs-letter-of-apology-to-fans?partnerId=as_mlb_20150217_40631696&adbid=567747270972407810&adbpl=tw&adbpr=18479513

Is this the first step to a confessional interview with the baseball version of Oprah on the MLB Network? This seems like an odd move. And because it's ARod, it will be openly mocked.

[Lefty Specialist]

Insert 'Bob Costas' for 'the baseball version of Oprah' and you've got it.

[Gwreck]

As a business/PR move, this makes good sense for him. I suppose there are some (plenty?) people who want the apology. Perhaps it helps his post-baseball earnings capacity. I read an article about Jason Giambi's retirement today that made the point that people who were felt to be unrepentant assholes (Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds) are disconnected from baseball, while those who have said they're sorry have moved on (eg. McGwire, Giambi) and have continued to work in the game.

I really don't care. I'm not going to stop disliking him, I'm not going to stop hoping this negatively affects the MFYs, and I'd still vote for him for the Hall of Fame.

[Ceetar]

Gwreck wrote: I really don't care. I'm not going to stop disliking him, I'm not going to stop hoping this negatively affects the MFYs, and I'd still vote for him for the Hall of Fame.

I continue to kind of like him personally. I'm hoping he hits 55 HR this season and the Yankees hit 80 as a team.

[Frayed Knot]

Anyone think this [u:izyev3vk]wasn't[/u:izyev3vk] a demand by Yanx mgmt coerced by threats of making every second of his pinstriped life a living hell over the next three years?

Reminds me of the Zimmer apology following his dust-up with Pedro -- the day after he suddenly realized that 'he embarrassed the organization' in a tearful on camera mea culpa.
Only problem was that it still didn't keep Steinbrenner from demanding that cameras never show him in the dugouts (even when it meant an absurd tightly-cropped shot of Torre) or eventually forcing him out anyway.

[Guest themetfairy]

Did he have to write it out one hundred times?

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Ceetar wrote: Gwreck wrote: I really don't care. I'm not going to stop disliking him, I'm not going to stop hoping this negatively affects the MFYs, and I'd still vote for him for the Hall of Fame. I continue to kind of like him personally. I'm hoping he hits 55 HR this season and the Yankees hit 80 as a team.

And all of those home runs come in losses when the team is down by more than four runs.

[Ceetar]

I want him to set the major league record for Grand Slams while down by 5 runs in which your team eventually loses.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ceetar wrote: Gwreck wrote: I continue to kind of like him personally.

What do you like about him? Personally.

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: Gwreck wrote: I continue to kind of like him personally. What do you like about him? Personally.

his $10 smile.

[dgwphotography]

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: I continue to kind of like him personally. What do you like about him? Personally. his $10 smile.

You have a thing for Centaurs, don't you?

[Zvon]

If he manually hand wrote individual letters to every fan of baseball, numbered & signed, I might forgive him.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I think MGIM forgot to finish typing the title for this thread.

ARod says he's sorry.....he got caught.

I liked Arod when he was a rapidly rising young star with the Seattle Mariners, but then he linked up with Boras and showed himself to be a self absorbed, pompous ass. It was only appropriate that he eventually joined Steinbrenner's minions (a plethora of pompous asses).

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ceetar wrote: his $10 smile.

His syringes cost $10, nothing but the best. The smile I'm
sure cost many more zeroes.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I couldn't give a shit about any of this, and not just because A-Rod plays up in the Bronx. What gets lost in all of this is that in his prime, A-Rod was twice the player Jeter ever was, but try and get any Yankee fan to acknowledge that. Jeter's best season might, might qualify as A-Rod's sixth best. A-Rod also brings to mind one of eff Wilpon's earliest and most spectacular dog and pony shows. But why would Mets fans have wanted a shortstop that hit about two HR's a week when they already had one that hit about two HR's every six years?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Was waiting for that to come up again.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: A-Rod also brings to mind one of eff Wilpon's earliest and most spectacular dog and pony shows. But why would Mets fans have wanted a shortstop that hit about two HR's a week when they already had one that hit about two HR's every six years?

Don't you claim Wilpon was in charge since, like 1993, or something?

[Fman99]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: ...with a hand-written letter to the fans, and, well, everybody else. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/109501412/alex-rodriguezs-letter-of-apology-to-fans?partnerId=as_mlb_20150217_40631696&adbid=567747270972407810&adbpl=tw&adbpr=18479513 Is this the first step to a confessional interview with the baseball version of Oprah on the MLB Network? This seems like an odd move. And because it's ARod, it will be openly mocked.

This article gives me a big sweaty YLDBoner.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: A-Rod also brings to mind one of eff Wilpon's earliest and most spectacular dog and pony shows. But why would Mets fans have wanted a shortstop that hit about two HR's a week when they already had one that hit about two HR's every six years? Don't you claim Wilpon was in charge since, like 1993, or something?

Yeah. Maybe even a little earlier.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

ARod has become such a goofball, and is so hated by his own team's fans, that I almost feel sorry for him at this point. I almost want him to do well because I know it will drive MFY fans crazy. Every milestone he approaches will bring new rounds of shame and roids stories and photos of him in a Yankees uniform, tainting him and the team.

This spring training is going to be a farce of gloriously spectacular measures. Spring lacks controversial story lines to begin with. So every media outlet is going to have people in Tampa following this clown show, asking whether he's spoken to the team, what do the players think, what is the fan reaction, will he or won't he be in the field. It's going to be an amazing distraction!

They can talk about retiring the numbers from everybody but Steve Balboni and Brien Taylor as a diversion, and it's still not going to work.

And the best part is that there's no way the team didn't know what it was getting. Maybe not with the first contract, but certainly with the ridiculous extension they gave him.

We can happily take our nice quiet spring, where the only question is whether Dillon Gee is in the rotation or bullpen, and let this nightmare play out across the state.

[metsmarathon]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: ARod has become such a goofball, and is so hated by his own team's fans, that I almost feel sorry for him at this point. I almost want him to do well because I know it will drive MFY fans crazy. Every milestone he approaches will bring new rounds of shame and roids stories and photos of him in a Yankees uniform, tainting him and the team. This spring training is going to be a farce of gloriously spectacular measures. Spring lacks controversial story lines to begin with. So every media outlet is going to have people in Tampa following this clown show, asking whether he's spoken to the team, what do the players think, what is the fan reaction, will he or won't he be in the field. It's going to be an amazing distraction! They can talk about retiring the numbers from everybody but Steve Balboni and Brien Taylor as a diversion, and it's still not going to work. And the best part is that there's no way the team didn't know what it was getting. Maybe not with the first contract, but certainly with the ridiculous extension they gave him. We can happily take our nice quiet spring, where the only question is whether Dillon Gee is in the rotation or bullpen, and let this nightmare play out across the state.

all of this. except that i absolutely want him to do well, very damned well, to magnify the existential MFY dread to the utmost extent.

[Lefty Specialist]

And that's the real fun of this, and of A-Rod in general. He's an enormous distraction. He's such a fart in a crowded room.

I hope he plays just well enough for the Yankees to not buy out his contract. I want three more years of this. I want Willie Mays to say he hit 660 home runs on milkshakes and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, when the time comes. I want A-Rod to keep saying self-obsessed stuff and appear in the headlines. Because, yes, this drives MFY fans crazy. So give me more.

[Edgy MD]

For indeed, what is life without farts in crowded rooms?