The Booing of Arod - Page 2 - Talksox

rician blast · 06-15-2006, 09:46 AM

The fans have a right to boo, that is without doubt. But if they truly cared about their team, wouldn't they back off? I mean the treatment of ARod is in part exacerbating his struggles, no?

ARod has to learn to just play ball and forget all of the PC shit and concerns over his image and also learn to ignore the fans boos...but I think that's going to be very hard for him to do.

As a Sox fan I say boo his ass off, Yankee fans, because I really think that you bear some of the responsibility for him not living up to his contract. Let's face it...he doesn't suck...he's just underperforming in relation to expectations.

If the day comes that Jeter or any other key Yankee player publicly steps up and supports ARod I'll be a little concerned, as a non-Yankee fan.

If the day comes where the fans back off and try and urge ARod on through acceptance (yeah, right!), I'll wonder if he's gonna turn it on big-time.

Until then I think ARod should say fck the fans, fck George, fck his image, and just play ball. Problem is, I don't think he knows how to do that.

Pinstripe_Pride · 06-15-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rician blast

I mean the treatment of ARod is in part exacerbating his struggles, no?

Yeah well I'd agree with that considering on the YES broadcast they zoomed in on Arod after his at bat and he was banging his bat against the bat holder and he couldn't get it into one of the holes and he just kept hitting it and hitting it. I've definitely had bad days when things just mount and explode in one stupid instance, like I can't get the key into the door so i just keep jabbing and jabbing to no avail. You can really tell that Arod is getting super frustrated and it's going to be a vicious cycle. Arod can't hit and then he gets booed, Arod gets booed and then he can't hit.

Optimist · 06-15-2006, 06:39 PM

The team is going on the road for awhile, maybe that's the best thing for A-Rod right now.

yankeessuck013 · 06-15-2006, 08:41 PM

I didn't catch the game today,

However, I watched the highlights, and managed to catch A-rods temper go a bit wild in the dugout after his chance to come up big.

This shows me two things...one, A-rod is really starting to get affected by his non-clutch performances, and that he can't handle the booing from the fans.

If anyone wants to e-mail a-rod, some yankee fan sent him this in another board I post at : http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/player...alex/email.jsp

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"How do you cash your paycheck? I'd feel guilty if I was robbing people of their money. Why couldn't the league have allowed the trade to Boston, so we wouldn't have to go through a slow, painful demise due to your play. Thanks for all those "clutch" hits, and timely errors. Good riddance."

**Youk Of The Nation** · 06-15-2006, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Optimist

The team is going on the road for awhile, maybe that's the best thing for A-Rod right now.

Yeah, because he never gets booed on the road. Only in Seattle, Texas, Boston, Kansas City, Minnesota, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Colorado, Los Angeles of Anaheim, San Fransisco, Shea Stadium (does that count as on the road?), Florida, Atlanta, Washington, San Diego, Arizona, Cincinatti, Chicago again, Pittsburgh, Houston, formerly Montreal, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.

On the bright side, Im sure no one in Boise will ever boo him.

Optimist · 06-15-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Youk Of The Nation

Yeah, because he never gets booed on the road. Only in Seattle, Texas, Boston, Kansas City, Minnesota, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Colorado, Los Angeles of Anaheim, San Fransisco, Shea Stadium (does that count as on the road?), Florida, Atlanta, Washington, San Diego, Arizona, Cincinatti, Chicago again, Pittsburgh, Houston, formerly Montreal, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.

On the bright side, Im sure no one in Boise will ever boo him.

There's a difference between getting booed at home and on the road.

yankeessuck013 · 06-15-2006, 09:15 PM

yeah on the road its worse

Optimist · 06-15-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by yankeessuck013

yeah on the road its worse

Not really. It's louder (maybe not in this case) but most players, I imagine, don't mind being booed on the road (fans of other teams don't boo bad players.)

**Youk Of The Nation** · 06-15-2006, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Optimist

fans of other teams don't boo bad players.

Boston fans boo A-Rod.

Pinstripe_Pride · 06-15-2006, 10:31 PM

Being booed at home is much worse than being booed on the road. At least on the road it can pump you up. When your home crowd is booing you it makes you press and want to impress them, and it would make me feel like shit to boot. On the road you can just say, "fudge 'em" and move on.

rician blast · 06-16-2006, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Pinstripe_Pride

You can really tell that Arod is getting super frustrated and it's going to be a vicious cycle. Arod can't hit and then he gets booed, Arod gets booed and then he can't hit.

exactly, and if he were on my team I'd want to give him a break to see if he turns it around...for the better of the TEAM.

But as a Sox fan I'm ok with it.

Optimist · 06-16-2006, 01:11 PM

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"Whatever you want to write right now, you're probably right," Rodriguez said. "So go ahead and rip away. Rip away, rip away. If I was a writer I'd probably write some nasty things too."

"If you want to write the worst articles you've ever written about someone, today's a good day to write about me."

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yankeessuck013 · 06-16-2006, 02:03 PM

Yeah I heard that on ESPN, and he they showed him trying to put the bat in the bat holder, I really can't imagine how frustrated he is right now.

Sad part is, George can't do 1 thing about it, because no one will take on that kind of $, except Boston.

Optimist · 06-16-2006, 02:10 PM

An interesting quote from that article...

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And he's respected by the American League's most knowledgeable executives, notably A's GM Billy Beane, who recently said, "I'd take Alex in a minute. He's the kind of player everyone should be rooting for in this day and age. You know he's not doing steroids, he plays hard, he's good to the fans. And still he gets booed. I don't understand it."

I don't know if he was saying he'd just take the kind of player A-Rod is or, in a deal, he'd actually take A-Rod and whatever part of his contract.

Oh well, A-Rod's not going anywhere. Regardless of whether or not there are any teams that want him, I don't think the Yankees would trade him or he'd agree to it (I assume he has a no trade clause.)

AlexanderTheGreat13 · 06-16-2006, 03:21 PM

Despite what has gone on I would never trade A-Rod.