When I was a kid I hated Barry, but now I feel both he and A-rod were just scapegoats for the MLBs steroid issues. The game should celebrate what an incredible player Bonds was
@@coachleif Barry would be a lot more celebrated if he hadn’t broken the Aaron record. I think a lot of people, myself included, feel like the home run record and Roger Clemens 7 Cy Young’s, both don’t feel totally legitimate.
I'm South African, I don't watch American sports. I know absolutely nothing about baseball. This jusf popped up in my recommended. There have been some proper scumbags all over the world in sports we play. But holy shit this guy is a disgrace, a grade prick. I'm surprised he was allowed to get away with so much bs.
Jay Buhner smashing his tacos with a baseball bat and making him clean it up while berating him, and his teammates calling him "Bitch Tits" made me laugh hard.
@Blank Comment eh, anecdotal evidence in terms of his character. I think we tend to over regard great character in players until they do one thing wrong and then the tune is changed. The dude tried to kill himself with essentially liver poisoning at 18. I've had guys like Dusty Baker snap at me for an autograph when I was 8 years old and he is one of the most universally beloved managers in the sport. Not to disparage your experiences but it does bum me out when one incident some does have completely eclipses their perception of someone, derailing everything else.
@Blank Comment he wasn’t a typical superstar, maybe he had a bad day. But this was the type of guy to put a cow in Lou pinellas office and drive across the country the night after a bad loss (when he had a game the next day) needless to say he was a different kind of superstar
@@futuregohan4837 why the hell are you capitalizing EVERY WORD IN YOUR SENTENCE? You only have to do that for titles. Like if you’re saying the title of a movie, you capitalize the words. You really don’t need to do that, it makes things harder to read.
Donating only $5,000 of the over $400,000 your charity raised is way more scandalous than testing positive for stimulants. So scummy. This is an incredible video essay.
But Donald Trump took all the money donated to his charity and spent it all on himself and lots of people love him. Plus Trump was a billionaire. He is white too.
@@abrahamterry9445 Not political I am just using Trump as a comparison because he is the only one I knew of before now that spent all the donations to his charitable fun on himself. He is loved and Alex is not. The only difference I can see is skin color and the fact that Alex earned his money. Maybe people hate Alex because he earned his money.
When I worked in the tunnels and on the field for an MLB team, I remember being told that if I see him, do NOT hold doors for him. I was specifically told that if he comes up the tunnel into the clubhouse in a group of other players, I was to let the door go and let him get his own damn door. He was notorious for looking away from staff who extended him courtesies, so they no longer wanted to treat him with courtesy.
Yeah he’s a narcissist to the core. It’s not a nice thing to be discourteous to someone, but when someone shows a pattern of blatant disrespect, you have to cut them off. Show no emotion. That kinda guy feeds off the drama.
BS. That would get everyone involved fired if their was that type of coordinated effort to mess with a celebrity athlete with his status. If you are going to say that everyone just kept it a secret, that is BS too, because most new employees who were told to do this would question it to a higher authority because if told to do this by a co-worker, it would sound like a prank with the intention to get someone fired. There i no way a MLB organization paying him millions of dollars a year are going to let him be punked by the guys being paid minimum wage to hold open doors.
Seriously. The amount of drama Arod went through during his career is INSANE. I wish the vid could have been 10 minutes just too much stuff not to talk about. And honestly the most impressive thing about Arod is how he put up some of the best numbers in history while he was constantly dealing with scandal after scandal.... say what you want about Arod 99.9% of humans cant do that
@@johnnytwotimes7854 that one actually kinda makes feel bad, he was def gonna retire anyway after he broke the record and could have at least reached a great milestone despite everything else.
As a lifelong Mariners fan, I can still vividly remember as a little kid going to a home game against Texas right after he was traded, and I still to this day have never heard anyone in pro sports booed that loudly in my life. I was 10 years old, Safeco field was completely packed for those Texas games just so everyone could have a chance to boo him personally.
I was there too. It was deafening. When Griffey came back in his first game after he left, he got a standing ovation that must've lasted 10 minutes. He teared up over it.
