People need to stop bashing the dude, he is what he is.
Issue 1: He did steroids and he probably did them for a lot longer than the three years he claims.
Answer: Who the eff cares?! Have you seen an Arod homerun? Those things aren't barley getting over the fence, they are literal "A-Bombs from A-Rod." The dude averages 460 foot homers. The deepest part of a park, center field, is 408ft. Come'on. And the last time I checked the hardest part about hitting a baseball was making contact, and steroids can't help you with that. Actually there is more evidence that steroids can hurt your ability to get the bat head around fast enough to catch up to a 96mph fastball. If i wanted someone to teach me how to hit i would go to Barry Bonds. Sure steroids helped him turn some routine flyballs into homeruns, but damn that guy had one consistent deadly swing.
Issue 2: A-Rod is what wrong with baseball.
Answer: Who the hell are you? Have you ever watched a game of baseball. A Yankee - Red Sox game last 4 effing hours! thats whats wrong. Seriously though, baseball was on it's last leggs until McGwire and Sosa started tee'n off pitchers. Everyone was watching baseball then and we all knew that those guys vein's were pumping steroids faster than the Alaskan pipeline could pump oil. But wait! All of a sudden our morals woke up after a 1-1 game in the 7th inning and said, "steroids are bad for the game." Fair enough, you can change your mind, but don't forget that we breeded this thing.
Issue 3: A-Rod has no p.r. skills.
Answer: "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy" - F. Scott Fitzgerald. Welcome to A-Rods world. Keep in mind we are talking about a guy who was a star athlete before he entered high school. This dude very likely skated through high school all while winning state championships in every sport possible. The dude had a full ride to quaterback for U of Miami back when U of Miami was still good. To add to that, rumor has it A-Rod was good enough to make the NBA out of high school, but he had to focus on only two sports so he dropped b-ball.
After high school he backed out of his deal with Miami after he was selected #1 overall in the baseball draft. You know what that means? No college. Say goodbye to thatspecial public realtions/speaking class that is tailored to college athletes and that they are all required to take.
Face it, no one has told this guy no in his life (except strippers ofcourse.) He gets what he wants and thats just how it is. His mom couldn't say no to him, he was the only man in the house and a future cash cow. He wife couldn't say no when he would find some piece of arse. How the hell is some dweeb from U of Michigan going to tell an uneducated A-Rod what to say and do?
Issue 4: He is no Jeter.
Answer: No one is. I just don't get people sometimes. Some guys have charisma, some don't. D.J. has starlets clawing for him and A-Rod pays for his or settles for 50 year old woman with crazy forearms. I don't care. I love baseball and I love the Yankees, but don't ever try to tell me Derek Jeter is a better player than Alex Rodriguez. You come to me with that ish and i will slap it back into your mouth. Yes Jeter does somethings better than A-Rod, but A-Rod didn't lie when he told GQ that Jeter will never be a #1 on any team. 50 years from now kids and historians a like will look at the numbers and it will be clearer than one of those windows in a windex commercials, A-Rod was the better player. Ever wonder why he makes more money? Bingo.
Conclusion: The media is always looking for someone to beat up and A-Rod is that guy. Ex. - media got on his case for saying how he wished Jose Reyes played for the Yanks. Oh no! that was a jab a Jeter. Well where was the media when Jeter said that he wished he played with David
Wright because he plays the game the right way? Eff the media. Yea he ain't perfect, and sure he lied to Katie Couric, but she has that face you just want to lie to.
A-Rod is just a guy who makes more money an at bat than the reporters who interview him after a game make in a year. If the Yanks win it all this year it will be inspite of him. If they don't, it will be all A-Rods fault. It is what it is.
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