By February 16, he was a Yankee.
In promoting A-Rod, Texas thought it was solving a public relations problem. They had dealt him to Boston, where he would have taken a cut in his monstrous salary, to which he agreed.
But the Players' Union vetoed the very idea of anyone taking a mid-contract cut, ever. So after a big publicity splash, he was back in Texas, a plainly unwanted player on a last-place team he plainly didn't want. This called for drastic, insincere action.
At the press conference announcing his captaincy, where everyone weirdly wore tuxedos (and pictures from which have apparently been scrubbed from the internet), A-Rod reassuringly said, “I definitely think I’m going to be here for a long time. I’m probably pretty sure it will work out for the best.”
Posts
8 comments:
Twenty years ago? Wow. I remember thinking, "With A-Rod, we will win the next 7 World Series."
I was forgetting about one little thing. And that thing was called...pitching.
In what's left of the free-agent market...
—I say Monty over Snell.
—I say Snell over nothing.
—I say Monty AND Snell, best of all, so we can push someone back to the "super-charged" bullpen.
—I say that a really smart GM would sign Bellinger, whose father save us from what would have been a horrible loss to the Mets, and flip Verdugo to some other team for a couple of terrific but overlooked relievers.
Now all we need in THAT equation is a really smart GM...uh-oh.
Boone ACTUALLY said this on Joel Sherman and John Heyman podcast today…“We’re really excited about the signing of Cody Poteet, we think there’s a lot potentially in there from a depth standpoint. And obviously bringing Luke Weaver back…”. I give up, time to start really picking that NL team to root for.
My favorite NL will remain, as always, Not Dodgers. Second favorite: Not Giants.
Hoss,
You forget to mention the mutts.
Otherwise, excellent choices.
I'm gonna root for the Savannah Bananas
"I’m probably pretty sure..." said A-Rod.
I'm probably pretty sure he never gets into the Hall.
Acrilly, I heard part of Boone on WFAN the other day. The guy's all excited about the mess Cashamn is handing him this year.
Boooooone is like the father of a new born: delighted that he'll be shoveling baby poop for the foreseeable future.
We got trouble, right here in River City.
And that starts with “T” which rhymes with “B” and that stands for boone!
Post a Comment