OT - A-Rod

[methodology]

Don't wear cargo shorts and don't eat at games, sat 10 rows back. I have plenty of money and don't waste it on pigging out on ballpark food. I prefer eating at a good restaurant before or after the game. That's the way I grew up doing it, as a kid my dad would drive us in from CT., we would enjoy the game and then head out to Chinatown or Little Italy for a good meal. You are doing it wrong.

That pre/post game meal is part of the price/night out. You get that right?

And if you are coming from CT you are leaving at the absolute latest 4 pm for a 7 pm game and getting home at around midnight. That means you are going to be eating twice

 

[superjohn]

That pre/post game meal is part of the price/night out. You get that right?

And if you are coming from CT you are leaving at the absolute latest 4 pm for a 7 pm game and getting home at around midnight. That means you are going to be eating twice

Those are two entirely different experiences. You guys spending hundreds of dollars at the game are doing it wrong.

 

[8893]

Those are two entirely different experiences. You guys spending hundreds of dollars at the game are doing it wrong.

Says the man who has never experienced the combo taco platter at El Verano Taqueria or a sandwich from Mama's of Corona.

And those are now among the most pedestrian items in the park. It's a freaking outdoor mall with food options that collect some of the city's best and most interesting restaurants and spread them throughout. I still like El Verano and Mama's though because they are local Queens establishments, and Mama's has been at the field since it was Shea Stadium. And they are both really, really good (and among the best food values in the park imo).

 

[superjohn]

Says the man who has never experienced the combo taco platter at El Verano Taqueria or a sandwich from Mama's of Corona.

And those are now among the most pedestrian items in the park. It's a freaking outdoor mall with food options that collect some of the city's best and most interesting restaurants and spread them throughout. I still like El Verano and Mama's though because they are local Queens establishments, and Mama's has been at the field since it was Shea Stadium. And they are both really, really good (and among the best food values in the park imo).

This is true. Have never experienced really good Mexican food in the Northeast, awesome deli though.

 

[Deadrody]

I don't understand guys like ARod, Manny, Bonds and Clemens, etc who were great before touching the stuff. Was it vanity to stay productive past their prime? Though never really confirmed I think it was PEDs that eventually cut Nomar's career short. Packed on more muscle than his tendons could handle and the tendons weren't strong because it wasn't from exercising.

Here's the thing. These guys didn't START it. Clemens, for instance, led the league in strikeouts in 1996, but was only 10-13 with a good, but not spectacular 3.63 ERA. And the Sox let one of the best ever walk out the door. Same year F'in Brady Anderson hits 50 HR.

These guys were the best in the game until some average players started taking PEDs and made the greats look merely average at times. Why are Clemens, Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, etc. going to sit back and let Brady Anderson get all the headlines, contract money, etc. ? That's why they did it. Vanity ? Sure. But it didn't happen in a vacuum.

 

[Deadrody]

LOL @ Yankees fans in this thread.

Well, since they'll both be up for HOF consideration together in 5 years, it should certainly be an interesting topic of discussion well outside of just NY and Boston.

 

[Deadrody]

Arod has been in PEDs since high school. Phenomenonal player and skill set but never did it without help

Utter nonsense. PEDs are also destructive to your body. There is absolutely no way in hell ARod was using PEDs as a teenage and his body was still able to support top athletic competition at age 39. Ridiculous on its face.

 

[UCbcm]

He was unprofessional and all about him. More than the PEDs, this is the kind of mushroom cap play I remember him for.

Arroyo's braids are the worst thing about that video.

 

[Deadrody]

People also conveniently forget this classic arod highlight

Definitely not. Because that's AWESOME.

It is hysterical to see some of you dip$hits come out of the woodwork with videos of that crap. The Bronson Arroyo slap ? Are you kidding me ? Whatever. You do realize you morons have won not 1, not 2, but THREE world series since then, right ?

Everytime I think I've outgrown my distaste for idiot Red Sox fans you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt why douchey Sox fans are the absolute worst in sports.

Honestly, I'm a fan of the Patriots, having lived in Boston area for 8 years and my team almost never competing directly with the Patriots, but you do know that with the shoe on the other foot, there is no fanbase more reviled in all of sports than Patriots fans, most likely because the vast majority of that fanbase is made up of long time Sox fans.

 

[Deadrody]

You're an old man who likes to fight on the internet. That's a definition of a loser

Says another old man that likes to fight on the internet.

 

[storrsroars]

Definitely not. Because that's AWESOME.

It is hysterical to see some of you dip$hits come out of the woodwork with videos of that crap. The Bronson Arroyo slap ? Are you kidding me ? Whatever. You do realize you morons have won not 1, not 2, but THREE world series since then, right ?

