A Tale of Two Twitties - pt. 2

Twit #2

Alex Rodriguez

Does anybody really like this guy? Honestly, how many reasonable baseball fans would say A-Rod is their favorite player? None. Now the question is: why?

Because A-Rod’s biggest problem is that he wants to be liked too much. He’ll do anything to make you like him, short of giving you part of his paycheck or performing up to par in October.

Don’t like me being the best baseball player in the world? That’s okay, I’ll fail miserably at false humility.

Don’t like me making more money than the entire payroll of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays? Okay. How about I do a national campaign complete with interviews and ads demonstrating how I only play for "the love" of the game?

Every sportswriter in the world writing about me duffing my way through another post-season? For the love of chocolate, why won’t every they just like me like they like that Big Poppi guy from Boston?

But in a recent turn of events, A-Rod again listened to his agent “The Pittbull,” Scott Boras and declined the option on final three years of his stupidly huge contract with the Yankees. Bad move, because that money included the Texas Rangers picking up more that $7 million a year of A-Rod’s paycheck. Which means that the Yanks would have to give A-Rod two raises for the price of one. Plus these two media geniuses decided to launch their press conference in the middle of the World Series.

Now who can dislike a guy like that? Have a bit of trouble being out of the spotlight, Alex?

So what did A-Rod do last next? Apparently, he went around his own agent and renegotiated his 10-year / $252 million dollar ridiculous-money deal into a 10-year $275 million dollar even-more-freakin’-ridiculous-money deal.

I can’t decide if I want Twit #2 to break Twit #1’s all-time home run record or not, though barring injury, he no doubt will. And that’s part of what this deal was about. If A-Rod goes to the Dodgers for the next few years, maybe he doesn’t get stupidly huge money, and he begins to look like even more like the money grubbing vagabond that he is. Then after the Dodgers he finishes up icing the HR record with the Mets or someone, and all of a sudden at the end of his career, A-Rod’s has no team to really call home. He goes into the Hall of Fame as what?

No, A-Rod's not gonna let that happen.

A-Rod needs the Yankees to cement his legacy as much as the Yankees need A-Rod to break the HR record wearing pinstripes.