They'd love to play by these classic heads I win tails you lose with A-Rod. They had presumed he'd suck this year so they could have sat back and gloated.
Instead he's better than anyone could have imagined and so now of course he must be cheating though there is no shred of evidence and he is the most tested man in America.
But then this is the kind of knots people who root for the failure of A-Rod have to tie themselves up in.
Coming in to this season my hope was maybe he could hit 20 hrs for the year. Instead, he's hit more than that in half the year. So the A-Rod haters can't just tip their hats to him. No, they have to start the baseless speculation that he's cheated. The NY Post with its history of cheap and tawdry front pages-they probably agree with Trump's lawyers that a woman can't be raped by her husband.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-and-his-lawyer-michael.html?showComment=1438096088617#c1627321084808652435
However, you'll have to excuse me if this holds no water in my eyes. Unless they can prove something, speculation is cheap.
As I've said all year, A-Rod is an analogy for the 2015 Yankees who came into this year with as low a bar of expectations as the great slugger himself. The team of course is always reviled and A-Rod just gives Yankee haters another excuse.
As the reason for their hatred is the success of the Yanks the haters have a lot to hate about now as the Bombers with last night's 6-2 win over Texas-helped with A-Rod's 24th of the year-are now a full 7 games up in the AL Least.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/standings/
However, even if you call the East the Least, the Yankees aren't the Least, as their 56-42 record puts them 14 games over .500 with the second best record in the AL and the fifth best in the Majors.
"Hate him all you want — and, boy, some of you do — but Alex Rodriguez continues to make history in his surprising comeback season with the New York Yankees. As you know, he passed Willie Mays on the all-time home run list, joined the 3,000 hit club and took another step up the all-time RBI list"
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/a-rod-homers-on-his-40th-birthday--joins-an-exclusive-club-035800955.html
"The over-the-fence birthday present to himself was A-Rod's 24th homer of the year. Only eight players in MLB have more this season, and they're a lot younger than 40. The Yankees, meanwhile, are in first place in the AL East by an increasingly comfortable margin. It's now seven games."
Happy birthday, A-Rod. This has been quite a couple of days.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-rod-shows-life-begins-at-40.html
A-Rod's message to haters will make them even madder-he says he's clean and happy.
"Before and after celebrating a milestone birthday by doing what only three others in baseball history have done, Alex Rodriguez insisted his system is devoid of PEDs."
“I was hoping to get better and that happened. But it also is a nice reminder to me if you play clean and work hard that good things will happen,’’ Rodriguez said of his impressive bounce-back season before helping the Yankees to a 6-2 win over the Rangers Monday night in front of 33,691 at a sweltering Global Life Park, where fans endured a game-time temperature of 97 degrees.
"After becoming the fourth player in baseball history to homer as a teenager and as a 40-year-old, which Rodriguez became Monday, the designated hitter stayed with the theme when asked about people not believing he isn’t getting chemical help."
“I can’t tell what people are thinking, but I am [clean],’’ Rodriguez said. “And I am happy about it.’’
http://nypost.com/2015/07/27/a-rod-celebrates-birthday-with-a-bash-as-yankees-cruise/
P.S. To be sure, my radical position on steroids-much less HGH which if A-Rod were taking something would be the most likely-is that they should be legal. As I said after A-Rod's 3 hrs:
"It's still amazing to me that time when in 2006 in Houston Clemens actually pitched to his son in batting practice. To me that's just a tremendous moment in human history."
"Zarathustra said that Man is something that must be overcome."
"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? "
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/nietzsche_philosophy.html
"But the boobears don't think that old age should be overcome. No they like old age as it's part of the 'natural order of things.'"
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-rod-shows-life-begins-at-40.html
Instead he's better than anyone could have imagined and so now of course he must be cheating though there is no shred of evidence and he is the most tested man in America.
But then this is the kind of knots people who root for the failure of A-Rod have to tie themselves up in.
Coming in to this season my hope was maybe he could hit 20 hrs for the year. Instead, he's hit more than that in half the year. So the A-Rod haters can't just tip their hats to him. No, they have to start the baseless speculation that he's cheated. The NY Post with its history of cheap and tawdry front pages-they probably agree with Trump's lawyers that a woman can't be raped by her husband.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-and-his-lawyer-michael.html?showComment=1438096088617#c1627321084808652435
However, you'll have to excuse me if this holds no water in my eyes. Unless they can prove something, speculation is cheap.
As I've said all year, A-Rod is an analogy for the 2015 Yankees who came into this year with as low a bar of expectations as the great slugger himself. The team of course is always reviled and A-Rod just gives Yankee haters another excuse.
As the reason for their hatred is the success of the Yanks the haters have a lot to hate about now as the Bombers with last night's 6-2 win over Texas-helped with A-Rod's 24th of the year-are now a full 7 games up in the AL Least.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/standings/
However, even if you call the East the Least, the Yankees aren't the Least, as their 56-42 record puts them 14 games over .500 with the second best record in the AL and the fifth best in the Majors.
"Hate him all you want — and, boy, some of you do — but Alex Rodriguez continues to make history in his surprising comeback season with the New York Yankees. As you know, he passed Willie Mays on the all-time home run list, joined the 3,000 hit club and took another step up the all-time RBI list"
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/a-rod-homers-on-his-40th-birthday--joins-an-exclusive-club-035800955.html
"The over-the-fence birthday present to himself was A-Rod's 24th homer of the year. Only eight players in MLB have more this season, and they're a lot younger than 40. The Yankees, meanwhile, are in first place in the AL East by an increasingly comfortable margin. It's now seven games."
Happy birthday, A-Rod. This has been quite a couple of days.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-rod-shows-life-begins-at-40.html
A-Rod's message to haters will make them even madder-he says he's clean and happy.
"Before and after celebrating a milestone birthday by doing what only three others in baseball history have done, Alex Rodriguez insisted his system is devoid of PEDs."
“I was hoping to get better and that happened. But it also is a nice reminder to me if you play clean and work hard that good things will happen,’’ Rodriguez said of his impressive bounce-back season before helping the Yankees to a 6-2 win over the Rangers Monday night in front of 33,691 at a sweltering Global Life Park, where fans endured a game-time temperature of 97 degrees.
"After becoming the fourth player in baseball history to homer as a teenager and as a 40-year-old, which Rodriguez became Monday, the designated hitter stayed with the theme when asked about people not believing he isn’t getting chemical help."
“I can’t tell what people are thinking, but I am [clean],’’ Rodriguez said. “And I am happy about it.’’
http://nypost.com/2015/07/27/a-rod-celebrates-birthday-with-a-bash-as-yankees-cruise/
P.S. To be sure, my radical position on steroids-much less HGH which if A-Rod were taking something would be the most likely-is that they should be legal. As I said after A-Rod's 3 hrs:
"It's still amazing to me that time when in 2006 in Houston Clemens actually pitched to his son in batting practice. To me that's just a tremendous moment in human history."
"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? "
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/nietzsche_philosophy.html
"But the boobears don't think that old age should be overcome. No they like old age as it's part of the 'natural order of things.'"
"To me A-Rod and Clemens have done a lot to overcome man whereas their critics do the opposite."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-rod-shows-life-begins-at-40.html
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