Let’s
end this debate right here. Alex Rodriguez is
without question Major League Baseball’s
2002 Most Valuable Player. It’s absolutely
ridiculous to write him off as the MVP simply
because the Texas Rangers suck ass. Is it his
fault that Chan Ho Suck couldn’t retire
a Little League team in order? Or that the Rangers’
bullpen resembles a Jenny Craig meeting? Hell
fucking no.
The whole idea behind the MVP award is that the
player chosen should be the unquestionable choice
by any manager if they could take any player they
wanted from the league. If I was starting my own
team, I’d want A-Rod. I might consider taking
Randy Johnson or Curt Schilling only because they’re
workhorses. I think pitchers, overall, are fatasses
and are babied too much these days. Starters throw
about 100 pitches every five days, give me a fucking
break, the most they can do for you is win one
game in every five. That’s not an MVP. A-Rod,
on the other hand, has pimparific numbers this
year:
56 HR, .304 BA, 139 RBI, 1.022 OPS.
On top of that, he’s made just 10 errors
all season. His glove work has gotten consistently
better to compliment his bat, and he’s still
only 27 years old.
Miguel Tejada? Alfonso Soriano? Is everyone but
me on crystal meth? No on else has put up these
kinds of numbers. Tejada and Soriano and Giambi
have the luxury of being on winning teams, but
their teams would be winning even without them.
Everyone is far too fucking concerned with how
much money he makes. $252 million, yes, we know.
Thank you for pointing out the goddamn obvious.
A-Rod is not the cause of baseball’s inflated
salaries, he’s merely benefiting from it.
Does anyone bitch and moan that Jennifer Aniston
and the rest of the Friends cast makes $1 million
per episode? Or Will Smith makes $20 million per
movie?
If he loses the award because his team happens
to be a flaming pile of shit (not his fault),
not only will good players be reluctant to play
for crap-ass teams (which means they’ll
continue to suck forever), but the real MVP will
have been overlooked for a player who is lucky
enough to be on a contender. And that my friends,
is complete bullshit.
And now with the spirit of the Emmys still around
us, it’s time for Batgirl’s long-awaited..
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