The first thing that jumped out at me when I saw that Cory Lidle of the New York Yankees flew his plane into an apartment building today was "This is Alex Rodriguez's fault."
Anyone in New York, or even any Yankee fan, which I am neither, can see that this is plainly obvious. Consider this article on MLB.com. Everyone in the media seems to agree - it's not entirely his fault that the Yankees could only win one game against a team who the week before dropped three to the Royals and blew their division lead. But it seems like every time a journalist makes that point we read into it a little bit of a caveat. "Again, Rodriguez was not the reason that the Yankees lost this series... But there's no hiding the fact that Rodriguez is in a big time slump in the postseason." Even A-Rod admits it:
"Well, I think I certainly have to do well for this team to win. That's it,"
He didn't do well. They didn't win. His fault.
Using his logic, and most of NYC's logic, if A-Rod wouldn't have went 1-14, if he hadn't struck out four times, if he hadn't commited a throwing error, if he would have just played better, the Yanks would have won the series and be working on the A's right now.
And Cory Lidle wouldn't have had any reason to fly home today, which MLB.com reports that he was more than likely doing, because that would just be rediculous to do in the middle of the ALCS.
A-Rod - you've already ruined New York's chances at that elusive 27th World Championship, and now you have to go and do something like this. That's cold, dude. Really cold.
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