A-Rod really wanted to come here

[kenmeister]

https://www.boston.com/sports/sports-news/2018/12/05/alex-rodriguez-red-sox-trade-2003-yankees.

 

“I think the game felt it, I know I felt it,” Rodriguez said of the disappointment at not going to Boston. “I was saddened by it. I went out one night, there’s this place called Life, and I just got toasted drunk that night. I threw up, I was so bummed. Anyways, I went back home and just dusted off and said let’s go, got to go play ball. And of course the Yankee thing happened. And I think because of that, when I go to Fenway for the first time as a Yankee, I mean, come on. Nothing could be meaner or more cruel. I think that’s where the emotions started.”

 

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Now I feel bad. I've always enjoyed villainizing A-Rod all of these years.

 

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS786US786&biw=1920&bih=1009&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=5fQHXJCvK8e4gge9i52YBQ&q=alex+rodriguez+slap+play+handbag&oq=alex+rodriguez+slap+play+handbag&gs_l=img.3...15584.16358..16454...0.0..0.50.380.8......1....1..gws-wiz-img.UEyMDupg3n4#imgrc=C1M4t5jnVg78DM:

[YastrzemskI]

That would have been interesting.

[Kimmi]

All I can say is thank goodness it never happened.

[StephenCurry30]

ive actually grown to like a-rod since he's retired, he seems like a good dude when he's on espn broadcasts, fox, etc and he's surprisingly been good in the tv show shark tank

[Bellhorn04]

I think he might best be described as a complicated guy.

[cp176]

I think he might best be described as a complicated guy.

 

I think that you are right on with this one. Plus whatever would have happened to us if A-Rod and Varitek etc. etc. hadn't gotten it on on the fateful day? As much as I really didn't like him when he played, if he could have played clean I would have taken him over 2 Machados.

[S5Dewey]

I think that you are right on with this one. Plus whatever would have happened to us if A-Rod and Varitek etc. etc. hadn't gotten it on on the fateful day? As much as I really didn't like him when he played, if he could have played clean I would have taken him over 2 Machados.

That gets the award for the lowest bar of the year!

[Kimmi]

I think he might best be described as a complicated guy.

 

I have always thought of ARod as a guy who is very lonely, or insecure, or lacks self confidence, or something along those lines, despite his talent, fame, and wealth.

[Bellhorn04]

I have always thought of ARod as a guy who is very lonely, or insecure, or lacks self confidence, or something along those lines, despite his talent, fame, and wealth.

 

Very insecure, I think.

[S5Dewey]

I have always thought of ARod as a guy who is very lonely, or insecure, or lacks self confidence, or something along those lines, despite his talent, fame, and wealth.

 

You're a lot softer on him than I am. I see him as being so full of himself that he doesn't realize that he's a caricature of a self-absorbed, blowhard, pathological lying cheater.

[Kimmi]

You're a lot softer on him than I am. I see him as being so full of himself that he doesn't realize that he's a caricature of a self-absorbed, blowhard, pathological lying cheater.

 

You might be right. Something about him just says to me that he lacks self confidence or self worth.

[Northern Star]

You might be right. Something about him just says to me that he lacks self confidence or self worth.

 

I think you're both right. Self-esteem issues and lack of insight. I think we dodged a bullet on this one.