Oh lord, Ichiro's first game where he threw A-Rod out from all the way out in right field as he was going to 3rd was _so, so satisfying for Mariners fans to see._
So weird how a team can lose Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr and Alex Rodriguez in the span of about 5 years... And then immediately have their best season ever!! LOL
The fact that no team thought it was worth the extra money in ticket sales to try to push A Rod over 700 homers shows you just how bad his rep was around the league at the end.
They did? ARod has been pretty clear that multiple teams approached him but he wanted to retire as a Yankee. If you’re gonna hate on ARod at least be accurate
He’s that energy you had with Jose cause this Alex train don’t stop manfreds hell bent on taking my steroids you try to ban him I guess that’s what you do when you can’t beat him and coming to Yankees stadium in my jeter jersey new song fuck arod
Except that everybody knows when it came to #s Arod was a goat. Now arroyo on the other hand 😴.. and i can careless for either one of them since they dont do anything for me. But facts are facts.
The problem for Seattle fans wasn't the money, it was him stating "I don't care about money, I want to go to a winner." Then he immediately went in division to a last place team
ARod is most remembered as a Yankee. & It's quite poetic how as much as their personalities clashed, both ARod & Jeter represent New York culture, as a whole. Jeter, the humble guy who didn't allow the lights and cameras to define him as a player or person. And ARod, who in a sense was made for the big city & bright lights. It's like a Hollywood film in real life.
Yeah but why don't we feel the same way about Paul O'Neil Derek Jeter Tino Martinez Bernie Williams Don Mattingly the rest of the legends? When A Rod is mentioned the feel isn't the same. Nobody associates him with the high regard of being a Yankee or New York. They think steroids.. And lying.
Here was the Mariners middle of the order in '96... ARod - .358 BA, 36 HR, 123 RBI Griffey - .303 BA, 49 HR, 140 RBI Buhner - .271 BA, 44 HR, 138 RBI Martinez - .327 BA, 26 HR, 103 RBI In case you were wondering why the Mariners didn't make the post-season - that's because Sterling Hitchcock was their ace that season
As a Red Sox fan since literally the day I was born, I can confidently say... The ARod/Manny deal falling through was the greatest thing that has ever happened to the franchise...
Oh man I'm with you. I would've hated to have to cheer for a rod. And not to mention I doubt we even break the curse with him. That's exactly the kind of thing the previous owners would have done and we'd be sitting here at 104 years without a title.
i am Irish. i am a Sports-fanatic but I know very little about Baseball. however, i am addicted to these videos man . unbelievable stuff- very deep. extremely packed with information and edited to perfection. 10/10 from me Thanks
There is a framed picture of Jason Varitek mushing A-Rod in the face hanging proudly on the wall at my local bar. This image is a holy icon in New England (except Connecticut).
We’d boo him with the whole Safeco Field crowd whenever he came back to Seattle in a Texas Rangers uniform or the one time a year the Yankees would roll into town.
@@purplenurple9148 ummm when you spend all your money on one player... it kinda is. Baseball has this thing called a line up, and you 9 players to make a field team
@@Robert53area then that is your general managers fault for making him the offer. You said it yourself, you can’t expect Arod to single handedly win championships without a team around him. He did well enough there.
As Much as people hated A-Rod...he was so good for baseball. He fit the Villain narrative and he made the game entertaining to watch him throughout his career. Great Video!
Yeah but he should have accepted it. He should have acted like a douche all the time and not be a lovey dovey guy. Carlos Correa should have done the same this year.
@@jacobredmond4127 if he just accepted it you wouldn’t have hated him nearly as much and it wouldn’t have been the same. He played his role perfectly, and is playing his after baseball role even better
As a Yankee fan I can say there was nothing entertaining about watching this guy lie and make himself look like a jackass over and over and over again. Never understood the Alex Rodriguez trade and I never will. Just like I will never understand why the Yankees traded for Giancarlo Stanton or who I like to call A-Rod 2.0
thats why maintaining a decent image matters. Being slow to anger matters. Being soft spoken, well spoken matters. It can literally lessen your consequences and bad reputation. Handeling yourself professionally matters. Same with Tigger Woods....
@@simplymarvelous7255 so many people think steroids are like this wonder drug that transform you into a good player.... A shitty player on steroids is still a shitty player^^ and a good player is a good player wether he is on roids or not.
One of the great lines about A-rod, came from Joe Torrie, when asked why he batted Alex, eight, in a post season game. Torrie, allegedly, answered, "Because I couldn't bat him tenth."
