im not you
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I'm forever hearing about Alex Rodriquez in negative fashion when talked about by baseball fans. What has he done to attract such hatred?
I don't follow baseball THAT closely, so tell me why A-Rod is so hated?
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- Feb 12, 2005
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He's a douche bag.
- Jun 10, 2004
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^ lol, exactly what I came in here to say.
Great baseball player, tho.
Great baseball player, tho.
DeadsetAce
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same reason a lot of people hate every great player....
- Jul 14, 2003
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How much time do you have?
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Couple of more reasons:
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he faces the same problem that Kobe faces. it's as if everything that he does is contrived.
& he's been perceived as a terrible postseason player.
then he came out talking about Derek Jeter negatively & !$*+, while they were good friends, and when he was in TX.
& he's been perceived as a terrible postseason player.
then he came out talking about Derek Jeter negatively & !$*+, while they were good friends, and when he was in TX.
im not you
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In December 2007, Rodriguez and the Yankees agreed to a 10 year, $275 million contract. This contract was the richest contract in baseball history (breaking his previous record of $252 million).[sup][[/sup]
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I'd tell you, but I'm at work and I don't have that much time.
- Jun 10, 2004
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he's a cheating, lying, over-paid bush-leaguer...who doubles as a choke artist and part-time walking identiy crisis.
- Dec 17, 2003
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That about sums it up.
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But forreal he does come off as a douche. But I cant argue how good of a player he is. Thank god he falls off the face of the earth come October tho.
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jealousy
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This pretty much sums it up:
[h1]Alex Rodriguez[/h1]
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed A-Rod, is a Dominican-American professional baseball player and a %+**.
While Alex Rodriguez is generally considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time, it should be noted that, in this sport, even a person in this sort of physical condition can be considered an all-star.
Rodriguez is also the 6th highest paid athlete in the world, taking in $35 million dollars in 2008, an important fact to remember should anything below sound harsh.
In early 2009, Rodriguez finally admitted that he had used performance enhancing drugs, solidifying his position in the %+** baseball hall of fame alongside Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.
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http:// [h2]Early life[/h2]
Rodriguez grew up in New York, the Dominican Republic, and Miami. One of his favorite players was Dale Murphy, who interestingly was one of the squeaky cleanest players ever and runs the IWontCheat foundation against steroid use.
Originally, he was recruited for football by the University of Miami, the football program ranked first nationally in high-profile eventual criminals, though Rodriguez decided to forego college and begin his professional career.
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http:// [h2]Professional career[/h2]
Rodriguez entered the Major Leagues at the age of 18, though, fittingly, this first season was cut short by the greatest display of egotism and selfishness in modern sports: the 1994 Baseball Strike. His first career base hit came in Fenway park, which, based on the renowned decorum of the audience in question, means this was most likely his first instance of being referred to as a %+** in public.
He went on to play five seasons in Seattle until he became a free agent and, in a fashion that would continue for the rest of his career, departed the team to sign the most expensive contract in sports history. The Rangers, sorely in need of a huge %+** since managing general partner George W. Bush departed the organization several years earlier, signed Rodriguez after struggling the previous season.
Over the next three seasons, Rodriguez proved to be outstandingly consistent, leading the team to last place in the division each year. Interestingly, there appeared to be a direct relationship between his increasing statistics and the team's increasing losses each season, culminating in a 2003 MVP award for Rodriguez and one of the worst records in the American League for the Rangers.
At this point, the Rangers realized it would be more prudent to pay for an entire competent team than to hang on to the most expensive player in baseball whom everyone hated. In trading him, the Rangers helped fulfill the inevitability of Rodriguez joining the premier %+** franchise in professional athletics: the New York Yankees.
The following season, the Rangers would post their first winning record in 5 years.
In joining the Yankees, Rodriguez would have the opportunity to unite a %+** Holy Trinity of professional sports: George Steinbrenner, Alex Rodriguez, and the cultural phenomenon that resulted in Fred Durst wearing a red Yankees hat.
It also gave Rodriguez the opportunity to fulfill the meathead-overachiever %+** fantasy of moving to Manhattan to be paid an absurd amount of undeserved money for doing a sub par job. (For more, see: this.) The deal was brokered by %+**-agent Scott Boras, meaning that the contract negotiations with Steinbrenner were the baseball fan's equivalent of that room they tried to blow up in Valkyrie.
In the six years prior to his arrival, the Yankees missed the World Series only once. Since that time, they have only made it to the American League Championship Series once.
At the end of the 2007 season, Rodriguez decided to opt out of his contract, because $252 million over 10 years was really such an insult. While normally these type of negotiations occur behind closed doors like most business conducted among adults, Alex Rodriguez is only nominally an adult and, desperately seeking attention, announced it during game four of the Red Sox sweep of the Rockies in the World Series. The Yankees managed to keep Rodriguez by signing another contract, but this time for $275 million, which, if the dollar holds up, is an amount that will get you pretty far in a Canadian strip club.
