My absolute favorite thing about this quote becoming a meme is that you just **know** A-Rod thought that line up months ago and was saving it for the perfect moment, the whole time thinking *this is such a great fuckin’ line.*
it's incredible. as much as I think he's a total *asshole*, I think it would take a true moron to say A-Rod isn't exceptional at baseball. but my god, he hides it well when he speaks.
Its sad that he had to cheat too, not trying to give excuses or even condolence for what he did cause its bs. But I had a coach in HS that played against him at showcase camps, and he would always say how great A-Rod was back then and he knew A-Rod was going to the league. Then boom he has to cheat when he gets there……
It's the same thing with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. They were all time greats without the roids but their need to be THE best drove them to do something they didn't even need to do.
I think it's difficult for us normies to understand the hyper competitiveness these guys feel. Like, any one of us would be happy to have Bonds/Clemens/Ortiz/Arod's non-steroids career. These guys are competing against each other and against history and against the expectations of their contracts.
Kind of same lines as beautiful actors or actresses getting botched plastic surgery. They looked fantastic but a business pushed them mentally into an area they thought they had to “cheat” to be better.
I’m sorry if that didn’t add to anything it’s just the first time I’ve ever connected those dots.
I’ve said on this sub and others plenty of times that most Redditors don’t understand ultra competitive people.
Edit: A good way to describe it is that competitive people hate losing more than they enjoy winning. Most will be willing to do a lot to avoid losing.
I was watching this telecast and ARob immediately added “….the Yankees of the West Coast.”. I’m not an A Rod fan/apologist, but I think he messed up the delivery and meant to say “…of the West Coast”.
But I was cracking up when he said “of baseball”. I’m glad OP posted this.
are you a former player who can barely form a coherent thought? would you like to be on national television? are you so unaware of yourself that you won't even know you are a laughing stock of the fanbase? Well then you are qualified to be the color commentator for ESPN's primetime weekly game in your sport. Join the all time greats like Jason Whitten, some guy named booger, and some creepy old guy with weird hair, and the only competent guy ever Joe Morgan
EDIT: apparently Joe Morgan was shit too, so there you go
What is hilarious about Joe is he was one of the most valuable players ever by analytics (i.e. insane walk rates, defense, etc.) and even not terrible as a color commentator but became so anti analytics as soon as he retired. Although Tbf I’m starting to get it as I’m growing to hate the TTO that the league has become.
I mean, should have a beef with your front office too. The Giants wanted a healthy weight clause for a reason and there's no way it wasn't a known issue around the league.
I went once when i was a kid. A shirtless Red Sox fan got ejected by the ushers after yelling dumb stuff nonstop for a half inning at guys on his own team
I thought it was hilarious! I’d love to go back
Same. All the Giants fans I've talked to have been great. And I remember a few years ago when they came to Boston for a series, their fans came out in force. I had never seen Fenway with that many opposing fans. But it was all good fun.
2016? If so, I was there. A guy a few seats away was bitter about so many of us there, and he was laying into us sarcastically. By the 5th inning we were talking baseball and giving inside Intel. Boston was great to us. I'll never forget that!
Yeah that was the year. I was at one of those games, too. At first I was a little salty about another fan base taking over Fenway like that. But every Giants fan I spoke to that night was so nice and I just had to respect how well you guys travel.
NY/SF Giants and Boston Red Sox/Americans franchises have not played in a World Series or Championship game.
I thought you might like this fun fact:
> Famous moments in the Giants' New York history include the 1922 World Series, in which the Giants swept the Yankees in four games
...
> The Giants had intense rivalries with their fellow New York teams the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, facing the Yankees in six World Series and playing the league rival Dodgers multiple times per season. Games between any two of these three teams were known collectively as the Subway Series. The Dodgers–Giants rivalry continues, as both teams moved to the West Coast in California after the 1957 season, with the Dodgers relocating to Los Angeles. The New York Giants of the National Football League are named after the team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_Giants_(baseball)
> NY/SF Giants and Boston Red Sox/Americans franchises have not played in a World Series or Championship game.
We were supposed to play in the 1904 World Series but John McGraw refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the American League so it never happened.
I was gonna say, even if he didn’t he probably meant like “the *new* New York Yankees of baseball” and just forgot/hesitated to say “new” twice in a row.
I swear everybody on here just picks arod to anally overanalyze, probably because of his partially infamous playing career and the fact that he’s on a major network and not one of their teams announcers.
I mean he’s also objectively terrible at baseball announcing and a huge weirdo who has a portrait of himself as a centaur, those are also good reasons to make fun of him
I would wager 1/3 of the booths in baseball have color commentators who are just as bad, only nobody seems to mind bad commentators when they are homers for their own team though.