Probably my fondest memory as a Sox fan is watching Mike Lowell put his shoulder down as he ran into third and 100% intentionally ran A-Rod the fuck over. I've never been able to find a clip of it online, but I'll never forget it.
@@iblnxyi4818 Whatever year it was that had the controversy when A-Rod was running the bases and the infielder went to catch a pop fly, and A-Rod shouted something akin to "I got it!", which saw the ball not getting caught. Probably 2006 or 2007, if I recall correctly, and probably sometime in the summer.
5:40 -- And the reason he lost that 1996 MVP was because both Seattle writers (the ones who vote for these awards) gave their first place votes to Griffey. Did I forget to mention how super amazing I thought it would've been back in the day if they did a baseball themed Space Jam sequel starring Ken Griffey, Jr? The player of the 90s?
Striker92 this is the exact game I was thinking of he literally talked about it all inning and then after the break takes about it when they weren’t even at the plate anymore. Talking about how “selfish” it was. Bitch please
I remember when A-Rod was with the Rangers, my sister and I got some Rangers posters for our rooms. Hers had A-Rod and "Pudge" posing together. It said something like "A-Rod and I-Rod". Years later when we got older and found out more about A-Rod she quietly went into her room and took the poster down. No idea where it went after that.
In 1998 I was 14 years old and was in Denver for the All Star Game. My friends and I attended a Nike Training camp for kids aged 8-14 to go work on our game for the day. Unbeknownst to anyone, A-Rod made a surprise appearance. He was classy, told us to stay in school, treat our family with respect, and to work hard. He stayed and talked with us for what felt like hours (probably 2, keep in mind I was 14). The internet and phones weren't what they are now. Zero cameras, zero publicity, zero reason to be there other than to hang out with us and inspire us to be better people. This also happened to be the same day as the actual All Star Game. Ironically, it was the same year Junior refused multiple times to be a part of the Home Run Derby in Denver citing travel exhaustion. He the changed his mind the day of, won the title, and the city of Denver booed him the entire day lolol. While I can't vouch for all the crap A-Rod has done, that afternoon hanging out with him and my friends was one of my favorite baseball memories as a kid. Baffles me to this day how this guy and the guy that afternoon are the same person.
Jay Buhner was a nuclear-grade asshole, but he was our nuclear-grade asshole. I think if he'd done it to almost anyone else I'd agree with you, but... it was A-rod, you know? That makes it funny to me.
My most fond memory of a-rod and Yankees was watching them lose in the alcs in 2004 up 3-0 me and my dad weren't big redsocks fans but that series we were. Spending time with my dad watching the games on our living room couch in is still one of my best memories. It was so fun to me. And also the 2003 Florida marlins WS win over the yanks that's a fond memory also
The two things I specifically remember about Arod in that series was that stunt he tried to pull in game 6 and then him whining like a little you know what when he got caught (not to mention the oh so classy reaction from Yanks fans) and looking like he was about to cry when the Sox got the last out in game 7
I'm the same. I'm no fan of the Red Sox, but I can tell you that pretty much everyone in America outside of NYC was a Red Sox fan that season. (I think it's also cool that Dave Roberts, who started the 0-3 comeback, later coached the Dodgers, which is my team). However, after that, I got sick of the Red Sox pretty quickly.
@Lighthouse in the Storm who gives a shit? he doesn't deserve to be there. there are loads of other players would would do at least as good a job who didn't disgrace the game.
Him and J Lo we’re literally perfect for one another. Washed up damaged goods with incredible egos who no good person would actually want to deal with. Wish it worked out for us all.
Sure seems like a lot of people are still working with j lo and a rod while a rod is making even more money away from baseball lmaooo I think it all worked out amazing for him
As a mariners fan I am sad that I haven't discovered this channel sooner, you sold me on the rumors of A-rod having centaur pics of himself in his bedroom.
From watching all these vids it is confirmed baseball is the private school of major sports. Structured, good morals, awesome curriculum, but very naughty students.🤣
I followed the Yankees throughout the early-mid 2000s, and I remember a few things clearly: 1. Being mad that they traded away Alfonso Soriano. 2. A-Rod consistently choking on the plate when it came to big at-bats. 3. Gary Sheffield being the exact opposite and constantly crushing balls to left field when the Yankees needed him most.
