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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Q: What's the "A" in "A-Rod" stand for?
A: "April."
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Take it away,
Ken Tremendous and the FJM crew:
Sigh.
Just to short-circuit this whole argument:
Alex Rodriguez, last three years: 1778+ AB, .945 OPS. In September: 291 AB, .995 OPS.
And: drum-roll, please...
This September: .333/.419/.730/1.149.
I am not making this up, people. This idiot is claiming that Alex Rodriguez's bat has gone cold, in a month where he has a ****ing .730 SLG and an OPS of 1.149, with 8 HR in 63 AB.
His bat has gone cold. He has an OPS of 1.149.
Justify this, New York Post. I will give you a billion dollars if you can justify this claim.
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I have been Groundhog Day-ing this exact article all effing year, and allow me to say, here, in late September: I hope -- I pray -- that ARod fails miserably in the playoffs, because I dislike his team. And I hope that Yankee Stadium boos him mercilessly, because I want him to leave that team, because he is the best hitter in baseball. I am also interested in what happens if he has a repeat of the 2004 ALCS, where he goes like 8-31 or something...not great, not terrible. Because I think what would happen is: people would savage him anyway. In fact, if he goes 15-20 in the ALDS and the Yankees lose, I think the media would still write that he "still hasn't led his team to victory," and I would find that immensely pleasurable.
Annnd just for completeness' sake,
here's a postscript.