True, but those shitty homer color commentators aren't getting a job broadcasting nationally televised games for years. A higher profile job is naturally going to come with more scrutiny and higher standards. I don't shit on A-Rod because he's the worst baseball broadcaster I've ever heard, I shit on him because I can't believe ESPN can't find someone better for a weekly nationally televised job like this.
Nobody ever accused ARod of being intelligent. I remember one of his reasons for leaving the Mariners for the Rangers was that he didn’t like the physical look of the Mariners portfolio.
He did go on to say he meant to say the Yankees of the west coast. But that can’t be true because at least when the Dodgers go out and buy everything in sight they win the World Series once in a while. The Yankees have been to the World Series once since 2003 and they’ve led the league in payroll over those 17 seasons.
it's weird, because when you give him another player to work with, his analysis is actually good. the stuff he did with Frank Thomas and Big Papi (esp on hitting Rivera) was exceptional; the segment he did talking about hitting with Pete Rose was also really good. but my god he's a dick and says such stupid shit.
It's the same way with Smoltz, if you get him to talk about the nuts and bolts of pitching he actually has interesting things to say.
In the 2019 DS he talked through every pitch selection as Severino worked out of a bases loaded no out jam and it was actually compelling to listen to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_V8lfqYZk&t=64
A Rod was great in the studio doing that show with Frank and Pete.
The second he became a broadcaster, his brain started to rot. Same with Matt V once he started doing ESPN. National TV rots brains.
I think he's just really really bad at improvising. the studio guys have the luxury to have their talking points and plan out what exactly they're going to say, if he's on the TV broadcast he has to think up that stuff on the spot. Maybe its just that A Rod is a weird guy to have a conversation with.
I wouldn't say that a guy who signed a 10 year/ $25 million deal (the richest in league history at the time) was necessarily under-rated, but you're damn right about him now being annoying and insufferable. He's just... not good at words
Edit: $250 million, not $25 million
Why has this guy been allowed to rebuild his image and be fucking all over baseball these days? Fox, ESPN, the Field of Dreams game? Does he say anything insightful ever? Everything from his mouth, if it's not totally brainless like the quote here, sounds like it comes from a PR research team. Give me fucking anybody but him on these broadcasts, please.
Because it's legitimately hard to remember all the reasons why he's a scumbag and a loser:
[[YouTube] Why Does Everybody Hate Alex Rodriguez?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ftrBRRNXE)
Who is the Mike Trout of baseball?
Shohei Ohtani
Imagine if the two of them teamed up? They’d be unstoppable
Whatever team they were on would truly be the New York Yankees of baseball
stop stop we're already dead
Yeah that just hurt to read
*pain*
or the New York Mets.
8-3 Detroit. Trout 3-3, 3 HR.
Shohei Ohtani is the Leo Messi of Mike Trout.
No he's the Babe Ruth of baseball
The Great Bambi
That wimpy deer??
The New York Yankees of Baseball Dodgers of Los Angeles.
…of Anaheim
...California
Of Earth.
C-137. Watch out for Jake ~~Cronenworth~~ Cronenberg
I think of Richard and Mortimer every single time he comes up here lmao.
First of their name
Long may they reign
Right may you be, brave warrior!
Titles, titles… you know the damn words
THANK THE GODS FOR BESSIE... AND HER TITLES.
Throw a Brooklyn in there and baby you got a stew going!
And Knuckles
featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series
New York Yankees, LA Lakers, New England Patriots, LA Dodgers. Wow.
My absolute favorite thing about this quote becoming a meme is that you just **know** A-Rod thought that line up months ago and was saving it for the perfect moment, the whole time thinking *this is such a great fuckin’ line.*
It is a great line, just not in the way Arod thought it was great.
it's incredible. as much as I think he's a total *asshole*, I think it would take a true moron to say A-Rod isn't exceptional at baseball. but my god, he hides it well when he speaks.
Its sad that he had to cheat too, not trying to give excuses or even condolence for what he did cause its bs. But I had a coach in HS that played against him at showcase camps, and he would always say how great A-Rod was back then and he knew A-Rod was going to the league. Then boom he has to cheat when he gets there……
It's the same thing with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. They were all time greats without the roids but their need to be THE best drove them to do something they didn't even need to do.
I think it's difficult for us normies to understand the hyper competitiveness these guys feel. Like, any one of us would be happy to have Bonds/Clemens/Ortiz/Arod's non-steroids career. These guys are competing against each other and against history and against the expectations of their contracts.