It's actually funny the parallel between Anakin Skywalker "The chosen one" and AROD. All the potential to be the hero, but chose the darkside in the end.
He sued the MLPA alleging that his player rep didn't do his absolute best to represent him in his suspension case. The guy in question couldn't defend himself because he had died of brain cancer which he knew he had beforehand and still spent a good portion of his last days alive trying to help Alex Rodriguez. That alone is reason to HATE AROD. The man's name was Michael Weiner and he was the head of the MLBPA.
If you were on trial & your lawyer died then you would probably get a new one. If your lawyer was sick & couldn't do his best to defend you then would you just accept your sentence? This seems like a strange reason to hate him
@@catman-du8927 Except his lawyer did a great job. He got him a favorable compromise. No lawyer can be expected to work a miracle. A-Rod's ass was nailed to the wall level of evidence against him. All any good lawyer can do is get the best deal possible. Your answer is understandable only if it was actually true. It wasn't. So that's just throwing a man who can't defend his own reputation under the bus to make some extra cash.
@@catman-du8927 The very motion is throwing him under the bus. His lawyer died after it was settled and A-Rod decided to sue the MLBPA afterward. Scummy. He knows his lawyer did a great job, he just was willing to allege otherwise to try and get more money.
@@orangefox1231 There is a difference between doing a great job & doing the best to represent someone. I don't know if the case had merits but to claim that it throws him under the bus is ridiculous. A-Rod was hit with the largest suspension ever at the time. Now compare that to the other PED users' suspension, some who even got caught multiple times but got less games suspended. Hell, look how the Astros players got no suspensions even though they cheated for a World Series. Do you think the MLBPA put the same support behind A-Rod as they did the Astros players?
The slapping at the ball in the ALCS - THAT was the moment I knew we were guaranteed to blow that 3-0 lead. I just pray the centaur portraits are real...
Ok, so I’ve always loved old Mariners RF Jay Buhner (aka “Bones”) but to learn that he took late-to-batting practice Arod’s Taco Bell, tossed it up in the air, whacked it with his bat, and made him clean it up is just next-level legendary!
One key thing you didn't mention re: Seattle fans. After he left Seattle, he penned an open letter to Boeing, one of the biggest employers in the area and actively encouraged them to follow his lead and move to Texas. That took the hate to the next level.
Yeah. I mean, as a long-suffering lifetime Mariners fan, I obviously love to hate the guy. But that move is just plain FUNNY. That's like, verbally pantsing two guys at the same time or something. It's the kind of trick that should put a smile on anyone's face.
The funny thing is that Rodriguez said he was disappointed and he cried when Commissioner Selig disallowed him from going to the Red Sox. He said he didn't want to go to the Yankees that he's always wanted to be a Red Sox even when he was a little kid.
17:13 As a yankee fan, this is just one of the reasons why David Ortiz is one of the very few red sox I actually really like, I will always have love for Ortiz, class act, even to do this against your rivals is crazy, 99% of baseball players wouldn’t do that.
2:25 That was one of my friends growing up. Always the strongest kid in school and was the best at football. But not really in skill, just pure strength. Could throw the farthest, run the fastest, break a tackle the best etc. We were mostly friends in middle school, we lived a block away. But even in 7th grade he could bench 325 lbs. High school he was in mid 400s. Just absurd. I didn't think much of it until a couple years after high school, besides "that's crazy." But then I realized... huh, he never ate anything regimental. Ate junk food with us, and when I stayed over for dinner, he did eat more food that the rest of us, but not that much more. He only went to the gym for an hour 3 times a week.... Has no work out equipment at home. How? I started putting it together years later how his dad was uber controlling, always rewarded him with the most expensive bikes and the nicest jerseys and what not. His father was the coach of his youth football team for a few years. I later put it all together that obviously his dad was feeding him steroids for years, had to be.
Its interesting how when a company rips someone off for tons of money they are praised for being good business men but when a person does it they are money hungry and greedy.
Boy A Rod had the best re-brand of all time he said “fuck everybody in the club” walked out and then came back in the club and ppl was happy to see him 💀
Criticize him all you want. Still one of the best hitters of all time. 696 career home runs. Something only Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, and Albert Pujols have beat. You’re in great company if you’re on a list with these guys.
