BASEBALL/KAREN’S RANT: ALEX RODRIGUEZ’S SHOCKING RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!

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ALEX RODRIGUEZ’S SHOCKING RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!

I’m interrupting my own Olympics experience to bring you this oh-so-sad-to-me news.

yankees-a-rod-new-york-yankees-designated-hitter-alex-rodriguezI’m sorry if this is semi-incoherent, but it’s hard to write through my tears. I’m not kidding about that. I could not stop crying all day yesterday, from the moment I heard the shocking news. And then when I saw Alex Rodriguez fighting his own tears during his press conference, my floodgates opened even more. And have continued since then. (I actually broke my own Olympics-watching rules yesterday, and went to a friend’s 29th birthday party because, as much as I love sports, I know that some things, like friendships, are more important. But I can’t tell you how hard it was to get make-up on my tear-swollen eyes.)

In case you don’t know to what I’m referring, yesterday morning, I woke-up to the horribly depressing news that my favorite baseball player, (I’ll explain that later,) is retiring after the Yankees game this Friday. No one, (not my friends, my Facebook pals, the baseball commentators and analysts, Mr. X, nor myself) can really explain it. There’s really no rational explanation. It wasn’t Alex’s decision; it appears to be all on the Yankees organization. But why?

Why are the Yankees doing this to A-Rod right now? Why couldn’t they have waited until the end of the season? With all the crazy, and unnecessary, trades of a trio of their very best players (Carlos Beltran, Andrew Miller, and Aroldis Chapman,) this past week, they seem to have already given-up the fight for the title this season, so there’s no real rationale for what they did, unless they just wanted to screw him. But they’re keeping him on, in many baloney-sounding roles, so I don’t get it.

And they still have to pay him, so why couldn’t just they let Arod finish out the season, especially to give him the chance to get to seven hundred home runs? Right now, he’s just four shy of that milestone. What is the rush to end it this particular Friday? Why that date? I really can’t figure it out.

Can any of you explain it? If so, please do, in the Comments below. I’d also love to hear any theories.

imagesLast question on the topic: Why did the Yankees organization have to “retire” Arod during the Olympics, especially the first week-end, when interest in the games was extra-high? I think it was to screw Alex even more. If any of the Yankee organization knew me, I would take it personally. Because of the aforementioned birthday party yesterday, I was already behind schedule in my Olympics watching, and this set me back sooo many more hours. It’s like they wanted to bury the news, for the casual sports-watcher, rather than allowing it to be the most shocking, important sports story of the day. Of any day! I’m seriously going to find it hard to love and root for the Yanks for a long while. Thank goodness I’ve always also loved the Mets, and actually for much longer. But, because I love them both, I missed all four games between the two last week because it would hurt to see either lose. So, I missed-out on seeing alex’s gorgeous visage those many more times. Hopefully, when the Yankees are done paying him at the end of next season, he’ll become a sportscaster, because he was really great at it during last year’s play-offs. So, at least I’ll get to enjoy his face then. (Too bad not also his big, gorgeous body, but oh well.)

080716-mlb-yankees-alex-rodriguez-pi.vadapt.664.high.99By the way—to people who are shocked that I could be such a fan of someone who admittedly cheated: It’s not how you start, but how you finish. And I really admire how Alex conducted himself since he’s been back from serving his uber-long suspension. That can’t have been a fun position to be in. I can’t even imagine it. But he really handled the whole thing with unusual class and grace. And that’s when I became a real fan of his. And not just of his face and athletic prowess, but of him as a person. I have to get back to the Olympics now, so I can explain more at a later date, when I’ve had some time to process it all.

But for now, I just have to wish Alex the best in his new non-playing life, which I have a feeling may be a tad difficult adjustment for him—the guy is forty-one-years-old, and has been playing baseball non-stop for his entire life!

Oh, and—Go, Mets!!!

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