Now, it appears there's a new celebrity couple that everyone's talking about. That's right, it's D-Rod. Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez's relationship is apparently the only thing that's actually newsworthy in Yankee-land. Sure there's Mariano's contract, and the Bernie Williams situation. Plus, most people are picking the Sox, who finished 3rd last year, to win the East. Of yeah, they haven't won a World Series since 2000, and haven't even been since 2003, despite having one of, if not the highest payroll each year. There's the pitching staff face-lift. There's Joe Torre's job. There's the 1b/DH/LF cluster-you-know-what involving Jason Giambi, Hideki Matsui and Melky Cabrera. And there's the Yanks, all-of-the-sudden-good-again farm system.But forget about that. Did you see the way Alex looked at Derek when they were taking fungos? I mean, what was that all about?!?!?!?
This is absurd. Who cares how often they stayed over at each other's houses? Who cares how much they talk/party/share their feelings/text-message each other? Even Jeter says he doesn't know why this is a huge story all of the sudden.
Quoting him (and he's absolutely right), "It has no bearing on us playing baseball."
You can't possibly tell me that if Jeter gave A-Rod a big hug before the start of last year's playoffs, he wouldn't have gone 1-14.
Yes, this is early front-runner for "Biggest Non-Story Of 2007," and the scary part is, it's not even March.
3 comments:
John Amechi deserves to be in the running for biggest non-story of 2007 as well. "Role player for 5 years in the NBA says he's gay." It would gotten half a day on the front list of links on ESPN. If it weren't for Tim Haradaway, we would have forgotten who John Amechi is already.
See I totally agree with you that it's pretty dumb to make a story out of this. And Jeter is right, professionals don't let personal relationships affect their play, which means it doesn't affect Jeter at all. ARod on the other hand is quite possibly the most oversensitive nancy in sports and I kind of think his played would be affected if Jeter and him were bff again and everyone in New York liked him.
I found this story hilarious. Perhaps it was the pop-culture-like title.
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