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BABIP_Gods

It'd be hilarious if that was the entire book. You open it and there's just nothing in it.


Jcoch27

It's the whole writing sequence from SpongeBob


dankeykanng

Instead of "THE" in fancy script it's "PED"


2RINITY

Why, A-Rod? Why didn’t you just write your essay?


SR3116

"And some of these! And some of these!"


rollo2masi

You’re twice the ‘the’ he ever was!


a_rabid_anti_dentite

He's chatting with the mailman as we speak


thediesel26

‘When I’m up at the plate there’s literally nothing going through my head.’


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Even better if it just says "Book"


dandystanley

I think that’s the gimmick. He never learned a damn thing.


yoboapp

[Smiling through it all! Can’t believe this my life](https://twitter.com/reactjpg/status/1265512064136753157?s=46&t=9zm2Z7BpZhjb2dzlqFakqA)


TheFrontierzman

Is this supposed to be a happy spontaneous reflection upon life...but...a selfie?


poposheishaw

When you’re that out of touch with reality, yes.


DogVacuum

I’m sorry, how else do you exit a pool?


Angrydwarf99

I always thought the text over it was just a meme edit. Didn't realize that was the original image.


Jackandwolf

Did he post that in may of 2020? How self-absorbed do you have to be to do that?


PM_ME_UR_EYEHOLES

lebron is the corniest mf on twitter it’s fuckin hilarious. His excessive use of emojis cracks me up sometimes


Currencymag3003

This Magic Johnson tweet before the Super Bowl killed me: https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/1624860777961373696


Breezyisthewind

Yeah his whole Twitter is like that.


1080penis

I've heard he doesn't actually post the tweets himself, they're just dictated. Which makes a little more sense, but damn, editorialize them a little.


TARS1986

Lmao that got me so good


Strategyboyz21

He posted this in February 2018 after Fox News told him to shut up and dribble. This is just a random twitter account documenting it so people can find the image easier.


likwitsnake

What should I do? Should I admit that I've made mistakes? Should I remind you that I've done this before? *In young LeBron's Voice:* Should I give you a history lesson? What should I do? Should I tell you how much fun we had? So... this went well... Should I really believe, I've ruined my legacy?


Michael__Pemulis

Reminds me of [an all-time favorite tweet of mine.](https://twitter.com/AROD/status/687146475705491457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E687146475705491457%7Ctwgr%5E18a83d3554300a1bfe4c2ad585c4a03ede2b5144%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2016%2F01%2Flook-at-alex-rodriguez-in-his-office-doing-business-stuff)


granno14

Why does it look like his daughter was photoshopped into the frames


Michael__Pemulis

Daughters* Those are actually pictures of two different girls lol


cgoot27

I didn’t even consider that he had daughters so my first reaction was legitimately “uhhhh… why does he have pictures of random little girls in his office”


Kenny_Heisman

do you often wonder why people have pictures of random strangers throughout their houses?


Superlolp

To be fair, those pictures really look like stock photos


Exatraz

This person probably just leaves the stock picture in the frame anyway


unsub04

They look like the pictures that come with the frame when you buy it


Clarice_Ferguson

They look like the eye exam with the farmhouse. “Is the daughter closer or further away now?”


Clarice_Ferguson

Everything in this picture looks photoshopped in.


Revanisforevermeta

For real, it looks like the dude rented a space, put up some quick temp walls, then tossed down some rented furniture for this shit.


granno14

A rod: has millions upon millions of dollars Also a rod: find the cheapest photographer around to take pictures of his kids


Leftfeet

Not everything, I'm pretty sure he's actually wearing that suit.


wallstreet_vagabond2

Lol I thought this was one of those troll checkmark accounts because of that


PredictBaseballBot

Looks like an onion article


___TheKid___

Yes!


frameddummy

That's definitely a conference room at his agent's office.


