A-Rod is a Goner

This morning on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters, there was more fallout on A-Rod from his latest set of lies. Clearly, the press has had enough of his excuses and of steroids. Old Time baseball writers like Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan have had enough. Clearly the Baseball Writers are rebelling, the drugs have to go and out with those who took them and their associated records.

The last element of integrity in baseball is with the baseball writers, those men and women who determine a player’s immortality in Cooperstown.

Clearly the writers are leaning to the right, only true immortals belong in the Hall of Fame. Bob Ryan went so far as to suggest a special wing for the steroid era players. However it appears the vast consensus is they don’t want to vote for any of them when they time comes. The writers are calling for action from Bud Selig. I think they will be waiting a long time.

If Selig does anything, like roll back the records books to Hank Aaron and Roger Maris, I will be amazed.

If Pete Rose won’t get into Cooperstown because of his gambling, then why allow all the steroid and HGH users into the Hall? At least this, Rose’s gambling only hurt him. It didn’t alter historical records or put Alex Rodriquez on par with Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.

More so, the Baseball Writers seem to want A-Rod gone. The Yankees, the most respected team in baseball because of tradition and talent is stuck with him. The only way to get him out of NY is by permanent injury or paying his salary. He is however an ugly stain on the Yankees.

New York and Boston are the ultimate baseball towns. Fans in those cities may follow other sports, but baseball is special. To those fans, and maybe hat has spread elsewhere, baseball is religion. And the religion of baseball has sinned. The biggest public sinner is A-Rod, so naturally the deacons of the religion, the baseball writers want him exorcised.

Will the Yankees toss A-Rod, not unless he does not perform. As long as his offense holds up, he will stay in pinstripes. We are stuck with him until his contract runs out, or his body breaks down. But even if he lasts, the writers will not let him into Cooperstown. There minds are made up; no one will enter Cooperstown in pinstripes who has stained the Yankee legend and those Yankees who are already enshrined in Cooperstown.

As for Alex, I mailed him a roll of duct tape to apply to this mouth. Taping it shut is better than continuing to lie unconvincingly. He needs not to talk anymore. Anyway even if he does, not one will believe him. He’s like the boy who cried wolf. At least Aesop told a better fairy tale.