Could I have been so wrong about A-Rod?

“Say it aint so Joe”!

"Alex's decision was one based on not knowing what his closer, his catcher and one of his stature pitchers was going to do," Boras said. "He really didn't want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing."

"It's clear he didn't want to be a Yankee," Hank Steinbrenner, a son of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and now the figurehead of the club's baseball operations, told the New York Daily News. "He doesn't understand the privilege of being a Yankee on a team where the owners are willing to pay $200 million to put a winning product on the field.

"I don't want anybody on my team that doesn't want to be a Yankee."

Have you ever heard of so much poo-poo!!!

And in fact listen to this: Rodriguez hit .314 this year and led the majors with 54 homers and 156 RBIs. He was announced as a winner of a Hank Aaron award for offensive achievement before Game 4 but wasn't on hand to receive it. Boras said Rodriguez had a family commitment.

This month A-Rod has purchased a new penthouse in NY for about $17 million, paid cash and purchased a new jet for his many travels and this is a guy who just showed the world how to “opt-out” of a contract in the Big Apple, New York and do as he wants.

First, No Loyalty!

Gutless!

A new $300 million dollar deal for 10 years!

A-Rod, it is gutless to move on from NY. Making it in NY takes you to immortality, I suggest that he is still a long way from immortality.

He could never have a better support cast than in NY, this is the Apple.

I can understand the pressure of NY, but man that is why the Mantles, Berras, Fords and the rest of the Great Yankees are great, not only did they play in NY but they won World Series.

A-Rod has not come close, so in the grand scheme of things, he did not give George what George paid for right?

A-Rod went 4-for-15 (.267) with one RBI against in the Yankees' first-round playoff loss to Cleveland and is in an 8-for-59 (.136) postseason funk dating to 2004. Even worse has been his postseason hitting in the clutch. He is hitless in his past 18 playoff at-bats with runners in scoring position.

This is a huge mistake for A-Rod, bad judgment and there is no way that he can go to a team where he can be the player that he has been with the Yankees.

I know this that he will not knock in 156 runs next year and wont hit 50 homers again. The supporting cast no matter who the team is cant hold a candle with the Yankees.

Listen, the Yankees may say that they will miss him and of course they will but how much, they paid him $25 million per year to be a “Reggie Jackson” in the fall playoffs. He has never performed for that kind of money to bring the Yankees that Steinbrenner expected. George did not sign him to this deal to lose in the playoffs.

George thinks he is a great player but not a great Yankee, and I think that we all can confirm that fact, he has failed in the post season and man, that is the bottom line with old George.

Boras, his agent has outsmarted the game again and A-Rod now makes more than $30 million dollars per year, but will he be the guy for this new team, NO WAY. My God, Boras even told the media that he could not get a hold of the Yankees GM. Is there anyone out there that thinks that Scott Boras, the agent for A-Rod, does not have the cell phone of every Yankee Officer? Man, what is he smoking?

Folks one more time, the cast has changed.  His greed for the money and wanting to get out of the most intense pressure in the free world is the real answer that he wants out.

He could not take the critique. I really feel that is the real reason.

For A-Rod to suggest that the reason he is leaving is a joke too, Joe Girardi is a good guy and will be a very good manager for the Yankees, the Yanks are veterans for the most part, like our 68 Tigers, you only had to put their names in the box score and let ‘em go each game, let ‘em play the game.

And now with the new young pitchers coming to the team, look out, A-Rod or not, the Yanks will be there at the end again.

And you know who has to be happy as hell, one Derek Jeter, he is again the uncontested Mr Yankee once again, no more shenanigans with A-Rod, Derek is the guy, 100% of the time now, no matter and he is the marquee guy once again and the only real marquee guy, and folks, A-Rod never fit did he?

The Yankees asked for a meeting to discuss his future. A-Rod opted out without even trying to negotiate a new deal with the Yankees was just a gutless act, especially after the Yankees said they wanted him back, again, GREED and more GREED, the guy only cares about his environment and the hell with the other guys he called team mates, sad commentary for the game.

Now that A-Rod has made his decision, Texas turns out to be the biggest winner -- saving the remaining money it would have had to pay New York as part of the trade. Boras said the Rangers are still responsible for $3 million in annual deferred money A-Rod is owed in the next three years under the contract.

Oh well A-Rod, I don’t think anyone but your stripper and wife will welcome your decision to move, but on the other hand, you have lost this writer as a fan of yours, you let us down A-Rod, say it aint so Joe, say it aint so!!