nypost.com - 9/11/2007
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September 11, 2007 -- TORONTO - It ' s always something more than what you see looking at Alex Rodriguez. There is never just one issue when baseball ' s best player is in the picture. He has hoisted the Yankees on his shoulders and delivered them to October ' s doorstep. Only the month has been very cruel to Rodriguez in pinstripes. After three years of getting his ears blistered with boos at ...
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Baseball Today: Tuesday, September 11
Projo Sox Blog —
... OCTOBER MEMORIES: According to Doug Mientkiewicz, his current teammate on the Yankees and a high school teammate way back when, Alex Rodriguez' legendary season is being fueled not by the spectre of impending free agency and the riches that await, but by the embarrassment of his playoff pratfall last year. (New York Post) ...
Hey, it's almost October!
New York Yankees Fan Blog —
... . George King (via Doug Mientkiewicz) echoes Pete Abraham's column today, and notes that Alex Rodriguez's big year has been fueled by his disappointing 2006 ALDS performance when he went .071 (1-for-14). Mientkiewicz, a high school teammate of Alex's, is quoted, "He remembers a lot. He remembers the feeling he had last year. He pushed so hard to do this because he never forgot the last year and how he finished.'' As much as A-Rod uses that to motivate himself -- and we've been big A-Rod believers all along, so we say this begrudgingly -- Alex's other-worldy regular season statistics will get thrown out the window by a lot of people (no, not us) if he has another 1-for-14 performance in the postseason. Seriously, the amount of print devoted to A-Rod today is -- while he's admittedly deserving given that he's won yet another ...
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