Everytime I think I've outgrown my distaste for idiot Red Sox fans you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt why douchey Sox fans are the absolute worst in sports.

Honestly, I'm a fan of the Patriots, having lived in Boston area for 8 years and my team almost never competing directly with the Patriots, but you do know that with the shoe on the other foot, there is no fanbase more reviled in all of sports than Patriots fans, most likely because the vast majority of that fanbase is made up of long time Sox fans.

For the record I'm an ex-Met fan currently ten toes in on the Pirates since I live here. I posted the slap because it's an unprofessional girly play.

 

[mauconnfan]

For the record I'm an ex-Met fan currently ten toes in on the Pirates since I live here. I posted the slap because it's an unprofessional girly play.

But again whyy post ARod's slap? It wasn't the first time at all and won't be the last time. As I said the ever scrappy favorite Pedey did it also. It's called reaction to making a play, it's not at all girly. Having played the game if a throw is to the inside of the bag on the line my elbow is trying to take the ball out of the glove if I can be discreet. There's not much of a difference at all except his was there for everyone to see.

 

[methodology]

Definitely not. Because that's AWESOME.

It is hysterical to see some of you dip$hits come out of the woodwork with videos of that crap. The Bronson Arroyo slap ? Are you kidding me ? Whatever. You do realize you morons have won not 1, not 2, but THREE world series since then, right ?

Everytime I think I've outgrown my distaste for idiot Red Sox fans you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt why douchey Sox fans are the absolute worst in sports.

Honestly, I'm a fan of the Patriots, having lived in Boston area for 8 years and my team almost never competing directly with the Patriots, but you do know that with the shoe on the other foot, there is no fanbase more reviled in all of sports than Patriots fans, most likely because the vast majority of that fanbase is made up of long time Sox fans.

Not a red Sox fan at all nice try.

 

[7774]

Definitely not. Because that's AWESOME.

It is hysterical to see some of you dip$hits come out of the woodwork with videos of that crap. The Bronson Arroyo slap ? Are you kidding me ? Whatever. You do realize you morons have won not 1, not 2, but THREE world series since then, right ?

Everytime I think I've outgrown my distaste for idiot Red Sox fans you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt why douchey Sox fans are the absolute worst in sports.

Honestly, I'm a fan of the Patriots, having lived in Boston area for 8 years and my team almost never competing directly with the Patriots, but you do know that with the shoe on the other foot, there is no fanbase more reviled in all of sports than Patriots fans, most likely because the vast majority of that fanbase is made up of long time Sox fans.

It's odd to me that you think someone would have to be a Red Sox fan to laugh at that play. 95+% of people I know are neither Red Sox or Yankees fans, yet they all laugh at ARod about that play because it's hillarious he would try that.

 

[storrsroars]

But again whyy post ARod's slap? It wasn't the first time at all and won't be the last time. As I said the ever scrappy favorite Pedey did it also. It's called reaction to making a play, it's not at all girly. Having played the game if a throw is to the inside of the bag on the line my elbow is trying to take the ball out of the glove if I can be discreet. There's not much of a difference at all except his was there for everyone to see.

Who is "Pedey"? Is that Pedroia? I'm not up on AL nicknames since it's not real baseball.

 

[mauconnfan]

Who is "Pedey"? Is that Pedroia? I'm not up on AL nicknames since it's not real baseball.

AL is not real baseball? Well going from the Mets to the Pirates isn't a real fan either so I guess sit doesn't matter. It's so exciting to watch both of those teams though because they are in the NL. LOL

But yes it's Pedroia.

 

[storrsroars]

AL is not real baseball? Well going from the Mets to the Pirates isn't a real fan either so I guess sit doesn't matter. It's so exciting to watch both of those teams though because they are in the NL. LOL

But yes it's Pedroia.

That's what moving to Pittsburgh does to you. You buy into it. I like going to games and it's a great park I even have a 20-game plan for a couple thou and go to Spring Training. Never did that with the Mets. I'm even watching hockey again.

But I quit the NFL. No way I was becoming a Steelers fan.

Anyway, I quit the Mets after the two choke jobs a decade ago when they were just insufferable prima donnas. Better to support the crappy team that at least tried.

 

[mauconnfan]

That's what moving to Pittsburgh does to you. You buy into it. I like going to games and it's a great park I even have a 20-game plan for a couple thou and go to Spring Training. Never did that with the Mets. I'm even watching hockey again.

But I quit the NFL. No way I was becoming a Steelers fan.

Anyway, I quit the Mets after the two choke jobs a decade ago when they were just insufferable prima donnas. Better to support the crappy team that at least tried.

I get that, moving to Pitt can make a change easier. I moved from central CT 26 years ago but it happened to be to WesMass. No shot of Yankee fan switching to their team I promise.

