Why is it that A-Rod is such a dominant player yet is taking so much crap on every sports show there is about having a losing attitude, being a "cancer", and how you cant win a championship with ARod? I hear some say, "look what happened in Texas, 3 years of great numbers, three years in last place" Was it ARods fault they were in last? Is it ARods fault that the yankees didnt win the world series? The yankees wouldnt have made the playoffs without him. I would LOVE to have ARod on my team (wont happen being a Reds fan... but anyways). How can a guy with his type of numbers keep a team from winning? i do not see the "bad attitude" that people talk about!
2007-11-02 07:51:02 · 11 answers · asked by Adam B 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
It's mostly because people are jealous of his status. They resent the fact that someone can turn down a contract for $250 million dollars. Therefore a lot of people feel a need to villify him.
The Yankees and their fans treated him like crap, and I think it will backfire on them this year. As far as A-Rod, he approaches baseball as a business, which is what professional sports is. Because he wants to get what he feels he is worth people call him greedy. The reality is if anyone here was in his spot they would be the same way.
People also say his postseason numbers aren't good. It's just a statistical blip. Before last year everyone said Peyton Manning's postseason numbers weren't good and that he sucks in the postseason. It's all circumstantial. Most people just repeat what they hear on Sportscenter and think they know what they are talking about.
2007-11-02 08:39:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jukeboxster 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
He becomes your entire team. He's not so much as a clubhouse cancer as he IS the clubhouse.
A Rod goes 1-4; they ask Jeter how he felt about A Rod going 1-4 that day. It wears down your team, and clearly he is not interested on being on a winning team. He's interested in money, which is his right and fine, but I want a guy on my ball club that wants to be on a winner first, then get paid.
And you're wrong, they would have made the playoffs without him, they made the playoffs before him, and they'll make the playoffs after him. 150 RBIs is easily replacable with two quality guys, now that he's gone we'll replace him with more timely hitting and better defense and more pitching. If you're pitching is good, you don't need tons of RBI guys, Yanks proved that in the 90's. You just need quality team guys that get outs behind their pitcher and get on base.
A Rod is a great player, no one should question that, but he's not worth the soul of you team, and he's not worth what you might pay three quality guys with the same money.
:::edit::: you can tell he's not a good guy for your team when he's the best plpayer in the game and the three teams he's been on don't even want him. The yankees smartest move this offseason is NOT bringing him back at any cost.
:::EDIT 2::: look how the reds sold their soul for Griffey Jr who was the next coming of Babe Ruth at the time. How'd that turn out. A baseball team is 25 guys, not 24 and 1, the F#@!in BoSox proved that this year and the Yanks proved that in the 90's. Look how SF sold their soul for Bonds. Any rings?
2007-11-02 09:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by Incognito 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"look what happened in Texas, 3 years of great numbers, three years in last place" Was it ARods fault they were in last?
Yes, it was Arod's fault, well partially anyway.
Arod signed this huge contract. What did he expect, they were going to pay him $25 mil a year, raising their salary to $80 or $90 mil, then spend another $50 on supporting players?
If Arod wanted to be resposible for winning, he could have signed a contract thats much less.
Now, some will say "hey, if someone wanted to pay you that much for your job you would take it"
Would I? On the surface, you think yes. But, I work in a group of 4 and if they said they would raise my salary to $1 mil a year, but I would have to do the work of all 4 people and they would be fired, I wouldn't do it.
So, it's Arod and his salary fault that he didn't win in Texas.
But what about NY?
That's a combination of things, you have the cheap 'knocking the ball out of the glove' and the 'mine' to contribute.
I certainly put a lot of the problems on the fans themselves. I am not sure what they expect when you boo your own player, but rarely do they think, oh, they are booing me, I must do better'
And you say you would like him in Cincy. Would you, really?
What if he wanted $40 mil a year.
What would that do to your ticket prices, what if he was the only top dog and your team dropped to the bottom (oh, too late). What if concessions went up? local advertising meant that the cost of goods went up too?
Is that all worth it?
2007-11-02 08:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by brettj666 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I second what Yankees23 said. Arod tends to choke in the postseason, which needless to say, counts for a lot.
I don't care what uniform he wears, the guy drives me insane. As a Sox fan, I don't like the Yankees, but I do respect them. They're a great team, and I admire the talent of most of their players. But Arod is an exception.
2007-11-02 08:03:06 · answer #4 · answered by SoBox 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They mostly get on his case for not producing enough in the playoffs. No one can argue that he is a great player in the regular season, or the fact that he played a huge role in the Yankees making the post season this year. However, he is a different player in the post season. He lets Scott Boras get into his head thinking that he is worth $30 million a year, even though his postseason numbers aren't that good. I don't think that he is a loser, he just has to produce in the playoffs. However, as far as him leaving goes, if he doesn't want to be here, leave. As long as he lets Boras tell him what to do, and if he continues to falter in the playoffs, he will not be a part of a Championship team.
2007-11-02 07:58:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
A-Rod sets a very bad precedent for baseball. No one is worth that kind of money, I don't care who you are. Greed and stupidity of that kind is what has caused baseball to be the way it is today....all about money, making more so they can pay more so they can get more advertising so they can put ticket prices up so they can make more money. guess what, it wasn't always like this!!! That's why you see just a couple of teams winning all the time because they are in major advertising markets while your average ball club can't compete, which is a shame. I know that's what I mean when I call him a loser. Or a narcissist.
2007-11-02 09:08:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
With as much money as he makes you expect him to win you championships. With Texas, he took up a lot of their payroll, he had to share at least some of the blame. In NY, he came up so small every year in the playoffs, that, in my opinion, he did not deserve to be paid what he was making. His whining about Jeter did not help. Announcing that he was opting out of his contract during the world series. He is just looking for a paycheck. If KC or Tampa Bay had enough money to pay him, he would probably go there.
2007-11-02 08:51:28 · answer #7 · answered by Carnac 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The real point is, simply put, that no matter what great numbers he has, he sucks when it counts, and that makes everything suck. He's all about flash & flare, and then when the team he plays for needs him to put his considerable money where his mouth is, he wimps out & vanishes instead. So, simply put, he Sucks.
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2007-11-02 09:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by rockiebattles411 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because alex rodriguez CARES. thats why people give him crap. He takes them in.
2007-11-02 08:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by jasonpickles 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
whos arod do u maen adney rodkins?
2007-11-02 07:54:45 · answer #10 · answered by ♣[[suzanne farrah]]♣ 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