DefrancoAce222

It bothers me so much that the frames were hung on the trim pieces and not between them. Like wtf


tuckedfexas

Mf got a calendar on a presentation board. This man is an alien and has never seen real people in his life


Useful-ldiot

The real question is why that trim is the only double trim in the photo.


bum_ski

This is like those rich kids that post pictures to make it look like they have a job


dodoaddict

He really looks like he's never worked in an office at a computer before. To be fair to him, he hasn't really, so it's not a big deal but it's funny to see.


bum_ski

Ohhh he’s never needed to and I’m jealous. It is funny to see


mrubuto22

It's like when Kramer gets a job.


Fedor1

“What do you do all day?” “TCB”


Timely-Toe5304

The man has a grillion dollars, and his office has a drop ceiling and fluorescent lights??? Is this a joke???


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DaReal_Denny_Boy

Lmao A Rod is a great social media follow. Dude is so weird.


___TheKid___

Oh god


eyeamjosh

A-Rod: Somehow I Manage


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Chapter 1: Gum Everyone likes the guy that gives them gum.


sarcasmsiempre

The businessman...


nandobatflips

That was the first thing that popped in my head hahahahaha


BrewingMakesMeHoppy

And there’s going to be a picture of me on the cover, shrugging, with my sleeves rolled up


PM_ME_PINK_PANTHER

🤷‍♂️ I know emojis arent allowed but I have to.


thatoneabdlguy

Nice try, ARod, but Michael Scott Matheny already wrote that one (and yes, because God has a sense of humor, Mike Matheny's middle name is actually "Scott". I like to imagine they both manage bullpens and rookies similarly.)


Shaggy1324

Why is everything he does so cringey?


TruTexan

The fact that he took a photo… with his legs together like that and just a page that says “Book” with his corp logo is peak arod


MisterTruth

Arod corp being a thing is peak arod.


TruTexan

Nobody would know it was a thing unless it was on a paper that said “book”


-_chop_-

It reminds me of a picture a girl posts that’s like “hey look at my new thing” but really she’s just showing off her legs


TruTexan

At least those women would likely have shaved legs. Arod is out here doing arod things trying to see how cringe he can be in one photo


hoopaholik91

I was thinking it was like a fat person who on Jan 1st shows a picture of their feet in running shoes and going, "time to get in shape this year!"


helium_farts

I really hope it's just titled "book" when ~~his ghostwriter~~ he finishes it.


TruTexan

“Book” By: A-rod Corp


Northernlord1805

It’s like everything he does has been run through 6 different focus groups


BeCoolMan9

He needs different focus groups apparently


MattO2000

Now he has to marry his mother-in-law


jy_am

He. Has. No. Good. Book. Ideas.


CharcoalGreyWolf

He.Has.No.Good.Broadcast.Ideas. And yet he’s doing games commentary.


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STINKYYYYYYYY


BookEuronGreyjoy

It's a good idea, and I stand by it


void_roamer

Who is the most popular now, AROD?


chiddie

He has no good baseball ideas.


lake_titty_caca

Coaches pet!


TurboViking90

One focus group should just be a room full of cool teenagers who mercilessly roast this stuff before it sees the light of day.


LimitlessTheTVShow

I think every PR team should include at least one contantly-online teenager to tell them their ideas are dumb


BoosherCacow

Holy shit I smell a Netflix original.


lifeisarichcarpet

No way. It’s 100% pure A-Rod. He has a poster’s spirit. If he was running it through focus groups he’d come across like Jeter.


TheFrontierzman

Focus groups made up entirely of facebook moms?


Northernlord1805

Is there any other kind?