 

[intlzncster]

Everytime I think I've outgrown my distaste for idiot Red Sox fans you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt why douchey Sox fans are the absolute worst in sports.

There's plenty of douchey fans of damn near every team, except most perennial bottom feeders (funny that Philly fans manage to tick both of those boxes). You live in Boston, you post on the Yard, so you are exposed to way more Sox fans than any other team out there. Is what it is.

you do know that with the shoe on the other foot, there is no fanbase more reviled in all of sports than Patriots fans.

That's because they win. If they didn't, nobody would care about them.

 

[Scoe]

This is one weir send off, so Arod will be in the lineup for 2 days then see ya. Amazingly the Yankees are 4.5 games out of the wild card. So if your Cashman are you hoping to see Arod go 0-4 for those 2 days, imagine if Arod were to hit lets say 2 hrs in each game and hit a gw hr on Friday, how bad would that look for the Yankee brass. I get the impression that Girardi and Cashman really dont like Arod, in Arod's press conference he thanked the Steinbrenner family but never thanked Girardi or Cashman. Its the right decision its just a very weird situation. Alex Rodriguez-Girardi Drama Making Yankees 'Farewell Tour' a Rocky Affair

I am very interested to read an ARod or Cashman tell all book about this theres is more to the story then we know, Arod's whole career would make a very interesting ESPN 30 for 30 story.

 

[mauconnfan]

This is one weir send off, so Arod will be in the lineup for 2 days then see ya. Amazingly the Yankees are 4.5 games out of the wild card. So if your Cashman are you hoping to see Arod go 0-4 for those 2 days, imagine if Arod were to hit lets say 2 hrs in each game and hit a gw hr on Friday, how bad would that look for the Yankee brass. I get the impression that Girardi and Cashman really dont like Arod, in Arod's press conference he thanked the Steinbrenner family but never thanked Girardi or Cashman. Its the right decision its just a very weird situation. Alex Rodriguez-Girardi Drama Making Yankees 'Farewell Tour' a Rocky Affair

I am very interested to read an ARod or Cashman tell all book about this theres is more to the story then we know, Arod's whole career would make a very interesting ESPN 30 for 30 story.

Yanks were pretty shi**y in the way they treated ARod this week. Girardi's apologies were weird soon after his promises? Crazy but oh well.

 

[champs99and04]

The way this has all unfolded has been even weirder than I anticipated. First, Girardi remains staunch that his job is to win games and A-Rod sits. Then, on Thursday and Friday, with those games only increasing in significance, there he was, in the middle of the order, driving in runs to help secure victories (he also went like 1-8 in those at bats, to be fair). Tomorrow, apparently he's going home. Bizarre.

Girardi is sniffling his way through his post game presser trying to express what this has all meant to him, and I think his teammates would vote unanimously to keep him around.

This seems to encapsulate the entire Yankees season, where how far away they actually are - a couple games out of the playoffs - seems exponentially further than where they actually are. They gave away three of their best four or five players and continue to stubbornly waltz towards a playoff bid, even though some of the names are hardly recognizable.

Putting aside the fact that this would never have happened to anyone else (Tex has been nearly as bad; Jeter was nearly as bad in his final season, and any talk of release would have been preposterous), the Yankees have tried to play the situation both ways and been caught awkwardly in the middle.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

I'm a Yankees fan, but I never was a big A-Rod fan. However, I'm not going to lie, I was pumped when A-Rod hit that double in the gap and even more pumped when Gardner rounded third to score. Good for him and nice to see that he'll finish his career batting .200 this season.

 

[David 76]

The Yankees are now young, talented and have a loaded checkbook. That is the point.
A-Rod's good-bye was confusing but he left a better man.

 

[CardiffGiant]

Going to go off the tracks a bit(never happens here)-why can't the XL center do SOMETHING like Citi Field to improve concessions? The current offerings outside of the BEAR stand are just awful.

 

[Marty Jackson]

One of the best in an era? He is one of the best of all time. Bonds is the GOAT. People let PEDs skew their perception far too much imo.

Ummm.... No.
Ped's helped define borderline mlb players into all stars and some all stars into HOF's. Big Papi is the biggest. But he's likable so he gets a pass on that.

 

[UC990411]

This thread hurts

 

[huskiemaniac]

Canseco although a slime ball has been the most honest and forthcoming about the usage of steroids in baseball when he played. Mac was on roids keep living in denial

He only came clean when he was broke and wrote a book. While he was playing he vehemently denied using. Loser!

 

[huskiemaniac]

People also conveniently forget this classic arod highlight

Sure and Remy said when he played someone did that in just about every game.

 

[storrsroars]

Marlins were already thinking about A-Rod before today. Now with Stanton out for the year, there's an actual reason for Loria to bring him in. Get those tix sales for watching #700 while the rest of the team tanks.