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Originally Posted by He Hate Me
I don't have a problem saying it. I did not want A-Rod back and I still don't want him back.
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This is why most Yankee fans are clueless.
Do you realize that without his season, we don't make the playoffs this past season? That with the team constructed as it is, we wouldn't make the playoffs next season? Do you realize that he's the only legitimate righty power threat in the lineup?
Do you realize that he hits well against the Red Sox pitchers? Do you realize he out-hit most of the Yankees against Detroit? Even the famed Derek Jeter, who was unquestionably the offensive goat against Detroit?
Personally, I know we'll be there in October again, barring injury. So will the Red Sox and the Angels. The question will be Detroit or Cleveland. We are a stronger team heading to 2008 than we were in 2007. Without Arod, we have NO CHANCE.
We got lucky in the early 90's. Do you really think our farm system will turn out a boderline Hall of Fame center fielder and catcher, a hall of fame shortstop, and the greatest reliever in the history of baseball all within 4 years like we did in the 90's?
I hear this BULLSHIT from Yankee fans all the time. Dude, look at the Red Sox. Who the hell did they rebuild with? Pedroia, Papelbon, and Youkilis? Merry fucking Christmas. As good as those players are, Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling, Beckett, and Lowell had more to do with it. Those guys were trades or free agents.
You hope to get lucky with some players from your farm system, and you use trades and free agent signings to supplement what you have. It's what we did in the 90's. It's what the Sox are doing now. We were successful in the 90's, they are now. It's the same strategy.
Wake up.