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Let some other team take him and his empty numbers.

While I’m happy as hell that they won last night I’ve got the ph34r in me that they will be tempted by the gaudy numbers of one Alex Rodriguez.

Red Stockings, please don’t buy into it.

Please!

Just re-sign Mike Lowell and let the can’t win*, stat hound, baby go play somewhere else. Seriously! Who would you rather have, a guy whose biggest playoff moment is slapping a ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s hand out of spite because he failed to do anything with his bat or a World Series MVP like Mike Lowell? I swear to god I will take the next couple of summers off if they sign A-Rod. I’m serious. I can do it now that they’ve won a couple of times. I’ve got cycling to watch for a sporting fix and I can just enjoy the outdoors a little more. I’d rather have that than to sit through them pandering to the bloated stats of the heartless wonder. What did he do down the stretch? 1-infinity? He was mad cold when it counted. Theo, keep that in mind when you look at those fancy numbers.

Fuck that guy.

Buster Olney knows:

The way this played out could not have been more apropos, because A-Rod needs to be bigger than the game; he needs to be more important than the Red Sox or the Rockies or any other team, or any other player. He is one of the greatest players in history at compiling statistics, the greatest ever at compiling wealth, and his next employer will have to buy into that. The World Series can’t matter as much as A-Rod.

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Somebody will buy into A-Rod, of course. He’s an extraordinary player. The cost will be hundreds of millions, and the heart and soul, of his next franchise.

A-Rod upstages the World Series

*Lowell has two rings.