A-Rod is retiring this Friday

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For any other player, Big Papi would be the Red Sox representative saying farewell. But they're not on the best of terms
 

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If any Red Sox fans cheer him after over a dozen years of booing him they are hypocrites. Simple as that.
Agreed. It wouldn't be the same. I would be ashamed if they didn't boo him out of the house. Big difference between him and Jeter. You respected Mo Rivera and Jeter (I was at both of their last games at fenway) because they played the right way. ARod cheated the game.
 

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I was in favor of the Manny/Lester trade for him. (Thank you MLBPA.)

This guy was a great player and a troubled person. The Rangers and (unfortunately) the Y's are better for his departure.
 

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Listen, we boo'd Magic, we boo'd Jeter... you can boo a guy and then ultimately give him his due respect as he walks away. I don't have any trouble with that at all. But this guy deserves none of that. NONE.
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I don't care if he gets applause at Fenway. Ultimately, the Sox came out better that the deal fell through.

And, unlike Rivera, Jeter, Posada and Pettite, he was really easy to dislike for a variety of reasons. However the guy was undeniably one of the best hitters of his generation and his on and off the field drama provided fantastic entertainment with little in the way of actual collateral damage (except maybe to the Yankee payroll).

Finally, we have all been down the road about PEDs so its not worth rehashing here but if you are in the camp that believes a significant number of players have always used and continue to use something to get an edge, the guys sins are really down to being an entitled douche. That probably describes the vast majority of guys who make it to the majors - the difference is that most of them are good at hiding it. ARod, thankfully, was not.
 

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Agreed. It wouldn't be the same. I would be ashamed if they didn't boo him out of the house. Big difference between him and Jeter. You respected Mo Rivera and Jeter (I was at both of their last games at fenway) because they played the right way. ARod cheated the game.
It was a loosey-goosey era when A-Rod used in 01 to 03. Highly competitive athletes at the highest level of their profession trying to keep up with each other while the Powers That Be largely ignored it.
 

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It was a loosey-goosey era when A-Rod used in 01 to 03. Highly competitive athletes at the highest level of their profession trying to keep up with each other while the Powers That Be largely ignored it.
Just curious about why you mention 01-03 only.
edit: i know that was the years he said he used while during an earlier admission (before being busted again)
 

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Regardless of what happens five minutes from now, being a Red Sox fan since 1966 and MFY hater since 1975 (in the late 60's/early to mid 70's they stunk on ice; they came back as an organization thanks to the advent of free agency), this guy is by far the most hateable Yankee ever for me and that's saying something.

My most memorable A-Rod moment is him standing on second base in game 6 of the 2004 ALCS pleading his case and doing a running motion claiming that is how the ball got knocked out, not him swiping at it with those foolish looking Mickey Mouse white oven mitts.

None of his accomplishments mean shit to me; he's a fraud who thinks his shit is ice cream.

He can't retire fast enough.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out you stooge.
While he did have his douche moments let's also not forget that he would have taken less money to come to the Sox and that he was the good guy during the Jeter Temper Tantrum over who would play SS
 

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You know that almost certainly means via ticketholders, not via NY, right, rem? I'm starting to worry a little about you.
 

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You know that almost certainly means via ticketholders, not via NY, right, rem? I'm starting to worry a little about you.
Yea it was a joke.

I just can't hate the guy anymore. He didn't touch children, he didn't drunk drive kill a person, he didn't assault his wife then unload a pistol into a wall, he didn't throw an elderly man on to the ground (field or clubhouse)..

He was a goofy dude who was insanely great at baseball and loved the sport immensely who used steroids. Get over it.
 

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Yea it was a joke.

I just can't hate the guy anymore. He didn't touch children, he didn't drunk drive kill a person, he didn't assault his wife then unload a pistol into a wall, he didn't throw an elderly man on to the ground (field or clubhouse)..

He was a goofy dude who was insanely great at baseball and loved the sport immensely who used steroids. Get over it.
The guy is a perpetual liar and manipulator. He uses his charisma to get people like you on his side when he speaks to the media. I'm not falling for his bullshit. Every hardship he's ever had in the game of baseball he's brought upon himself.
 

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The guy is a perpetual liar and manipulator. He uses his charisma to get people like you on his side when he speaks to the media. I'm not falling for his bullshit. Every hardship he's ever had in the game of baseball he's brought upon himself.
All my dislike for charismatic pathological liars is currently tied up by Donald Trump.
 

