riveraveblues.com - 6/26/2009
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Yesterday, Buster Olney wrote a premature obituary of sorts for A-Rod . Noting that A-Rod ’s numbers are way down this year, Olney speculated that the post-steroid-confession, post-surgery A-Rod isn’t anything close to the late-20’s A-Rod of five or six years ago.
With a ...
yankees.gearupforsports.com - 6/26/2009
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yankees.gearupforsports.com —
Well it looks as if the Yankees may
have finally found their bats…again. The past two nights
have been a sincere joy to watch (sans Pettitte last night), and I feel that the confidence may be building like the over zealous arrogance of first place Red Sox fans. It has seemed like a ...
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YANKS Try to Get Something Started
sports.espn.go.com - 6/27/2009
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sports.espn.go.com —
Alex Rodriguez hit his 564th home run to
pass Reggie Jackson on the career list, three errors
by Mets infielders led to a four-run second inning and CC Sabathia pitched the Yankees to a 9-1 win Friday night in the first Subway Series game at Citi Field.
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A-Rod passes Jackson on HR list; Yankees win
downswinging.com - 6/26/2009
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downswinging.com —
Yesterday, the topic of ESPN’s Buster Olney’s blog/column
was A-Rod and his struggles since returning from surgery.
Olney said that A-Rod has been taking longer to reach first base, has been fielding poorly and isn’t catching up to fastballs. True, at the time Olney was ...
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Too Early for Olney to Say A-Rod is Done
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Bracing For Eight Years Of Questions
The Yankee Universe —
... are asking, about whether A-Rod without steroids is, in his mid-30s, destined to be a shell of what he was in his mid-20s, when he says he was young and stupid and juicing. But there really isn’t much point in the Yankees’ dwelling on any of that, because they cannot change the terms of his contract, they cannot ever know how much of A-Rod’s success was built on his talent and how much was predicated on his PED use.
And here is the portion of Ben’s take that echoes my thinking on the matter:
In reality, A-Rod’s ...
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> ATLANTA -- Reggie Jackson hopes Alex Rodriguez tying him for 11th place on the all-time home-run list last night helps get the Yankees' cleanup hitter going. "I am glad to see him tie it," Jackson said of his 563 homer mark. "Maybe it ...
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