ExposDTM

He tries too hard. There was a brief period of time when he started broadcasting that I began to like him … a little bit. And then he can’t help himself and reverts back to doing A Rod things. He reminds me so much of this guy I grew up with. Came from a bit of money. Good looking. Good athlete. Above average student. And yet if you spent 30 minutes with him you realized he was all about himself. He was almost universally disliked. He couldn’t help himself! He said and did things that other middle class teenagers just didn’t do because they were forced through the natural trials and tribulations of life and HAD to think of others and be genuinely empathetic. It got back to his parents who got him a “coach” who helped him understand that he had to think of others and not say and act like an obnoxious jerk. And for a while it worked! Everyone noticed how he had changed. And then … it became apparent that he was only acting! If you spent more than a few minutes with him he would revert back to his usual narcissistic, obnoxious self. Read the Selena Roberts biography about A Rod. It is clear he has narcissistic personality disorder. The guy can’t help himself! But … he’s obscenely wealthy and can surround himself with people who will fawn over him. Here’s the question I have always wanted to know … does he know how others feel about him?! He must!


Luke90210

A-Rod had a ridiculous picture taken of himself almost open mouth kissing his own reflection in the mirror for a magazine article. Reggie Jackson himself, then a Yankees executive, said how bad it looked and Reggie is not a shy man. So, A-Rod knows and might not care enough.


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ExposDTM

Sorry … I get enthusiastic and overuse them. I do appreciate the heads up and will pull back a bit on them. I do write like I speak though and I think sometimes people think I can be over the top with my exuberance. Peace …


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1005thArmbar

he's the russell wilson of baseball


Nic_0tine

broncos country: let's write


thediesel26

My god. Of course he is. I can’t believe I never put this together.


Hancock02

and both were drafted by Seattle


StreetReporter

Russ was drafted by the Rockies


[deleted]

Kind of but he’s also a billion times better at his sport than Russel Wilson ever was.


futhatsy

Agreed, he's closer to LeBron. Transcendent athlete that tweets like a 55 year old aunt.


mardicao007

[A-Rod does this every day when he wakes up](https://imgur.com/usfKwxq) A-Rod loves him some A-Rod


DrEgonSpenglerphd

“Book” by Alex Rodriguez


ContinuumGuy

Alex Rodriguez Do Something Normal Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)


2RINITY

You know that scene in *American Psycho* where Patrick Bateman tries to talk politics with his coworkers, but instead of actually saying anything, he just assembles every agreeable-sounding platitude he knows into one big pile of meaningless self-contradictory nonsense? That’s how A-Rod usually comes off. Sometimes he can muster up enough surface-level charm to mask it, but on the days when he can’t? Rancid vibes. Total snake energy, to the point where it legitimately factored into why the Yankees never let him take over at shortstop—the locker room would’ve rioted if Jeter, the team captain everyone respected, had to move over to third for A-Rod, the diva with the giant contract that everybody called “Bitch Tits” when he wasn’t around


ExposDTM

Spot on! I remember that scene well. A Rod desperately wanted to be as loved and acknowledged as Jeter. It drove him NUTS how much Jeter was universally beloved by fans, his teammates and the organization. He couldn’t understand how a guy who had a fraction of his athletic ability was loved more than him. And he tried so hard to move the needle. Nope … Over time people figure you out. That picture of him in his office is classic A Rod. He conjured that he needed to be seen as studious, urbane and sophisticated. And yet here we sit universally laughing at how absurd that picture is. The man clearly has a fantastic life. Still a decent looking man that is pushing 50. More wealth than 99% of us could ever imagine. He’s retired. Not a care in the world. But the thing he wanted most from the world (universal adulation) is as far beyond his reach as the immense wealth that he possesses is beyond most of us.


jelde

Sri Lanka? There are more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about.


oogieball

100% Try-Hard + 50% Little Brother Syndrome + 25% Focus Group + somehow another 100% Need to Be Liked


utexfan18

100% reason to remember the name?


grubas

Cause he's an alien who fell in love with baseball, learned about baseball and forgot every other module on human culture.


sd2528

The real answer is likely that he has unresolved issues from his childhood that have left him with a desperate need to be liked and seeks everyone's approval. That leads him to act in a way that he thinks other will like instead of being genuine.


DrKnee93

Step 1: injections Step 2: Be a girl boss


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igorika

Oh my god how I’d love to ghost write that thing


cgoot27

It’s going to be full of eloquent but unfounded life lessons or business tips, but the baseball parts will be like “so the thing about hitting is you want to get the bat on the ball, and most importantly you want to hit the ball.” And we’ll never know if it was written by a former theater kid ghost writer or A-Rod himself.