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I will miss having that (admittedly declawed recently) super villain in the league. Who has even been in second in revilement around the league over the past 5 years? Puig? Braun after his PED thing?

With this and Subban out of Montreal, someone else is going to really need to step things up. Beating Showalter in the ALCS and Maddon in the WS would be a good start.
 

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you think insanely self-absorbed clueless narcissism combined with overwhelming neediness is charismatic ? good lord
If he wasn't charismatic he wouldn't have gotten this far. He's a steaming pile of shit but people like watching him.
 

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I think if he starts all three games in Fenway (which he probably should, if he wants to), Boston fans will most likely cheer his first AB in the first game and boo the crap out of him for the rest of the series. Just a guess, though...
 

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I just can't hate the guy anymore. He didn't touch children, he didn't drunk drive kill a person, he didn't assault his wife then unload a pistol into a wall, he didn't throw an elderly man on to the ground (field or clubhouse).

He was a goofy dude who was insanely great at baseball and loved the sport immensely who used steroids. Get over it.
You write better Felger fanfic than anyone in the media forum. This is verbatim what I expect between 2-6 tomorrow afternoon.
 

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The guy is a perpetual liar and manipulator. He uses his charisma to get people like you on his side when he speaks to the media. I'm not falling for his bullshit. Every hardship he's ever had in the game of baseball he's brought upon himself.

Alex is not charismatic. He is more of a try hard

Call me when someone busted for PEDs tells the truth.
 

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If he wasn't charismatic he wouldn't have gotten this far. He's a steaming pile of shit but people like watching him.

Could be something to do with being the greatest player of his generation or 2nd best if you count him and Bonds as contemporaries
 

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It sounds like he is going to be unconditionally released and then he will sign a new contract to remain with the organization as an advisor, etc.

As such, I think he collects all of his money.

However, by not reaching the 700 HR milestone, the Yankees do save money on that.
And the happy children of Nicaragua get the ARod 700 Club T-shirts for XMas

His last AB I'd cheer the guy, he was a great flawed fallen hero/villian.

I sense it turned out he cheated himself more than he cheated the game.
 

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Yea it was a joke.

I just can't hate the guy anymore. He didn't touch children, he didn't drunk drive kill a person, he didn't assault his wife then unload a pistol into a wall, he didn't throw an elderly man on to the ground (field or clubhouse)..

He was a goofy dude who was insanely great at baseball and loved the sport immensely who used steroids. Get over it.
This is where I'm at, except I'm not sure about his love for the game. The most salient aspect of A*Rod's public persona is his phoniness; I'd be hard-pressed to say I know anything about his internal thought processes or emotions -- but as you say, that's a trivial matter in the grand scheme of things.
 

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C'mon man. You forgot about me already? I scared the shit out of you guys for like a decade.

Wait - which Pettitte admission was the true one?

[In 2007] Pettitte verified McNamee's claim, admitting to using the HGH on two occasions in 2002, as it was meant to help heal an injury, and not to enhance his performance....He denied any further usage of HGH during his career; he also denied use of steroids or any other performance-enhancing drug.[74]

On February 13, 2008, in an affidavit made public as part of a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform, Pettitte admitted to additional injections of HGH twice in one day in 2004, using HGH obtained via prescription for his seriously ill father.
 

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Heh, Ryan Dempster saying on MLBN that of course he threw at A-Rod intentionally.
 

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Heh, Ryan Dempster saying on MLBN that of course he threw at A-Rod intentionally.
Yeah, b/c he's an idiot, wanting to make a statement even if it means putting a man on base. That's about as idiotic as imagining the RS giving him a great pitch to hit during the upcoming series as a good-bye gift.
 

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He did save that boy from a truck on Newbury Street in 2005. Of course, the eight year-old turned out to be a Yankee fan.
He did give that child with cancer his bat after hitting a home run at Fenway this year, and was cued to do so by Ortiz so I think he and Papi made up.
But he's a weird guy. Of all the guys in my lifetime who started with Seattle as teenagers and finished with between 600 and 700 homers he is by far the weirdest and by far my least favorite.
 

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Yeah, but he and Bonds aren't going to be with the same team if Arod is a special instructor to the Yankees young'uns.

Edit: I was wrong. Apparently he won't start teaching duties until spring training.
 
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