Nah, Have been an A-Rod supporter from the git....defended him, been dissapointed and happy and will continue to cheer the dude on.
Man, part of me just wants ARod to hang it up after this year, sign a minor league deal with Boston, and go on to win 5 or 6 championships just to give a big FU to this spoiled fanbase.
Spoiled? To be fair to Yankee fans A Rod did a lot of nothing in the playoffs until now... he'll even admit that...
He singlehandedly willied the Yankees to two post-season appearances -- 05, and 07. But of course Yankee fans forget that.
Please stop w/ that nonsense. He carried us early in '07 but '05 he didn't deserve the MVP and Aaron Small willed us alot more than ARod but as usualy he did nothing in postseason and postseson is where it matters. ARod is playing great this October, it's about damn time. he was embarrassingly bad from the middle of the '04 ALCS throuhg the '07 ALDS. I don't care about those years right now, I'm happy he's FINALLY playing like a big time player when it matters.
1. Aaron Small pitched far above expectations, and his results were far above expectations as well, but he hardly "carried" the team. His performance was slightly lucky, and he enjoyed a ridiculous amount of run support (7.70 runs per game). 2. When are you going to stop saying, "As usualy" [sic] regarding A-Rod's playoff performance? So far, with the Yankees, Alex has had two monster series ('04 ALDS, '09 ALDS) and could be well on his way to a third in the current series, two mediocre series ('04 ALCS, '07 ALDS), and two awful series ('05 ALDS, '06 ALDS).
Up until a couple weeks ago I thought you were a good poster. Where do you come up with this garbage? To begin with, not everyone has been anti-ARod. Me for instance. You can spend some time going back over the threads regarding ARod in this forum and see how I've defended him for a long time around here. Beyond that, people have a right to complain that he didn't perform well recently in the playoffs. It's a legit gripe. I don't agree with the sentiment that it should overshadow everything else he did in those same years, but the fact is, he failed in October recently. I haven't bitched about it because I knew someday it would all change, given that he has performed in the postseason in the past. As for the "He willed us there" thing. It's a team game. I don't want to hear any of this "individuals who carry their team all the way through" garbage. The Yankees have been one of the most talented teams in all of baseball for the past decade and a half. Jeter didn't single-handedly win any titles. Neither did Clemens, Cone, Key, Tino, Posada, Boggs, Strawberry, or whoever else you want to pick out of the crowd, including Alex Rodriguez. It's been a team effort all the way through. You're a better poster than this. And while I'm pretty certain this is sarcastic, come on. Jeter has been an integral piece of the puzzle the entire run of the past 14 years. He's a legit HoFer (and IMO a 1st ballot guy.) He's got more hits than any other person who has ever donned the pinstripes. I know other teams' fans might scoff at that, but when you really consider how he has more hits than names like Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, DiMaggio, etc. in this uniform, it's truly an amazing feat. ----------------------- So anyway, I just wanted to say to the doubters, Told Ya So! I knew this was his year.
The man was the worst player on our team from Game 5 of the '04 ALCS through game 4 of the 2007 ALDS. Wow he had one great series against Minny in '04- that erases the awful performances of the next 4 years? I'm thrilled he's FINALLY playing like a big time player in October. This is all I have been waiting for from him for 5 years but to act like he wasn't awful from the mid of the '04 ALCS through 2007 is silly.
You might want to work on your reading comprehension, because I neither said nor implied any of that. You're just setting up straw men. Of course people shouldn't ignore that his performance from Game 5 of '04 through the '06 ALDS. (In fact, I think it's pretty safe to say that they haven't.) They should just keep it in perspective. By that I mean, they also shouldn't ignore that he was great in the '04 ALDS, good/great in the first four games of the '04 ALCS, and merely mediocre in the '07 ALDS (not even close to being the worst player on the team in that series... go look at what some of the other guys did). They also shouldn't ignore things like how in the 2005 ALDS, despite not hitting the ball very much, his OBP was .435... it's not like he wasn't getting on base. If people bothered to remember, they'd recall that the Angels were pitching around him most of that series. He rarely got anything to hit. (And again, he was not the worst player on the team in that series.) The 2006 ALDS is the one where he was truly putrid. No doubt about that. He was fucking awful. Totally lost at the plate. I have no problem admitting or recognizing that. It was disgusting to watch. So, no, I don't think people should ignore when he was played poorly. What they should do is look at the entire picture and stop imagining his failures of the postseason to be some inherent and persistent quality within A-Rod. Which is why saying things like "as usually" [sic] are distortions.
A-Rod now shares the record with Ryan Howard for most consecutive games in a postseason with an RBI. Same old A-Rod, eh junc? Best hitter in the AL this postseason, bar none.
He has homered in five of seven playoff games. He has more than twice the RBI of his closest AL compatriot (Jeter). Only two other players in baseball have as many as 3 homers (Werth and Jeter have three each).
You do realize this threas was started in April of 2006, right? This is what I have been waiting to see from this guy for years. it was maddening watching a guy w/ all his talent play awful baseball every October. This is the ARod I expected when we traded for him. I'm happy he's finally coming through and it's not a coincidence we are finally winning.