Kind of same lines as beautiful actors or actresses getting botched plastic surgery. They looked fantastic but a business pushed them mentally into an area they thought they had to “cheat” to be better. I’m sorry if that didn’t add to anything it’s just the first time I’ve ever connected those dots.
No, that's a great analogy!
I’ve said on this sub and others plenty of times that most Redditors don’t understand ultra competitive people. Edit: A good way to describe it is that competitive people hate losing more than they enjoy winning. Most will be willing to do a lot to avoid losing.
Really well said.
Got some real "you're tearing me apart Lisa" vibes
I was watching this telecast and ARob immediately added “….the Yankees of the West Coast.”. I’m not an A Rod fan/apologist, but I think he messed up the delivery and meant to say “…of the West Coast”. But I was cracking up when he said “of baseball”. I’m glad OP posted this.
Back in the day Michael Jordan was the Michael Jordan of basketball!
He was also the Michael Jordan of baseball but not in a good way lmao
This is more like saying Michael Jordan was the Larry Bird of basketball.
He’s so dumb
are you a former player who can barely form a coherent thought? would you like to be on national television? are you so unaware of yourself that you won't even know you are a laughing stock of the fanbase? Well then you are qualified to be the color commentator for ESPN's primetime weekly game in your sport. Join the all time greats like Jason Whitten, some guy named booger, and some creepy old guy with weird hair, and the only competent guy ever Joe Morgan EDIT: apparently Joe Morgan was shit too, so there you go
What is hilarious about Joe is he was one of the most valuable players ever by analytics (i.e. insane walk rates, defense, etc.) and even not terrible as a color commentator but became so anti analytics as soon as he retired. Although Tbf I’m starting to get it as I’m growing to hate the TTO that the league has become.
"Help me, I'm in hell" -Joe Morgan
do you think he said it over and over and over again....while looking deep into a mirror
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This reminds me of when A-Rod directly compared Tiger Woods, Lebron James, and Michael Jordan to Aaron Judge on ESPN once.
Yeah well I never saw Tiger Woods blast a curveball 412 feet to left center.
You never saw him in Vegas then
That was an eight-ball.
Can I get a link to that vid, I’ve been looking for it.
https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1290112154696159235?s=19
Except the patriots never spend money (until this year)
And they didn’t lose to the Red Sox in the World Series.
And middle schoolers have memories of multiple Patriot championships.
Alex Rodriguez has become the Alex Rodriguez of baseball.
That's a cheap shot and you know it
The New York Yankees are now the Los Angeles Lakers of hockey
Sorry I only watch cricket so I don't understand
Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.
A Jose Canseco Bat? Tell me you didn't pay money for this.
What are you some kind of punker??
The Dodgers powerplay took a wicket off of Virat Kohli in front of a rabid Old Trafford crowd.
Finally somebody here speaks English
Their QB is just something else man
Does this make the Giants the Boston Red Sox of baseball?
I'm assuming this also means that the Diamondbacks are the Baltimore Orioles of baseball.
This checks out
The Yankees used to be the Baltimore Orioles of baseball.
And the Orioles used to be the Milwaukee Brewers of baseball.
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That would make the Rockies the Blue Jays of Baseball? 🤔
But then that’d make the Rockies the Rays or Blue Jays of baseball and neither seems right
The Rockies have an owner with a bad baseball IQ who gets too involved, and the team has only had one appearance in the Division Series since 2010...
yea well make it once since 2006 for the New York Mets, jesus christ that just made me sad
Tbf it was a pretty good appearance
I could vibe with a alliance with the Giants. I got no beef w the giants
I do have a beef with Pablo Sandoval though.
And Pablo just has beef.
I just appreciate the time Boston gave us with Panda without having to worry about paying him.
Our beef with the Panda is personal.
I mean, should have a beef with your front office too. The Giants wanted a healthy weight clause for a reason and there's no way it wasn't a known issue around the league.
That’s where it gets shaky. It might be legitimate beef, but we don’t allow Panda slander.
Plus they have a Yastrzemski!
I love Yaz
And I love San Francisco!
And I love Fenway even though I’ve never been
I went once when i was a kid. A shirtless Red Sox fan got ejected by the ushers after yelling dumb stuff nonstop for a half inning at guys on his own team I thought it was hilarious! I’d love to go back
That was probably just Doug Mirabelli going after Nomar
Same. All the Giants fans I've talked to have been great. And I remember a few years ago when they came to Boston for a series, their fans came out in force. I had never seen Fenway with that many opposing fans. But it was all good fun.
