BorAss Reamed in BronxÂ
The BorAss and A-Rod show was the top news this week, as greed and PR converge to take any joy left out of baseball. In this instance at least all baseball owners should collude to lock out A-Rod as a means of shutting down the BorAss hype and greed machine that is ruining the game. Of course, baseball owners can not cry poverty, nor are they. $28 – $30 million a year is not chump change. Yankee management, and Yankee fans, are only asking for some respect and honor in a game that is fast losing both.
In the 2006 season I sat a few rows back of third base at Yankee Stadium and booed A-Rod so relentlessly that my throat was hoarse for several days afterwards. He made three baaad errors that game, struck out twice and was hitless for the game. It was one of his his worst days in a long, torturous season that inevitably spiraled down when the playoffs came and the pressure was on. Then A-Rod came alive in 2007 and won over fans, me included, by banging home runs, driving in runs, and playing like he finally “got” New York – despite fizzling again the playoffs. Now he heads 
out of town with a big middle finger extended, salivating over the $300 million he hopes to extort. You don’t need a $150 an hour New York shrink to tell you about abandonment and betrayal in that scenario. I guarantee that Yankee Stadium will literally shake with fury if A-Rod comes to the Bronx on an opposing team.
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