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The timing could have been better for Alex Rodriguez, who sat down for a soul-searching interview with the New York Daily News on the same day that Jose Canseco was touting a new book, claiming that A-Rod took steroids. That publicity could have been used for damage control! At any rate, A-Rod tells columnist John Harper that he wishes he would have signed with the Mets instead of the Rangers, and that his opt out/opt-back-in drama with the Yankees was due in part to his daughter's fondness for her toys.
"My wife and daughter both love New York," said A-Rod. "Four days after I opted out (and was living in Miami), my daughter says, 'I really miss my bedroom and my toys in New York.' I wanted to shoot myself. I said to my wife, 'What the —- are we doing?' "
Hey, that's as good a reason as any! More A-Rod wisdom:
"I went for the contract when my true desire was to go play for the Mets," Rodriguez said of his decision to ink his $252 million deal with Texas eight years ago. As A-Rod looked back on the events of the past offseason, he seemed haunted by the idea that in breaking free of the Yankees he could have made another decision based strictly on money and wound up as unhappy as he was in Texas for three years. ... "So to make the right decision just feels really good," Rodriguez said, "versus being taken down a road where I'm like, 'Oh, my God, where am I? Oh, $400 million to play in some place I hate? Great, I'll blow my —- head off.'
You see, Alex Rodriguez just wants to be loved. And that is sure to happen in New York, the only place where you can hit .314 with 54 homers and still be burned in effigy.
Well, if this steroids thing gets too hot, maybe he can play in Toronto.
A-Rod Regrets Saying No To Mets, Doesn't Make Same Mistake With Yankees [New York Daily News]
A-Rod Hates Him Some Texas [Deuce Of Davenport]
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A-Rod.
Dominating Deadspin since 2006.
Guy sure has a strange fixation on offing himself.
I am sure Mike Piazza would have loved playing with you.
he's hitting 1.000 in suicide references
This kind of honestly will surely endear him to Yankees fans once and for all.
"$400 million to play in some place that I hate? Great, I'll blow my --- head off."
You should read the rest of the interview, where he learns the true meaning of Christmas.
Its "Dredge Up Bad Mets Moves" day here on Deadspin.
Why not just post a story about Scott Kazmir really really wishing he was still a Met, and kick me in the junk already.
A-Rod also expressed his regret for choosing baseball over his preferred career path: pegboy.
his opt out/opt-back-in drama with the Yankees was due in part to his daughter's fondness for her toys.
And Salomon Torres went to Milwaukee because his daughters love the sausage.
A-Rod missed all his toys in New York too. Butt plugs are surprisingly hard to find in Miami.
Oddly enough, he had nothing but high hopes for the upcoming season in his interview with Self-Inflicted Death Quarterly.
@DeepFriar: I'm counting down the seconds to the next post involving Amos Otis.
Donnie Moore, Charlie Shoemaker and Virgil Stallcup would like to speak with A-Rod
@DeepFriar: Mo Vaughn is still available, as long as he can use a bullpen cart to get to first base.
SHOTY 08 nominees coming fast and furious today.
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/every Mets fan reading this thing.
what KIND of toys?
I could totally buy that story if it was some really cool legos.
@Forced Entry: just wait until he forgets to load the gun in the playoffs
That's one morbid mexican dude. Am I right people?
@Peter Cavan: Mo dropped over $20,000 in one night at the Foxy Lady, that made him alright in my book.
Oh, $400 million to play in some place I hate? Great, I'll blow my --- head off.'
Kurt Cobain had the same reasoning.
If the Mets had signed A-Rod in 2000, you'd best believe that either David Wright or Jose Reyes would have been traded away by now. Be careful what you wish for.
$400 million and he'd want to shoot himself?
Way to make nice with the fans, Slappy.
@DeepFriar: Next up is a post about David Cone's junk in the bullpen.
BOI JOO KNOW JOO WANNA SEE ARAH PLAY IN FLUSHING
Like anybody was going to offer $400 mil to this douchebag.
@Turkeyleg: Instead we went out and signed Kaz Matsui to play shortstop, and moved Reyes to second...
That worked out well.
Someone needs to pull together $400 million and give it to A-Rod, here's lookin at you Florida Marlins...
And that is sure to happen in New York, the only place where you can hit .314 with 54 homers and still be burned in effigy.
A-Rod never figured it out. You need Mickey Mantle's liver functions to truly be loved in NY.
I'm parroting back here something I read somewhere once, but I think it bears repeating:
A-Rod's biggest problem with the Rangers contract is that it made him not only the highest paid player in the game, it did so in such a way that no one could touch the amount of money he was making. Non-fans and casual fans would hear $252 million and think that no person is worth that for playing a game, and fans would wonder if he was really worth it. He was the lightning rod for the economics of the game, providing cover for other players who lacked the same statistical backing to make large sums of money without becoming public enemy #1. No one came along and knocked him off the highest paid perch, they just knew he was making $252 million on this contract and he was the highest paid player in the game. Tom Hicks so blew the salary structure that it made A-Rod a long-term target.
No one can insert his foot in his mouth quite like A-Rod.
@Clare: he was confused and thought Flushing was a certain kind of sex act
@DeepFriar: That was just because it was 10-cent wing night.
@Turkeyleg: Or, David Wright would have been moved to first base a lot earlier than he eventually will
@Jews For Purple Jesus: Yankee fans have been the same for years. Idolize one player, boo second player.. Examples
Jeter > AROD
Mantle> Maris
DiMaggio>Mantle
Munson>Reggie
@kayceebk: ahem... thats gold glove David Wright to you sir! Didnt say anything about arm though.
@Yostal: The things he says doesn't help. He is completely oblivious to the magnitude of the money he's earning and what it means to everyday people. It's almost Jed Clampett-ish.
@crazyjoedavola: Roberto Kelly > Mel Hall
'Oh, my God, where am I? Oh, $400 million to play in some place I hate? Great, I'll blow Derek Jeter's head off.
/Sox fan-ized
@Ray: His therapist just loves this shit. I bet he's commenting in here somewhere.
$400 million would make him suicidal?
No wonder everyone hates this guy.
@crazyjoedavola: The glove and arm looked mighty,mighty fine when I went to St. Lucie a couple weeks ago
. . . for Santana's first appearance in a Mets uni.
He gave me a baseball at Spring Training. I like him now.
What'd they have to bleep out there? Gosh-darn? Gee-whillikers?
Incidentally, $25.2 million a year is $48 a minute. In your sleep.
god i wish he had signed with the mets
when he opted out i hoped he went to Boston or Mets
@Ray: Ironically, I've been dreaming about offing him since he spurned the Mets too.
To paraphrase an old Tank McNamara, Scott Boras to A-Rod: are you aware what 5% of your daughter's toys is?
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