He’s the best damn player in the league. He’s a star, he’s rich, he’s good looking, his wife is hot, he has EVERYTHING going for him. He’s the head honcho.

Sure, we hate players that pull stupid stunts, but A-Rod is different. He doens’t need to be pulling the stupid stunts to be good, yet he continues to do things like slap the ball, yell “mine”, elbow Pedroia, bone a manly-looking Toronto exotic dancer, and can’t decide whether he’s Dominican or American.

My dad always says this: 他這麼大牌，他需要這樣嗎?

He’s SO FUCKING GOOD, and to this day 99% of people think he’s clean of steroids. But why do we hate him?

He’s the man, but he still acts like a bitch.

A-Rod’s numbers alone are freakish. That alone should make us suspicious. Not everyone who has been caught/implicated/suspected of PEDs looked the part.

I also root against the Yankees because they tell grown men how to groom themselves. That and they benefit the most from MLB’s ridiculous lack of substantive revenue sharing and a salary cap, means I don’t care if Boston is nearly as bad. Boston lets Manny have dreads, and wouldn’t need to spend all the money if the Yankees didn’t take advantage of the system the way they do. There’s also the absurd hubris of the Steinbrenners….

So, yes, baseball would be far better if the Yankees were contracted, but barring that at least they’re cursed.

I’ve never been a big fan of the guy, but I have to admit he’s a hell of a player. And ‘Canseco has been right about a lot of other things’ is what logicians call a logical fallacy. Canseco hasn’t been right about a lot of things, too, and he has a distinct knack for self-aggrandizement. There’s also that pesky ‘proof’ thing, which might play a larger role than normal here, since A-Rod doesn’t sport the physically freakish qualities that make Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, etc., more obvious as PED users.

I assume you also enjoy watching Boston, LA, Baltimore (at times), the Cubs, the Mets, the ‘08 Tigers and all the other teams with wildly inflated payrolls lose, too. Even the D’backs bought the championship in 2001. It’s much more fun watching hapless teams try to beat ridiculous odds while their owners pocket the revenue sharing money they could be spending on improving their clubs. And let’s not forget the brilliant Mr. Beane and his skinflint, boring, by the numbers, non-championship approach to the game.

Yeah, but those Yankees are pretty horrible. All they do is try to win all the time, give their fans a good ride every year, and increase the profits of the other owners in the league, through increased attendance, luxury taxes, and the aforementioned, often pocketed, revenue sharing. Damn bastards. They’ve been ruining the game for 85 years now, and it’s time they knocked it off already. They should strive for mediocrity and field lousier, cheaper teams so some other owners don’t look so bad. Then they’ll be worth rooting for, or at least not worth rooting against.

Bastards.

I don’t hate A-Rod either, or even dislike him really. I do love to see the Yankees lose and I think the joy of watching A-Rod fail is similar to watching the Yankees lose. He makes the most money and yet wilts year after year; to me that’s fun.

I could care less about his personality or any of that other stuff, but anything that makes him look bad is fun. But I’m also not sure his reputation as the best player is deserved — playing on that Yankees team, he sees a lot more pitches to hit than most batters. And I’m also not sure he’s clean drug-wise; Canseco has been right about a lot of other things. If A-Rod was still playing in Seattle or Texas, I think people would be much more suspicious of his accomplishments. But it’s nothing personal — the title was only meant to get attention, not to hate.