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sweetadeline Posted: Apr 05, 2005 12:10 PM+

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Posted: Apr 05, 2005 12:10 PM

Interesting article on A-Rod

I'm still undecided about A-Rod... thought this article was interesting.

A-Rod article

RedHead Posted: Apr 05, 2005 12:37 PM+

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Posted: Apr 05, 2005 12:37 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

ALL I CAN SAY IS I HOPE HE HAS A BETTER YEAR THIS YEAR

HE REALLY NEEDS TO START EARNING THE SALARY HE HAS BEEN GIVEN

MrsERod Posted: Apr 05, 2005 02:01 PM+

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Posted: Apr 05, 2005 02:01 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

Posted by RedHead

ALL I CAN SAY IS I HOPE HE HAS A BETTER YEAR THIS YEAR

HE REALLY NEEDS TO START EARNING THE SALARY HE HAS BEEN GIVEN

AMEN SISTA!!!

sweetadeline Posted: Apr 05, 2005 04:26 PM+

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Posted: Apr 05, 2005 04:26 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

Posted by RedHead

ALL I CAN SAY IS I HOPE HE HAS A BETTER YEAR THIS YEAR

HE REALLY NEEDS TO START EARNING THE SALARY HE HAS BEEN GIVEN

WORD!

lilmrs Posted: Apr 05, 2005 09:41 PM+

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Posted: Apr 05, 2005 09:41 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

Posted by sweetadeline

Posted by RedHead

ALL I CAN SAY IS I HOPE HE HAS A BETTER YEAR THIS YEAR

HE REALLY NEEDS TO START EARNING THE SALARY HE HAS BEEN GIVEN

WORD!

True Dat!

aidamarie Posted: Apr 06, 2005 02:39 AM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2005 02:39 AM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

A-Rod is overpaid and over rated

FeliciaDA Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:07 PM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:07 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

I would have liked nothing better than to have seen A-Rod go somewhere else last year...he's in the game for HIMSELF and to WIN A RING - but a team player, well I just don't see that in him and it infuriates me

The key to the Yankees success in the late 90s was that they played as a TEAM.. there were no dominant 'superstar' on the field - but together they had great chemisty and didn't focus on their individual 'numbers.' Playing 'little ball' was what Torre taught them , playing a more 'national league' style of game .. and it WORKED for them. As a TEAM they did whatever it took to WIN games... And being the STAR on the field was secondary to that group of players. That is why that group of players (Jeter, O'Neill, Tino, Girardi, Petitte, etc) was and are STILL so beloved.

If I have to make a comparison, those Yankee teams reminded me of what Boston pulled off last year

.. Boston had the drive, they worked well as a team. The Yankee organization, for all the money they invested last year, didn't have 1/2 their spark. And A-ROD was a HUGE part of their collapse

A-Rod is not that type of team player IMO... he's got great numbers, he hits home runs.. he's adjusting to 3rd base.. but I don't feel like he jells with his teammates at all

I DO HOPE this IMPROVES this year, because already there is a prominant A-ROD backlash and I know that for the insane amount of moola he is raking in, he better perform this year on an EXCEPTIONAL level

sweetadeline Posted: Apr 06, 2005 02:12 PM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2005 02:12 PM

Re: Interesting article on A-Rod

A-Rod just homered to make today's score Boston 2- Yankees 1. That helps a little bit!

ETA: Felicia, I totally agree with your points about the 'team spirit' of the great 1990s teams. I think that ever since they got Giambi and lost Tino, Paul O'Neill, Scott Brosius, and a lot of the 'old guard' almost all at once, they started looking shakier. Wasn't Giambi's fault -- just the way the team changed so dramatically had unfortunate effects...