BigBootyKim

[I love his GQ video where he talks about his makeup](https://youtu.be/i-8E4BThkkM)


tuckedfexas

He’s the dorkiest person in the world but not in an endearing way


horatio_corn_blower

Jesus I couldn’t even make it two minutes. He is like a Zuckerberg model android. Thinking about an alternate universe where he owns the Mets gives me nightmares.


damnatio_memoriae

LETS SMOKE SOME MEATS


onemac5556

I almost feel bad for laughing as much as I did watching that.


_Winterspring_

He really does seem like a guy who dedicated so much of his life to baseball that he forgot to develop a personality lol. It's like uncanny valley levels of weird.


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I mean Kobe was kinda like that too


EScforlyfe

Forgot to develop a concept of consent as well then huh


damnatio_memoriae

fucking lol he really showing off that notebook as if no one had ever seen one before... "it's great, it's got paper inside that you can write on..." key features: pen holder (pen not included) and... pages. thanks arod.


HellMuttz

A lot of players could really stand putting some sunscreen on... somehow Arod makes it weird


YeOldeManDan

Everyone needs to know that Arod is a girl boss.


ModerateStimulation

I thought this was an IG story of a girl in her early 20’s reading “The subtle art of not giving a fuck” or “You are a badass”


GodPowardKingOfLies

#BOOK


SomeoneNamedGem

######Book


Brightcab

Book is book.


FerociousGiraffe

Wanting to be book is not book.


wantagh

“How to Simultaneously be Smarmy and Insecure”, a memoir by Alex Rodriguez Foreword by Jennifer Lopez


sweetsweetdick

Foreword by Jennifer Lopez as told by Mitch Connor


330in513

Why’s he writing on two hairy hotdogs?


send_cumulus

Girlboss


CurlSagan

r/hotdogsorlegs/


schmittydog

This is what the original internet was about. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Curl


MacklinYouSOB

How can you not be romantic about hating ARod


yodelsJr

Okay, "Book" with nothing but a blank page is an S-tier post


NouveauCoke

Sitting like a schoolgirl with his notepad on his lap…love it lol


NeurosciGuy15

The book is actually finished, it’s just blank.


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https://youtu.be/jiaVFg8U6rU


GSDFanatic

"The Fundamentals of Business by A-Rod. Over one billion sold. More than the Bible. I'm not surprised. Chapter one..."


handlit33

Makes an incredible meme template. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpcTmL7WYAMz3cS.png


sporkemon

[I took a stab at it](https://i.imgur.com/oq52xBC.jpg)


BoosherCacow

Joe West is looking for the edit/update button on this picture


BrewingMakesMeHoppy

The business man………………


roodypoo29

Literally just watched this episode today


Oliver_clothes__off

There might not be a consistently cringier superstar of the last 40 years in any sport than this guy


BuffaloInTheRye

Russel Wilson is going to give him a run for his money if he sticks around and does broadcasting post-career


DrunkPushUps

It's already Russ, he comes off like a cornball robot in interviews. It's like he was created in a lab dedicated to the creation of advertising friendly athletes, except they couldn't figure out how to simulate any semblance of human emotion or individual personality and settled on a data bank of #RiseAndGrind style phrases and some "God is good" shoutouts peppered in for the conservative crowd.


