Posted by MikeT23 on 2/13/2014 9:58:00 AM (view original):
Posted by seamar_116 on 2/13/2014 8:34:00 AM (view original):
nope...ARods a total douche...but when he came to the Yankees he was a better SS. A true HOFer would have done what was best for the team.
So ignore long-term effects of what you're doing?
Play A-Rod at SS for a couple of seasons and move Jeter to 3B. Then, in 2007 when A-Rod is no longer mobile enough to play SS, move them back.
Do you realize how dumb that is? A-Rod, quite frankly, did not have a SS body(think Cal Ripken). Everyone knew he'd grow out of the position in his early 30s.
It's not just about the position thing. ARod was chastised hard by the media, fans and even his own teammates in NY. There was a big clubhouse controversy. All it would have taken was for "The Captain" to say "Guys, he's a Yankee, he's our teammate, now regardless of how you feel, STFU and support him."
But he didn't. He sat back and quietly watched ARod get picked apart. I still remember a time when a ball was popped up to third. ARod was camped under it the whole way, but Jeter kept drifting over and drifting over and finally called it, then bumped into ARod and the ball dropped. It was ARod's all the way and Jeter effed it up. But after the play, Jeter just stood there on the field blatantly glaring at ARod and the crowd gave ARod ****. Classy, my ***.
You want to see a classy player, look at Rivera last year. Even fans who hate the Yankees could not find a bad thing to say about him. Jeter is not even in the same galaxy as Mo when it comes to class.
2/13/2014 10:41 PM (edited)