A-Rod’s “bush league” move overblown
Plenty of people are up in arms over Alex Rodriguez’s “Mine!” or “Ha!” call while running behind Blue Jays’ third basemen Howie Clark in the Yankees’ 10-5 victory Wednesday night. Jays manager John Gibbons called the play “bush league” after the game:
“Everybody in the games respects the Yankees; they play the game right,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “They play hard, and that’s what they are known for. But I thought it was bush league. That’s not Yankee baseball, man. Everybody respects them, but maybe I am wrong, I haven’t been around that long.”
First and foremost, I agree with Gibbons in that this move wasn’t very Yankee-like. The New York Yankees are always supposed to be the epitome of a team that respects the game to its fullest. However, isn’t this being blown up a bit because it was A-Rod? I would never expect Derek Jeter, Albert Pujols or Torii Hunter to pull a stunt like this, but what if they had? I guarantee some people would have called it a “strategic move”, but because it was an ass like Rodriguez, everybody just piles on. I’m not defending what he did, because really, we never see this kind of thing and I don’t want the MLB to turn into a Little League atmosphere where anything said, goes. But lets keep everything in perspective here. When you factor in how some first basemen fake throws back to the pitcher after pickoff attempts and how infielders sometimes fake tags in order to keep a runner from taking an extra base, what A-Rod did is kind of pair for the course. Bush league? Maybe, considering most players would never do something like that for respect of the game, but overblown? Definitely.
Plus nobody bitched when Willie Mays Hayes from “Major League” did it for the Cleveland Indians back in 1989.
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A-Rod, A-Rod A-Rod……………What can you say about this guy anymore…He is caught with some bimbette who apparently he has been hanging with for a long time then embarasses himself on the field.
If I remember correctly this is the same nut job that tried to bat the ball out of the first basemans hands a few years ago.
Lets have Vick sic a dog on his ass……….I’m sure his wife won’t mind
And yes, he will be gone next year…….let somebody else deal with this mental no-show.
Yankee Fans
We’ve come to expect this type of play from April-Rod, haven’t we? We hear how Yankee fans don’t appreciate his talent but he makes it difficult with plays like this the other night and the ball slap against the Redsox. Real ballplayers don’t need to resort to this kind of play…you can’t imagine Pujols, Jeter, or Hunter doing this because they wouldn’t even think of it. A little leaguer maybe…but not professional ballplayers who actually respect the game.
The next evening during a Mets game, former pitcher Ron Darling said that if he were on the mound, he would have drilled the next batter (Giambi) and on his way to 1st tell him to thank A-Rod when he gets back to the dugout.
Somebody please get Darling a glove…
I just love the Major League reference….that’s good as gold
Everything A-Rod, and Yankee is blown-up. They are a bunch of store-boughten money takers that are out for themselves. No Chemistry. Like Big Steinny said – the media blows up everything way too much. ……. Hopefully the Yankees will self-destruct this year.
Wishy-Washy Yankee fans probably love A-Rod today. Who cares ?
ESPN just posted a list of baseball “no-no’s” during the Yankees-Whitesox game. Don’t they have anything more important to report on than A-Rod’s baseball ethics and Roger Clemens’ tired groin?