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10-10-12 11:26 PM #1076
Re: 2012 Alex Rodriguez Performance Thread
Agreed. He's just in between right now. Passive when he should be aggressive, hacking when he should be taking. He's not seeing the ball well, guessing wrong, some combination of things that are leading to poor production. I don't think he looked terrible in spite of the results, except for the last K. But at some point, you need to avoid these strings of outs.
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10-10-12 11:26 PM #1077
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10-10-12 11:26 PM #1078
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10-10-12 11:26 PM #1079
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Do you really believe that a player of Arod's magnitude, having been one of the best players in MLB, and possibly one of the greatest HR/RBI hitters in the history of the game, believes that he is a shell of his former self now? I agree that the team is more important and Arod said as much, if not more, after the game but it still has to be a tremendous blow to his pride. And whether we like it or not, he still has multiple years left on that absurb contract so hopefully it does not effect him too much in a negative way.
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10-10-12 11:27 PM #1080
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10-10-12 11:28 PM #1081
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I hope like hell the YS crowd gives him a good reception his first time up.
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10-10-12 11:29 PM #1082
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Kay is just overreacting. I saw Alex talking to reporters on sports enter just now and he sounded just fine.
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10-10-12 11:30 PM #1083
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I hear you. My post was more of an indictment on what Kay and Lorenz said than anything else.
As for ARod being a shell of his former self, you would have to think that he's not delusional and knows he's not the hitter that he once was, but can still put up decent numbers. I just wonder if he attributes his decline to past steroid use, age, or a combination of the two. I also don't think that tonight's move will affect him in a negative way in the future. He seems to have handled it well tonight, and if it did bother him, it might give him some incentive to show that he's not through, and have a good year. He seems to take a lot of pride in his performance.
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10-10-12 11:30 PM #1084
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10-10-12 11:35 PM #1085
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I love the way he handled himself in his postgame interview.
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10-10-12 11:37 PM #1086
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He had that tight-lipped "I wish I could kill you instead of answering your stupid question" smile that he often displays in post-game interviews. He wasn't 100% relaxed to me, but I don't think that's about much other than the press being the press.
The more honest assessment of what he might be thinking / feeling probably comes from his immediate reaction to the home run. He was among the first and loudest guys cheering in that dugout. I believe he's completely sincere in being happy for his teammate and being concerned only about the team winning.
But I also think it hurts. How could it not?"Baseball is about hope, not confidence." -- rajah
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10-11-12 12:01 AM #1087
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Oh yea it hurts...but only cause he wished he could have been that guy to be counted on to get things done in a big spot. I truly believe Arod had no problem with Girardi pinch hitting for him...why? Cause Arod is no dummy and he wanted no piece of going to bat in the ninth down a run to just do what he has done this whole series...strike out. It would have just been torture throwing him out there and if Girardi hated him more than he wanted to win he might have done it. Arod is happy that Ibanez got in there and lifted us because everyone is happy...except the media..they smell blood in the water and will make his life hell if he doesn't start hitting.
"Being the captain of the team, he always is there for us, and I appreciate that. He's my friend, my teammate and I love him." ~ Mariano Rivera about Derek Jeter.
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10-11-12 12:07 AM #1088
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10-11-12 12:20 AM #1089
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I hate how this seems to be retroactively justifying what Torre did which was completely different. Torre moved an in-prime A-Rod down in the lineup because he was having a cold streak. It was a move that could have only a small benefit for the team and was sure to cause big headlines. It was a treatment Torre didn't confer on other hitters who went through cold streaks and we now know that Torre bought into the idea that A-Rod wasn't clutch.
A-Rod is later in his career. He has been dinged up physically and dinged up in the media. He was the starter in the game in a prime spot in the lineup but he got taken out to mix and match L/R. This is such a different situation and with the outcome being what it is I don't see anyone leaving with too bad a taste in their mouths.
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10-11-12 12:21 AM #1090
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I don't think he welcomed it...but I don't think he was upset. Wanting to come through and being able to come through are different things. Prior evidence from the last few games says chances are he wasn't going to get it done...of course anything is possible in baseball so we will never know. What we do know is Ibanez did get it done so it was the right move.
"Being the captain of the team, he always is there for us, and I appreciate that. He's my friend, my teammate and I love him." ~ Mariano Rivera about Derek Jeter.
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10-11-12 12:43 AM #1091
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10-11-12 01:36 AM #1092
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10-11-12 02:04 AM #1093
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you are your own happiness
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10-11-12 02:07 AM #1094
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10-11-12 05:17 AM #1095
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Our 29 million dollar/year man pinch hit for in the playoffs..maybe he can defer some of that money to Raul for this year.
It'll be sad to watch how mediocre A-Rod will become in the years to come...I say let him get back on the clear and let's see Barry Bonds Part II
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10-11-12 06:20 AM #1096
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"Stay thirsty, my friends"
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10-11-12 06:25 AM #1097
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A-Rod has been nothing shorty of horrible this postseason, but man people are some some ridiculous crap in this thread...
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10-11-12 06:40 AM #1098
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He did handle it well, both in how fast he congratulated Ibanez and everything he said after the game.
That said...for the first time I think that Arod somehow leaving before his contract is over is more than a pipe dream. This is going to have huge lon ramifcations well beyond today...
ARod is now and forevermore officially 'in play' for girardi or any other manager to pinch hit for, platoon and bench, regardless of the magnitude of the moment...or perhaps BECAUSE of the magnitude of the moment.
Even if he came out tonight and had a 4 for 4 night with extra base hits...he's no longer untouchable.
And i don't see any reason to think ARod is going to be able to handle this long term. He never forgave Torre for hitting him 8th....i just don't think it's in his dna to accept being pinch hit for in the 9th inning of a playoff game. I know his relationship with girardi is much better than his was with torre's (or so they say), but ARod, unless he is suddenly evolving as a person, is not going to be able to manage this.
I don't know how it happens, but i don't see how he stays here for another five years...maybe it's a negotiated settlement, or the Yankees send $50 million to the Marlins to take him or something, but I now believe Jeter will be here beyond ARod.
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10-11-12 07:51 AM #1099
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10-11-12 08:00 AM #1100
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really hope ARod plays tonite and has some decent AB's. He'll turn it around
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