{"id":24060,"date":"2016-08-08T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=24060"},"modified":"2016-08-19T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:25:37","slug":"baseballkarens-rant-alex-rodriguezs-shocking-retirement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/baseballkarens-rant-alex-rodriguezs-shocking-retirement-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"BASEBALL\/KAREN’S RANT: ALEX RODRIGUEZ\u2019S SHOCKING RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALEX RODRIGUEZ\u2019S SHOCKING RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!<\/h1>\n

I\u2019m interrupting my own Olympics experience to bring you this oh-so-sad-to-me news.<\/p>\n

\"yankees-a-rod-new-york-yankees-designated-hitter-alex-rodriguez\"<\/a>I\u2019m sorry if this is semi-incoherent, but it\u2019s hard to write through my tears. I\u2019m 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<\/em> floodgates opened even more. And have continued since then. (I actually broke my own Olympics-watching rules yesterday, and went to a friend\u2019s 29th birthday party because, as much as I love sports, I know that some things, like friendships, are more important. But I can\u2019t tell you how hard it was to get make-up on my tear-swollen eyes.)<\/p>\n

In case you don\u2019t know to what I\u2019m referring, yesterday morning, I woke-up to the horribly depressing news that my favorite baseball player, (I\u2019ll 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\u2019s really no rational explanation. It wasn\u2019t Alex\u2019s decision; it appears to be all on the Yankees organization. But why?<\/p>\n

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\u2019s no real rationale for what they did, unless they just wanted to screw him. But they\u2019re keeping him on, in many baloney-sounding roles, so I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s just four shy of that milestone. What is the rush to end it this particular Friday? Why that date? I really can\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n

Can any of you explain it? If so, please do, in the Comments below. I\u2019d also love to hear any theories.<\/p>\n

\"images\"<\/a>Last question on the topic: Why did the Yankees organization have to \u201cretire\u201d 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<\/em>, 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<\/em> many more hours. It\u2019s 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<\/em> day! I\u2019m seriously going to find it hard to love and root for the Yanks for a long while. Thank goodness I\u2019ve 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\u2019s gorgeous visage those many more times. Hopefully, when the Yankees are done paying him at the end of next season, he\u2019ll become a sportscaster, because he was really great at it during last year\u2019s play-offs. So, at least I\u2019ll get to enjoy his face then. (Too bad not also his big, gorgeous body, but oh well.)<\/p>\n

\"080716-mlb-yankees-alex-rodriguez-pi.vadapt.664.high.99\"<\/a>By the way\u2014to people who are shocked that I could be such a fan of someone who admittedly cheated: It\u2019s not how you start, but how you finish. And I really admire how Alex conducted himself since he\u2019s been back from serving his uber-long suspension. That can\u2019t have been a fun position to be in. I can\u2019t even imagine it. But he really handled the whole thing with unusual class and grace. And that\u2019s 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\u2019ve had some time to process it all.<\/p>\n

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\u2014the guy is forty-one-years-old, and has been playing baseball non-stop for his entire life!<\/p>\n

Oh, and\u2014Go, Mets!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALEX RODRIGUEZ\u2019S SHOCKING RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT! I\u2019m interrupting my own Olympics experience to bring you this oh-so-sad-to-me news. I\u2019m sorry if this is semi-incoherent, but it\u2019s hard to write through my tears. I\u2019m not kidding about that. I could not stop crying all day yesterday, from the moment I heard the shocking news. And then when<\/p>\n

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