In 2008, the Yankees failed to make the playoffs for the first time in 4 seasons. Meanwhile the Tampa Bay Rays were able to win the League Championship. Statisticians and Met fans point out that Rodriguez's salary that season was significantly more than half of what the entire Tampa Bay team earned for the year. This uselessly extravagant spending should come as no surprise, however, considering that the Tampa Bay Rays mascot looks like this and the New York Yankees mascot looks like this.
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http:// [h2]Steroid use[/h2]
For a number of years, suspicions had arisen about Rodriguez's alleged use, though the only questionable substances he was confirmed to have used during that period were bottle service vodka tonics at douchey nightclubs in lower Manhattan.
Specifically, a number of charges were leveled by Jose Canseco, Rodriguez's former teammate on the Texas Rangers "Juice Dream Team" that also included Pudge Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, and Juan González.
In February 2009, Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, hormones, and steroids while playing for the Texas Rangers. The following week, Rodriguez admitted the steroid use to ESPN.
Interestingly, in 2007, Rodriguez firmly told Katie Couric that he'd never taken any performance enhancing drugs, hormones, or steroids, making him the second well-known prima donna to have a Katie Couric interview bite them in the @*!.
In 2009, Rodriguez publicly went on to explain, "I was young, I was stupid, I was naive." At a later press conference, he added, "In some ways I wish I went to college and got an opportunity to grow up at my own pace. You know, I guess when you're young and stupid, you're young and stupid and I'm very guilty for both of those."
It is presently unclear the precise extent to which Rodriguez believes we are idiots. And also unable to do basic arithmetic. To aide in the comprehension of Rodriguez's apology, scientists have engineered this complex formula:
33 current years of age - 6 years ago = 27 years old + being A-Rod = insulting our %!%#!@% intelligence
That's right. When Rodriguez was "young and stupid," he was 27 years old, an age that in modern culture is considered well beyond the period one can write off youthful indiscretions. Especially in the Dominican Republic where, by 27, he would be a grandfather.
Although Rodriguez arguing he was "young" remains suspect, the second claim stands undisputed.
Sadly, had Rodriguez been able to attend college, he could have finally enrolled in "Survey of Not Cheating," which is the only way one could have learned to avoid this mistake.
Rodriguez's steroid use was facilitated by a "cousin" whom he initially refused to name, a shrewd tactic considering that there are probably 25,000 people named Rodriguez in Miami that a Dominican guy could consider his "cousin." Shockingly, the cousin was revealed to be a man named Yuri Sucart. Again, Rodriguez must have believed that the cousin's identity would never be found out when that cousin's name is certainly the least Hispanic name anyone has ever heard.
If the homoerotic imagery of having a job standing around in tight pants swinging a giant wooden pole weren't complete enough, Rodriguez confessed he took steroids due to "an enormous amount of pressure to perform."
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http:// [h2]Personal affairs[/h2]
In 2002, Rodriguez married Cynthia Scurtis, whom, in keeping with the meathead theme, he met at a gym. Amongst fans, she quickly became known as C-Rod, a nickname that sounds really dirty but is somehow not.
She gave birth to two girls. Both with the middle name Alexander, which is very George Forman-esque (minus the general likeability).
Though financial analysts have been unable to a locate any fiscal stake he might have in the New York Daily News, the rest of Rodriguez's personal life has single-handedly kept the newspaper afloat for the past decade.
It would be difficult and perhaps distasteful to list here all of the women Rodriguez has been connected with, but that seems like a poor excuse not to:
- Monique - Stripper who "specialized in lap dances," which must be the equivalent of claiming to be a "liberal arts major" at stripper community college. The two once reportedly went on a Versace shopping spree.
- Mia - Brazillian maybe-stripper who "gave the best lap dances in town."
- Candace Houlihan - Stripper whom Rodriguez reportedly had a "two-night stand" with.
- Joslyn Morse - Former Scores stripper (stripper Harvard) whom Rodriguez was famously photographed with at a Toronto strip club.
Not to be out-trashed, Mrs. Rodriguez, alongside her child, was eventually seen wearing a t-shirt in Yankee stadium simply stating: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2923254 href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2923254">"F**K YOU." The shirt was purchased at a boutique for women whose husbands cheat on them with celebrities who've published photobooks of their genitals.
- Madonna - Apparently not content hooking up with mere strippers on the side, Rodriguez went for Olympic Gold. Apparently, he believed the best way to keep a low-profile after being caught with a Scores stripper would be to have an affair with one of the most famous singers in the world. At least Cynthia would no longer have to endure the shame of having her husband parade around with women everyone has seen naked…oh wait.
C-Rod filed for divorce in 2008 and quickly changed her nickname to C-you-later-in-your-giant-house-that-I-now-own-you-cheating-**#**%+.
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http:// [h2]Accomplishments*[/h2]
As a short stop, he set single season records for most runs in a season*, most extra base hits*, most total bases*, and most home runs*. He went on to hit the most home runs by a third baseman in a season* and to become the youngest player to hit 500 home runs*. He is in the top 15 home run hitters of all time*.