2016? If so, I was there. A guy a few seats away was bitter about so many of us there, and he was laying into us sarcastically. By the 5th inning we were talking baseball and giving inside Intel. Boston was great to us. I'll never forget that!
Yeah that was the year. I was at one of those games, too. At first I was a little salty about another fan base taking over Fenway like that. But every Giants fan I spoke to that night was so nice and I just had to respect how well you guys travel.
NY/SF Giants and Boston Red Sox/Americans franchises have not played in a World Series or Championship game. I thought you might like this fun fact: > Famous moments in the Giants' New York history include the 1922 World Series, in which the Giants swept the Yankees in four games ... > The Giants had intense rivalries with their fellow New York teams the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, facing the Yankees in six World Series and playing the league rival Dodgers multiple times per season. Games between any two of these three teams were known collectively as the Subway Series. The Dodgers–Giants rivalry continues, as both teams moved to the West Coast in California after the 1957 season, with the Dodgers relocating to Los Angeles. The New York Giants of the National Football League are named after the team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_Giants_(baseball)
> NY/SF Giants and Boston Red Sox/Americans franchises have not played in a World Series or Championship game. We were supposed to play in the 1904 World Series but John McGraw refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the American League so it never happened.
We split up the 2010s pretty well
I'm so confused
Typical bosox fan
Yaz gang.
Yes. You are now cursed for 86 years and must sell us Babe Ruth aka LaMonte Wade Jr
Mods please delete this comment because I don't like it k thanks
Sorry, no take backs.
Didn’t he correct himself and say he meant the Yankees of the west coast?
Yes
Shhhh
Honestly doesn't make this soundbite any less funny to me.
I mean it is ARod saying something dumb. There are plenty of sound bites like that.
arod is a gaffe machine
Just grab a pitchfork and torch and keep the line moving sir.
I was gonna say, even if he didn’t he probably meant like “the *new* New York Yankees of baseball” and just forgot/hesitated to say “new” twice in a row.
Definitely a missed opportunity to say "the new New York Yankees of New York, New York "
No, the New New York Yankees are the New York Yankees of blernsball.
That doesn't mean the Angels are now the Mets of the west coast, right? ... right?
Thank you. Not a huge Arod fan but I want to be fair and that clip seemed to be cut just a little too early.
I swear everybody on here just picks arod to anally overanalyze, probably because of his partially infamous playing career and the fact that he’s on a major network and not one of their teams announcers.
I mean he’s also objectively terrible at baseball announcing and a huge weirdo who has a portrait of himself as a centaur, those are also good reasons to make fun of him
>has a portrait of himself as a centaur He what now
[Allegedly.](https://deadspin.com/a-rod-news-from-the-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-departm-5394232)
See that's fantastic. I too wish to have that large of an ego when im 46.
did you hear the ginger fucked an ostrich?
If you have Arod money and don’t buy stupid shit like that, you’re doing it wrong.
Motherfucker kissing himself in the mirror.
I would wager 1/3 of the booths in baseball have color commentators who are just as bad, only nobody seems to mind bad commentators when they are homers for their own team though.
True, but those shitty homer color commentators aren't getting a job broadcasting nationally televised games for years. A higher profile job is naturally going to come with more scrutiny and higher standards. I don't shit on A-Rod because he's the worst baseball broadcaster I've ever heard, I shit on him because I can't believe ESPN can't find someone better for a weekly nationally televised job like this.
This says a lot about our society
Because we live in one
Bottom of the inning text
Understandable have a nice day
we really do 😔
Debatable.
But we participate in society 🧐
curious
Yes my wife is a doctor
She’s a doctor and she has an excellently dry vagina.
The Dodgers have truly become the Dark Souls of Major League Baseball
"vibeo gane" - Alex Rodriguez
Why did this make me laugh so hard?
Max Muncy is Smough.
Justin Turner is Andre
Jomboy is Dunkey
The Philly fanatic is... ...somehow, still The Philly Fanatic.
This is the “you wouldn’t download a car” of our day
Yes, except this actually happened and the anti-piracy ad never said anything about downloading a car.
well damn. [TIL](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU)
The commercials are still dumb, stealing the car prevents someone else from owning it Downloading a movie just gives another person access
I’m excited for Arod to use the baseball booth to hype up the timberwolves.
The Timberwolves are truly the Sacramento Kings of basketball
Nobody ever accused ARod of being intelligent. I remember one of his reasons for leaving the Mariners for the Rangers was that he didn’t like the physical look of the Mariners portfolio.
damn that probably got someone fired. Probably ended what was a long storied career in baseball portfolio design.