I dunno when I found this channel but I sure am glad I did. I’ve been “in love “ with baseball my whole life and with things that I’ve learned from your videos I’m head over heels
As a Dominican, I once asked my uncle why he didn’t like AROD... and he said he was a “vende-patria” which roughly translates to sellout. And that was all I needed.
Which i found out was the sports mantra by about the time I was 14 in little leagues. Multiple all stars, played the game almost religiously daily with my older brother but the way the adults were teaching children to play the game and trying to cheat the system started my ultimate disdain for it. They were out there teaching children to be as scummy as the worst used care salesmen.
A-Rod reminds me of that one Bill Simmons phrase "the Tyson Zone." The point where any single story about a celebrity/athlete/politician/whatever, no matter how bizarre it sounds, could very well be true. Hearing some of the things in this video that A-Rod was involved with, I kept expecting more and more claims like "oh, he also has a trip booked to the Moon so he can be in contact with aliens."
A few years ago, I had a sit down chat with a hall of famer and talked baseball. He is a pretty chill guy, but he did say A-Rod was the most stupid person he ever knew.
Bro I don’t watch mlb or American sports that much but this video was so fucking interesting, beautifully presented and very informative. Please keep this up you’re so good man.
Got to see a-rod in the dying light of his career. I was about 9 or 10 at the time and it was after we was sent down to the rail-riders along with Derek. (Who I also got to see play which made my year). And I'm telling you, the amount of hate that that man received from the fans, at his own stadium, was insane. I still laugh when I think about it. I being a dumb kid with no idea what was going on was yelling encouragement. Then I just gave up and started booing him relentlessly too. Good times.
@@sephirrothvt I’m literally Dominican. I guess you know my ethnicity and skin color just because of what they mandated construction workers to do on the sight...
Cheated on the field, cheated off the field, cheated on his wife.
Damn
That intro alone would be enough to make anyone go "oh. Yeah this guy kinda sucks"
@Now give me your money lol no they were never married
@Now give me your money Tru
@Now give me your money Yeah... wow.
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It amazes me how baseball world cancelled and buried Barry Bonds so quickly yet we see A Rod on ESPN...
You think so? There are plenty of people out there who defend Bonds, I’ve never really seen anybody try to defend ARod
Barry was a hitting coach for Miami for a while, he was always a private person.
When I was a kid I hated Barry, but now I feel both he and A-rod were just scapegoats for the MLBs steroid issues. The game should celebrate what an incredible player Bonds was
A-hole has a very thick skin. No matter how much he was boo-ed, he thinks of the money that will cushion his fall.
@@coachleif Barry would be a lot more celebrated if he hadn’t broken the Aaron record. I think a lot of people, myself included, feel like the home run record and Roger Clemens 7 Cy Young’s, both don’t feel totally legitimate.
Me at the beginning of the video: “It can’t be that bad...”
Me at the end: “Holy fucking shit”
I'm South African, I don't watch American sports. I know absolutely nothing about baseball. This jusf popped up in my recommended. There have been some proper scumbags all over the world in sports we play. But holy shit this guy is a disgrace, a grade prick. I'm surprised he was allowed to get away with so much bs.
@@aryanvedarth6745 it’s prettyyyy baddd😂
Lol
Haha umi thought the same thing. What a piece of shit
Nah that boy a rod a terrible person 💀
Jay Buhner smashing his tacos with a baseball bat and making him clean it up while berating him, and his teammates calling him "Bitch Tits" made me laugh hard.
Jay Buhner in his prime is not a man I would want to cross…
@@NickPoeschekno shit, Bone was a BAMF.
You know you’re disliked when Ken Griffey Jr. doesn’t really like you
Everybody likes Griffey
Griffey doesn't like Norm MacDonald
Jr's naughty list: Yankees, A-Rod, probably some NYY fans
@Blank Comment eh, anecdotal evidence in terms of his character. I think we tend to over regard great character in players until they do one thing wrong and then the tune is changed. The dude tried to kill himself with essentially liver poisoning at 18. I've had guys like Dusty Baker snap at me for an autograph when I was 8 years old and he is one of the most universally beloved managers in the sport. Not to disparage your experiences but it does bum me out when one incident some does have completely eclipses their perception of someone, derailing everything else.