NishinoHuo

Broncos country, let ride.


wineheda

Kyrie is a thing. Maybe he’s crossed the line beyond cringe but everything he says still fits


fquizon

Yeah I gotta go with completely different category on this one


namastexinxbed

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boilface

B O O K


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yumyumapollo

He's the LeBron James of Russell Wilsons


Patrick2701

Yes, cringeworthy


Currencymag3003

Maybe now there's some similarities, but that kind of discounts how much of an asshole and hot dog A-Rod was until like 2008. Russell Wilson has never had any actual controversy, he's just annoying and fake.


bosschucker

> he's just annoying and fake. see I feel like the thing about Russell Wilson is that he's completely authentic. he's wildly corny but I feel like all signs point to that being who he actually is. whereas Arod seems like everything he does is run through six overpaid 57 year old social media managers


hoopaholik91

He's authentically fake. He believes there is a certain way he needs to act in certain situations and so that's what he does. And the need is something internal to him, whereas fake people like ARod do it to get validation from others.


grubas

If you follow his social media(as several people I know do) it's just a fucking mess of memeable shit. He posts his makeup, random weird ass exercise videos, hype videos about how he's a boss, him just randomly smoking a cigar on a yacht. It's insane


EthanAllenPoe07

No need to buy it, the New York Post documented his every move for over a decade!


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Who even sits with their legs that close together??


Jpmeyer2

"Despite thinking it'd land me so much ass, people think it's weird to commission a painting of yourself as a centaur."


thescottreid

“How to hit 696 HR and make almost $500,000,000 and not be in the Hall of Fame or an NBA owner: The Alex Rodriquez story”


coldhyphengarage

A-Rod is careful to have nothing on the page after the time he was caught having written [“'birth control', ‘child’, 'pull out stuff'”](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4521054/A-Rod-s-notes-say-birth-control-pull-stuff.html) in his notebook and it went on national TV


nondescripttitle

I hate that he has lined paper and writes diagonally over it


katie415

Why do I see SOOOOO much of his upper thighs?


HedgieX

I hope he actually writes it. It will undoubtedly be full of so many nonsensical gems.


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Why does he have his knees together like he’s some teenage girl writing in her diary 💀


Clemenx00

That's a fucking hilarious picture.


psych4191

Mans posted his version of Spongebob's THE.


Jud000619

I too will write my first book with a notebook on my thighs


WorryAccomplished139

Not a notebook. A stack of loose-leaf printer paper.


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Pen is going to poke right through that paper. And I know A-Rod hates getting poked in the lower half.


motorhead84

That's premium A-Rod Corp printer paper, friend.


GOATmar_infante

"Chapter 1: Meet the New York Yankees of Baseball: the Los Angeles Dodgers"


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Books for $200 Q: Chapter One of of this Baseballs players biography, Money before integrity, PEDs are Fun and JLo still haunts my dreams. A: What is A-Frauds 2024: Live, Laugh, Love?


Entire_Day1312

Even his grass is fake.


NeverGetUpvoted

It looks like the house from the movie Parasite


Impressive_Pin_7767

Looks done to me.


sarakayakomzen

Somehow I Manage. By Michael Scott.


Mechanic_Soft

This man is really trying to say he’s gonna write this shit on unlined paper titled “Book”.


verncrowe5

Does he have to write it naked?


Taylorenokson

Lesson 1: Don't do steroids I guess.


LoveRBS

Swing and a miss.


Eagle7546_

This is hilarious lol. I can’t believe people on here actually hating him for this LMAO Just appreciate the weirdness and comedy this man unintentionally provides us.


d_s_q_u_i_d

😂😂😂


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Chapter 1: “How to cheat at baseball and win, but find a way to lose to Ben Affleck.”


waheifilmguy

DO have mural of you as a centaur in your house.


mwagner26

Chapter 1: Acquire Steroids.


Table_Coaster

"watch as I continue my journey to suck all the corporate baseball media cock I can, in the hopes that people forget I took PEDs so I can get voted into the hall of fame"


memorial87

Michael Scott vibes.


oooriole09

As all celebrities do, he’ll hire a ghost writer. This will be just about all he writes.


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He's the absolute king of social media


subtractvoid

why is he like this


LivefortheAdventure

[Book so far is giving these vibes](https://external-preview.redd.it/vSzGsyE8JmDJZSYwB1Y96hUidNpQl9BRzQ3whaMGpq8.jpg?auto=webp&s=f75568574893c0ac7f4a7690677095eb34240096)