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Alex Rodriguez

92 by Hexpane_Archive
braudimusprime wrote:http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/02/15/ny_powers_up_with_a_rod/

Here's a particularly optimistic article from Boston Globe Sports section doing a little position by position.

Steve, I will give you that the Yankees match up favorably at most positions (exceptions: DH, right field), but the Sox rotation is much better, and I'll take the Sox bullpen as well. However, there is something about this Yankees team that makes them seem ripe for implosion to me--as Bill Simmons put it they seem more like a Fantasy team come to life than anything else. So, while they're the favorites and rightfully so, I would never in a million years bet on this group to win it all.


I love it, another reason why Bob Ryan is one of the most out of touch sports writers for boston

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FIRST BASE: Kevin Millar/[b]David Ortiz vs. Jason Giambi[/b]

Millar's value to the 2003 Sox far transcended his stats, which were first-half heavy.[b] Ortiz led the Sox in big hits.[/b] But Giambi is an ex-MVP who needed knee surgery and should be primed for a big year (provided he stays out of those front-page headlines, [b]wink, wink[/b]). EDGE: New York.


Forget the fact that even tho he gets it right this early on about Papi leading the bosox in Big Hits, and still gets a hard on for Giambi, he fucking typed WINK WINK in his article!!!!! WTF!

Alex Rodriguez

93 by AlBStern_Archive
burun wrote:Bye-bye.

Also: Joe Girardi? WTF?!?

Vockins, how come you haven't stormed Steinbrenner's office yet?


Because he knows those are both good moves. The Yankees need a lot more than ARod to compete and letting him go gives them the flexibility to make it happen. It is time to turn that team over and inject some youth into that lineup. With Chamberlain, Cabrera, Kennedy, Cano and Hughes, they are off to a good start. Girardi seems like the kind of Manager to get the most out of them.

On a related ARod note, scratch the Tigers off the list of teams Boras would have otherwise used to get a better offer from a larger market team.
Eat me.

Alex Rodriguez

96 by vockins_Archive
AlBStern wrote:
burun wrote:Bye-bye.

Also: Joe Girardi? WTF?!?

Vockins, how come you haven't stormed Steinbrenner's office yet?


Because he knows those are both good moves. The Yankees need a lot more than ARod to compete and letting him go gives them the flexibility to make it happen. It is time to turn that team over and inject some youth into that lineup. With Chamberlain, Cabrera, Kennedy, Cano and Hughes, they are off to a good start. Girardi seems like the kind of Manager to get the most out of them.


I would have rather had ARod play third next year than anyone. And the year after that. And the year after that one.

That said, if the dude doesn't want to play for the Yankees, and he obviously doesn't, I don't want him to either. The extension he was offered was serious money for a long time if the reports are accurate. ARod never called back. Dude was walking from the get go.

Considering that dumping Tom Gordon turned into Ian Kennedy and Joba Chamberlain, I'm OK with draft picks and Betemit at third.

I think Girardi will be a superior in game manager than Torre and far more likely play younger players. He will also probably be much worse with Tampa management and the media, which might be a more important skill than in game management with this particular team.

If it was up to me, I'd be playing for 2009 and 2010 with this team. 2008 is a write off unless Kennedy and Hughes turn into Johnson/Schilling.

Alex Rodriguez

98 by the$inmusicisallmine_Archive
vockins wrote:
vockins wrote:I would have rather had ARod play third next year than anyone. And the year after that. And the year after that one.

Yay, I guess.

What a clusterfuck.


Yeah, WTF? Yankees say - "we won't talk to you" because you fucked us out of the Texas money by opting out, and you are a bad man because you tarnished the World Series with your selfish actions. ARod (through his agent) says "to talk to me you need to offer 10/$350M." After 2 days of Free Agency, Arod pulls the rip cord, dumps his agent (or at least ignores his advice) and goes crawling back to the Yankees? And the Yankees agree to deal with him on a 10/$275M contract? But Boras can't be involved? WTF? What a freaking soap opera.

I am sure the Yankmees and Pay-Rod will spin it so Boras looks bad - Arod wanted to retire a Yankee, it means a lot to him to be involved with the most famous club in Baseball, the Yankees are glad the greedy agent got his....

And now the Yanks have more than a quarter of a billion dollars tied up in this guy for the next decade. He will probably make a hell of a DH in 5 years or so....

Nice offseason drama.
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