If Alex Rodriguez opts out of his contract with the Yankees after this season I think I might cry.This season, he's hit a league leading 48 homeruns, driven in a league leading 134 RBIs and scored a league leading 127 runs. You get the picture. He's clearly the MVP of the American League this season and is the most menacing figure in the Yankees lineup. He's done more this year than in the past 3 seasons put together since he became a Yankee.
Tonight against the Seattle Mariners, he hit two homeruns in the same inning; one of which was a clutch bomb to Monument Park that tied the score at 2. In one of the most important games for the Yankees of the year, Alex came up big. Finally. Last night, he literally hit the longest homerun that I have ever seen, crushing a fastball seven rows into the upperdeck. I've sat in the upperdeck with Smelmooo before and I can tell you from nose bleed experience that the ball probably went 475, if not 500 feet. The second homerun gave him 512 homeruns tying him for 17th on the all-time list with baseball greats Eddie Matthews and Ernie Banks
This season, he's done everything that Yankee fans have been clamoring for him to do since he became a Yankee in 2004. It's true, it's still September. A lot could happen between now and the end of October. A whole lot of nothing could happen for the Yankees and A-Rod in the playoffs this season like it has in the past 3 years.
Maybe it will and maybe it won't happen. But I know one thing. I just convinced myself if A-Rod leaves the Yankees after the season I'll definitely cry.
1 comment:
You cry when the wind blows. Seriously, he is definitely opting out at this point it would be foolish not to.
FYI: The first home-run actually was a 2-run shot...so it made the score 3-2 Skanks.
A-rod is a beast...and you all are still fighting for a playoff spot. From a team perspective, maybe its better you get rid of him, pick up a decent slugger and get some starting pitching. Relying on Moose and Clemens (which you will remember I bashed when you picked him up) was retarded. Cashman/Steinbrenner should be ashamed of himself, you could see this coming from a mile away.
Getting back to A-rod, he is totally under-appreciated in NY because he has yet to show up in the post-season. That is where you face the best of the best. No more garbage pitchers to feast on. Big-time players play BIG in bi-time games, unless the Skanks win the WS this year, he will never be accepted as a Skankee.
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