I'm amazed at how quickly he built a reputation of choking. Just about all the morning papers have some comment about him failing "again" in the clutch. Someone's going to pop off about this. Someone like Jeter or Joe is going to scold the media for perpetuating that legacy for AHole.
they almost did it, they left the awful pun out of the headline for once but then they had to put that little "bumble in the bronx" box in the corner.
I'd rather have Brosius at his 3 million dollar salary than A-Rod at his 25 million, or 16 million, or whatever we pay him.
ARod concludes another stellar series, can some foolish team take him off our hands? The guy is atrocious, we need him mroe than ever w/ all the injuries and he's worse than ever. usually he just chokes in clutch situations but now he's doing it in all situations. I am really proud of the current group except for AROd and Randy Johnson. The banged up yanks are playing hard and battling every day but guys like RJH and especially the overrated fraud ARod are killing us.
maybe a-rod is saving himself for the postseason this year? after all these are only may games right junc?
If he does perform in postseason(if we get there) all this will be forgotten but soemthing tells me he's not going to perform in october either.
Wouldn't it be ironic if A-rod had a poor regular season and the Yankees missed the playoffs? Would that change your mind about his value to the team in the past? To be fair, A-rod has nothing around him at this point. He's got Giambi in front of him who hasn't been hitting a lick and Cano behind him if Posada is out for any length of time.
No, if we miss the postseason he'll be a major reason b/c of his failings but it will have alot to do if the injuries continue to pile up and guys miss long stretches of the year. When he had nothing but great hitters around him he still always failed in the clutch. That's just another excuse for him, he should be picking up some of the load that's out w/ injuries instead of piling it on and making guys like Stinnett, Bernie, Melky and Cano try to pick it up.
None of the "big guys" came through in the series though, you can't put it all on a-rod. Jeter had 3 "hits" last night and 2 of them should've been scored errors. Giambi was up with the bases loaded and no outs and could only manage a sac fly.
No way, it's because Torre moved him up to #3 in the batting order. I also hear he got a particularly nasty fortune cookie just before the start of May.
Jeter came through those were not easy plays and at least he put it in play unlike ARod who seems to strike out looking all the time. Giambi has been in a slump, he was great the 1st month but ARod has done nothing all year outside of 2 games. Damon got things started on Fri, jeter kept it going. ARod got a hit but was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double(he was safe but shouldn't have put himslef in that situation). Stinnett ahd 2 hits, bernie had 2 hits. melky had the big walk where he battled back against Wagner on saturday. ARod grounds into a DP in the 10th and hsi error put us in a bad spot early. Last nigth Jeter in scoring position and 1 out and ARod pops out, has a chance to add 2 more runs in the 4th and lines out, in the 9th 1st and 3rd w/ 1 out down 1 and he grounds into a DP. Just about every one is contributing except ARod. Sure some guys are slumping but they aren't killing us time after time after time like ARod.
it was 1st and 2nd in the 8th when arod GIDP. nady wisely threw the ball to 3rd on giambis sac fly to keep the runner at 2nd