He is a 3-time MVP* and a 10-time Silver Slugger*. He is also considered one of the great players of all time* and a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame*. He is also a good father*, role-model*, and Scores customer.
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http:// [h2]Trivia[/h2]
- Rodriguez is known by the nickname "the cooler," for his reputation of sending teams into slumps. This is not to be confused with the film The Cooler which cost only 1/7th of Rodriguez's salary to produce, but, unlike A-rod, was probably still playing in late October.
- Just in case there was a doubt in anyone's mind that he is a %+**, Rodriguez purchased a Benz dealership.
- Ashton Kutcher once Punk'd Rodriguez, though Rodriguez refused to sign the release form and ordered the tapes destroyed. The two were able to settle their differences discussing what it's like to date much older semi-masculine women that everyone has seen naked.
- Rodriguez was to represent the Dominican Republic in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, though on March 5, it was announced that Rodriguez would be out until May due to a cyst on his hip. It is currently unclear if the cyst took any cyst-enhancing drugs and later wrote them off as youthful mistake even though the cyst was 27 at the time.
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So basically he is KObe?
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i think it comes down to a combination of
-leaving the mariners for the 10 yr/252 mill to play for one of the worst teams in baseball
-choking in the playoffs + his texas stint = not a winner reputation
-steriod use
-zero personality
-arguably best player in the game (regular season) always = haters
-this is the biggest one - overall sense of fakeness whenever he interviews. nobody views him as 'real' or 'genuine' hence the a-fraud nickname
to sum up he's a @*$!*#!**
-leaving the mariners for the 10 yr/252 mill to play for one of the worst teams in baseball
-choking in the playoffs + his texas stint = not a winner reputation
-steriod use
-zero personality
-arguably best player in the game (regular season) always = haters
-this is the biggest one - overall sense of fakeness whenever he interviews. nobody views him as 'real' or 'genuine' hence the a-fraud nickname
to sum up he's a @*$!*#!**
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LOL at that fake $!+ wiki page
- Mar 13, 2004
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Kobe is a winner...and people like/respect him outside of LA
where as A-Rod is genuinely disliked outside of the 5 boroughs....
- Aug 5, 2008
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Clearly JD617's post wasn't biased at all
I'm gonna try and give an unbiased reason..
-He could very well end up being the greatest player to ever play the game. He's the highest paid baseball player in history. With all of that comes withHUGE scrutiny.
-You get all that money and don't perform, don't hit 82/191/.630, etc., people will give you crap.
-His post-season resume isn't all that stellar.
-Personal life is always in the headlines.
-Admitted steroid use.
All that said, I love him on the Yankees. I wouldn't want him anywhere else.
I'm gonna try and give an unbiased reason..
-He could very well end up being the greatest player to ever play the game. He's the highest paid baseball player in history. With all of that comes withHUGE scrutiny.
-You get all that money and don't perform, don't hit 82/191/.630, etc., people will give you crap.
-His post-season resume isn't all that stellar.
-Personal life is always in the headlines.
-Admitted steroid use.
All that said, I love him on the Yankees. I wouldn't want him anywhere else.
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Originally Posted by Yoda
Clearly JD617's post wasn't biased at all
I'm gonna try and give an unbiased reason..
-He could very well end up being the greatest player to ever play the game. He's the highest paid baseball player in history. With all of that comes with HUGE scrutiny.
-You get all that money and don't perform, don't hit 82/191/.630, etc., people will give you crap.
-His post-season resume isn't all that stellar.
-Personal life is always in the headlines.
-Admitted steroid use.
All that said, I love him on the Yankees. I wouldn't want him anywhere else.
as long as Albert Pujols stays clean, that distinction is gonna be his to lose as far as going down as the GREATEST player in MLB history.
I don't think you can put A-Rod in that top group anymore because of what he did...that's just my opinion.
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Albert pujols stays clean?
:S Are you naive enough to think that he and any or star in this past decade was actually clean.....it's better for baseball if his positive results arenot shown but hey they already showed us arod and pujols will eventually be next.
Off topic but Albert Pujols is an $$@*$@* himself and i first noticed this when he was *****ing in the 06 playoffs. He performs in postseason but that alonedoesnt explain why he isnt hated.
:S Are you naive enough to think that he and any or star in this past decade was actually clean.....it's better for baseball if his positive results arenot shown but hey they already showed us arod and pujols will eventually be next.
Off topic but Albert Pujols is an $$@*$@* himself and i first noticed this when he was *****ing in the 06 playoffs. He performs in postseason but that alonedoesnt explain why he isnt hated.
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I'll be naive until he's (Pujols) is caught...until then, there's no discussion...just baseless speculation.
How is Pujols an %+%? He's regarded as one of the best guys in baseball both on and off the field....
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You do have a point, but did he break any records (aside from the contract record) while he was on the juice, did he?
Not looking to argue, honestly asking if he did. I'm too lazy to go search it up.
Not looking to argue, honestly asking if he did. I'm too lazy to go search it up.
