TwitterThe Season Goes On
17 Oct 2012
The game is rained out. Judging from Twitter, this is a huge disadvantage for the Yankees because now CC Sabathia won’t be able to pitch in Game 7. This of course ignores the reality that the Yankees will have to win three games before getting to a Game 7 and that they would still face Veralnder in a Game 7. One day at a time folks, win Game 4 and then go from there.
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Oct 18, 2012 @ 09:52:40
What a year. This team has alternated between being absolutely awful and remarkably good.
I’d like to see them go down fighting — which for me means putting A Rod in. Rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated and he is still better than Chavez. Swisher and Granderson were given far more chances than A Rod and have earned their way onto the bench. But A Rod really has not been given a fair chance to break out of his funk.
This all strikes me as a grautuitous humiliation and is unbecoming to the team and the city.
My line up would be:
Ichiro RF
A Rod 3B
Cano 2B
Tex 1b
Ibanez LF
Martin C
Chavez DH
Nunez SS
Gardner CF
Oct 18, 2012 @ 11:51:08
Corey
I think A-Rod is on the bench because of the story about trying to pick up women during the game more than anything. I wish the Yankees would just have the guts to admit that.
Oct 18, 2012 @ 13:20:38
Peter,
Agreed — A-Rod is being punished. Looking at this objectively:
1. A-Rod has been benched more than Swisher and Granderson, even though all of them have failed miserably. The focus has been disproportionately on A-Rod.
2. A-Rod is probably the last person whose head the Yankees want to mess with, assuming the primary goal here is to win games. If, on the other hand, there are folks in the Yankees’ organization who are looking for someone to blame this collapse on . . .. Look, they’re all not hitting. but A-Rod gets benched more. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
3. It’s hard for me to see how the Yankees keep A-Rod around next year. The relationship is irrevocably fractured, IMO.
4. Peter, you are right — while A-Rod’s performance is nowhere near equal to his compensation, he is still above average. Can’t just give him away and pay him millions of dollars a year to play for someone else. Can’t keep him around. A fine mess!
5. All that having been said, this “scandal” about the note in Game 1 was vintage A-Rod. A completely avoidable mess. A few years ago someone on this website posted his hope that A-Rod would get to a point where he would finally grow up. Sometimes that happens. Other times, some guys just never grow up. A-Rod is a self-absorbed narcissist. That’s probably never going to change. Heck, as far as I can tell, Reggie Jackson still hasn’t grown up, either.
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Oct 18, 2012 @ 14:56:40
Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth are rolling in their graves. They tried to pick up women all the time. Who cares if “Stray-Rod” propositioned some women?
Oct 18, 2012 @ 15:50:02
Greg
I am certainly getting the sense that the Yankees are preparing the ground for his exit. I just hope that Brian Cashman is on board with this decision, because so far it sounds like a Randy Levine Production and I am not a big fan of those.
There is also the little matter of who plays third next year. Last I checked, there is no apparent answer in AAA and Nunez is a shortstop, or at least he is this week.
Oct 18, 2012 @ 15:55:43
Corey
It’s a different world. To use two historical contemporaries of your examples. JFK had affairs in the White House. Harding fathered a child out of wedlock. Bill Clinton didn’t get away with it and it ruined John Edwards’ political career.
Personally, I don’t care who A-Rod decides to date. But I don’t think it is asking too much for him to avoid worrying about it until after the game has ended.