A-ROD’S BACK

Well, as the Yankees are about to (finally) begin their first spring training game, I feel obligated to at least wrap up the latest saga regarding A-Rod.  Almost all Yankees’ fans (and almost all baseball fans, for that matter) are sick and tired of hearing or reading about A-Rod.  For that reason, I’ve been limiting my articles about him and even hesitated to write this one!

We all know by now that on February 17, 2015, A-Rod presented his own handwritten apology which was just another apology on top of another apology.  Whether he handwrote it, skywrote it, or personally hung from the rungs of a helicopter’s ladder shouting it out with a megaphone, there would be no dignity nor any honesty believed by most.  His reputation is so damaged after he magnified his supposed false accusations, which all later proved to be true by his own admission!!

As a Yankees’ fan, I wish we didn’t have to deal with all of this.  I still blame Hank Steinbrenner for overreacting and re-signing A-Rod back in December, 2007.  Yes, we won a championship 2 years later, but A-Rod (who had a very good series) was still unwanted by the NYY fans prior to the re-signing and after the re-signing.  He just acts so cocky with his expressed perked lips during negative results (such as when he strikes out) that his character is very unacceptable to any experienced baseball fan!  Of course the press loves him because his magnitude is even larger than Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Madonna, or Justin Bieber.

Now, in the 2015 season, we may have to watch him on the field or in the dugout game-after-game.  It’s mean and selfish, but I think we all (except mainly the media) hope he just goes away!  That can happen if:

- His physical condition is deemed too poor to physically play (perhaps because of his failing recovering hips from the surgeries he had) - the Yankees would then get to claim insurance and only pay 15% of the remaining $61 million/3 years

- He is found, once again, to be cheating with some form of enhancements

- The Yankees just outright release him because his hitting is too ineffective or they find him to be a virus on the team

- The Yankees negotiate a buyout and then remove him from their roster

(In the last 2 scenarios, another team, such as one that is hungry for publicity, could always sign A-Rod, while the Yankees continue to pay his enormous remaining contract or A-Rod can just hang out and enjoy a very well-paid vacation.)

If any of the aforementioned conditions happen to terminate A-Rod’s presence in a Yankees’ uniform in the very near future, many Yankees’ fans (including me) would rejoice.  If he, instead, contributes decently then we’ll have to tolerate him, as we each wonder what he’s on that is undetectable to the tests MLB has implemented.