Many of us love sports. Many of us have opinions about sports and athletes and frankly some of those opinions can be very strong and in many cases wrong. Well I am no different. Please read on and you will see what I mean.
Dear AROD,
First of all before I congratulate you on being part of the NY Yankees 27th championship I need to apologize. I have said for many years that you would NEVER win a World Series ring. I had truly believed that you were a special player in April thru September but on the highest stage against the best teams your performance was less than stellar. I had also believed you were a selfish ballplayer and a person that didn’t make teammates better. Well I couldn’t have been any more wrong. Yes you had an amazing regular season and performed at the highest level, but that continued in the playoffs and frankly without YOUR performance, the NY Yankees probably wouldn’t have won the World Series.
I must also say that I grew up in Boston, love the Red Sox and dislike the NY Yankees. So for me to write this was very difficult.
I wish you only the best in the off season and a speedy recovery if you have surgery.
Merrill
Well I did it. For years I have been bashing AROD and now feel a little better apologizing to him. I realize that he will never read this blog but I still wanted to apologize.
- Is there someone that you have bashed that you would like to apologize to?
- What would you say to that person?
- Have you shared your new opinion on that person with your friends?
I look forward to reading your comments.
Jeremy Bromberg says:
As documented on these pages, I’m a lifelong (so far) Yankees fan, and I still don’t like him.
But I’m pretty happy about the Granderson pickup.
Your apology was very sweet. I got weepy.
Ed Sugar says:
Dear Tony LaRussa -
I need to publicly apologize for all the slights I have given you over the years. Up until the end of the 2006 season I thought you had to be the most overrated manager in baseball history. Yes, prior to 2006, you had won a title with the A’s in t 1989, but let’s face it, with a lineup that included Jose Canesco, Mark McGwire, Rickey & Dave Henderson, Bob Welch, Terry Steinbach, Dave Stewart and Dennis Eckersley, you and your teams should have done better than 1-8 in the 88′ and 90′ Fall Classics. And in 2004, you continued to show a lack of post-season managerial skill by dropping 4 straight to the Chowds. Let’s face it a 5-12 record in the WS is not a free ticket to Cooperstown.
But in 2006, you and Dave Duncan took a team with one superstar, Albert Puljos and created a World Champion team. Since then with a limited budget, you have kept the Cardinals in the post-season hunt by rebuilding your pitching staff each season and developing some very good young players (Ryan Ludwick, Skip Schumaker, Ryan Franklin, Adam Wainwright to name just a few) and you have to be given some credit for one of baseball’s best comeback stories in Rick Ankiel.
No doubt in this Dodger fan’s mind, Mr. LaRussa, you are destined for Cooperstown.
chris hauck says:
Dear Merrill Dubrow
Please accept my apology. I was recently thinking of giving you a swift kick in the pants for apologizing to someone who gets to have sex with Kate Hudson, makes ungodly money for playing baseball (something most of us would give a body part to do) and has obviously been using some kind of performance enhancing drug to bulk up about 100 pds since he entered the league. So sorry!
Willie Martin says:
Dear Santa,
Yes even to you the man who represents many things to many people I must give give this momentary encomium. Over the years I have been the Easter Bunny and even a Leprechaun to appease the people on a given holiday. The amount of unconditional love given back was seven fold.
One week ago it was suggested by a friend of mine that I dress up as Santa and walk around downtown Dallas as well as bartend a private party. I was even given a costume to wear.
I quickly learned that you represent many things to many people. Children love you for the goods you bring for good behavior. Guys want to high-five you for being cool, and women just want to sit on your lap and whisper sweet nothings.
Knowing all too well how tough a gig you have for one day of the year, I discovered something I didn’t consider before…
Just like baseball, what is great about you is that you aren’t any one thing but rather many things. You are who you are, but what you represent goes far deeper. Hope for the less fortunate, a symbol for the holiday, a litmus test for the moral fiber one should strive for in life, and most importantly, you keep beards and long hair for the elderly kind of cool.
For the six hours that I wore your itinerary, I could not get mad or angry. For six hours I gladly walked the streets of downtown Dallas and took photographs and smiled broadly. It was then that I realize how selfless you are…
For all the years that I unwittingly referred to you as nothing more than a symbol for commercialism, greed, and animal abuse, I now recognize the error of my way. I apologize Santa Claus, and now tell you that in ten days (and hereafter) keep doing what you do!
Merry Christmas everyone…
leslie says:
we never stopped being A Rod fans, even as he left Seattle. Charlie happily wore his shirt about every day in pre school and loved his book for kids re: his upbringing and struggles growing up w/out a dad.