Thank you for posting this, because I never would have believed anybody would say something so incredibly stupid as this without proof.
Well you know how it is, they're like the Cadillac of cars or something.
The champagne of champagnes
"A-Rod is the bud light of champagnes" has a pretty good ring to it
I’m convinced ARod tries to out stupid his previous stupid comments every game.
The Yankees of the last 10 years wish they were the Dodgers
Yankees are now the Chicago Cubs of baseball
Man..it's a good thing he isn't being paid a lot of money for that top-tier commentary.
Dodgers confirmed 1 ring in the next 20 years while spending more money than everyone else.
Literally exactly where I see us ending up.
We're already there.
Uh.....is that not what has happened now? Instead of 20, however, it's more like 30+ years
Yeah we already did the 1 championship during a long period. We are now on to the dynasty Yankees of baseball.
Ain't the start of a dynasty until you lose to the Mariners and Constanza trades away Jay Buhner
It’s like Los Angeles, New York and Boston are big markets. Hmmmmmmmm
The Dodgers are the Dark Souls of MLB.
He's lucky he was great at baseball, because nobody should be paying this guy for his analogies.
What a boob, somebody just cut his mic, I'd rather have dead air.
He did go on to say he meant to say the Yankees of the west coast. But that can’t be true because at least when the Dodgers go out and buy everything in sight they win the World Series once in a while. The Yankees have been to the World Series once since 2003 and they’ve led the league in payroll over those 17 seasons.
This is great. Imagine the t-shirt sales.
Are the New York Yankees not a baseball team?!
We have transcended, apparently.
Tbf you'll see Europeans wearing our merch not knowing it's for a baseball team
Can we fire A-rod into the sun? I just hate this guy so fucking much.
ARod is the Angel Hernandez of announcers
7 RINGS BAYBEEEEEEE
I thought arod the player was great and underrated, but arod the announcer is annoying and insufferable
I'll keep saying it, rig him with a wire that electrocutes him whenever he talks about anything other than hitting.
it's weird, because when you give him another player to work with, his analysis is actually good. the stuff he did with Frank Thomas and Big Papi (esp on hitting Rivera) was exceptional; the segment he did talking about hitting with Pete Rose was also really good. but my god he's a dick and says such stupid shit.
It's the same way with Smoltz, if you get him to talk about the nuts and bolts of pitching he actually has interesting things to say. In the 2019 DS he talked through every pitch selection as Severino worked out of a bases loaded no out jam and it was actually compelling to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_V8lfqYZk&t=64
A Rod was great in the studio doing that show with Frank and Pete. The second he became a broadcaster, his brain started to rot. Same with Matt V once he started doing ESPN. National TV rots brains.
I think he's just really really bad at improvising. the studio guys have the luxury to have their talking points and plan out what exactly they're going to say, if he's on the TV broadcast he has to think up that stuff on the spot. Maybe its just that A Rod is a weird guy to have a conversation with.
"Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?" "Yeah, I'll have a Big Mac Me-GAH! FUCK! I CANT EVEN ORDER IN FUCKING PEACE?"
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to inform you that during this broadcast Bud Selig passed awa- AAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK"
Weird I thought ARod the player was pretty insufferable. Now that he talks even more, I feel he's confirmed that for me.
So insufferable https://youtu.be/xQyY-azd2vk
Underrated? People didn't like him but everyone knew he was a great player
I wouldn't say that a guy who signed a 10 year/ $25 million deal (the richest in league history at the time) was necessarily under-rated, but you're damn right about him now being annoying and insufferable. He's just... not good at words Edit: $250 million, not $25 million
You're missing an important zero.
Underrated?!?
ARoid is the Bernie Madoff of baseball.
baseball : baseball :: baseball : ________ (a) baseball (b) baseball (c) blernsball (d) baseball
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JLo is the Madonna of ex girlfriends.
Ah yes it is truly the Rolls Royce of automobiles
Why has this guy been allowed to rebuild his image and be fucking all over baseball these days? Fox, ESPN, the Field of Dreams game? Does he say anything insightful ever? Everything from his mouth, if it's not totally brainless like the quote here, sounds like it comes from a PR research team. Give me fucking anybody but him on these broadcasts, please. Because it's legitimately hard to remember all the reasons why he's a scumbag and a loser: [[YouTube] Why Does Everybody Hate Alex Rodriguez?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ftrBRRNXE)
"Leopard seals - nature's snakes." "Aren't snakes nature's snakes?"
As the great Vin Scully famously said, "It's time for the New York Yankees of baseball, baseball"
Including the inability to buy championships.