@Blank Comment he wasn’t a typical superstar, maybe he had a bad day. But this was the type of guy to put a cow in Lou pinellas office and drive across the country the night after a bad loss (when he had a game the next day) needless to say he was a different kind of superstar
Now I understand why I was bullied so relentlessly that one time I wore an A-Rod shirt to middle school
I Wore An Giambi Jersey And I'm Proud Of It
@@futuregohan4837 why the hell are you capitalizing EVERY WORD IN YOUR SENTENCE? You only have to do that for titles. Like if you’re saying the title of a movie, you capitalize the words. You really don’t need to do that, it makes things harder to read.
@@krusher181 Lmaoo Bro Could Do What He Wants
@@FXL-mx8iz nah that should be a war crime
@@krusher181 Chill. You're getting mad over nothing.
Donating only $5,000 of the over $400,000 your charity raised is way more scandalous than testing positive for stimulants. So scummy.
This is an incredible video essay.
For real if I tried something like that I bet I’d end up in jail, deservedly.
poor guy only had 200 mill in the bank at the time
But Donald Trump took all the money donated to his charity and spent it all on himself and lots of people love him. Plus Trump was a billionaire. He is white too.
@@boristheamerican2938 why must we make everything political
@@abrahamterry9445 Not political I am just using Trump as a comparison because he is the only one I knew of before now that spent all the donations to his charitable fun on himself. He is loved and Alex is not. The only difference I can see is skin color and the fact that Alex earned his money. Maybe people hate Alex because he earned his money.
When I worked in the tunnels and on the field for an MLB team, I remember being told that if I see him, do NOT hold doors for him. I was specifically told that if he comes up the tunnel into the clubhouse in a group of other players, I was to let the door go and let him get his own damn door. He was notorious for looking away from staff who extended him courtesies, so they no longer wanted to treat him with courtesy.
That’s kinda nuts lol. He has to be bad for a business to just say fuck it and blatantly disrespect him. Good on them
Yeah he’s a narcissist to the core. It’s not a nice thing to be discourteous to someone, but when someone shows a pattern of blatant disrespect, you have to cut them off. Show no emotion. That kinda guy feeds off the drama.
as bad as aroid is i would still hold the door for him cause im too nice
Where did you work
BS. That would get everyone involved fired if their was that type of coordinated effort to mess with a celebrity athlete with his status. If you are going to say that everyone just kept it a secret, that is BS too, because most new employees who were told to do this would question it to a higher authority because if told to do this by a co-worker, it would sound like a prank with the intention to get someone fired. There i no way a MLB organization paying him millions of dollars a year are going to let him be punked by the guys being paid minimum wage to hold open doors.
This video being almost three times longer than usual is hilarious
Yeah A-Rod be really disliked...
Seriously. The amount of drama Arod went through during his career is INSANE. I wish the vid could have been 10 minutes just too much stuff not to talk about. And honestly the most impressive thing about Arod is how he put up some of the best numbers in history while he was constantly dealing with scandal after scandal.... say what you want about Arod 99.9% of humans cant do that
I like the long video
There’s so much to hate about a rod
@@BaseballDoesntExist wow. i wonder if you're a yankee fan!
I saw the 31 minute runtime and said, “no way I’m watching this whole thing.” I’m on minute 27 and I’m sad it’s almost over 😂
Have to admit, it was well pit together.
It kept popping up on my timeline and kept saying the same thing. Hell's no it's too long. Then finally watched it till the end on the first click.
same
Right 😩😅😅😅
Me too. Truly a train wreck I couldn’t look away from
My favorite moment was when he asked the Yankees to let him play shortstop for his last game and they said no.
Wow did that really happen lol 😆😆
Also the yankees refused to play him down the stretch of his final season and basically forced him to retire when he was 4 hrs short of a milestone
@@johnnytwotimes7854 that one actually kinda makes feel bad, he was def gonna retire anyway after he broke the record and could have at least reached a great milestone despite everything else.
Jeter was just as big an egomaniac, just a much better actor
@@georgelee4335 yeah same, at the time I really didn't get it.
As a lifelong Mariners fan, I can still vividly remember as a little kid going to a home game against Texas right after he was traded, and I still to this day have never heard anyone in pro sports booed that loudly in my life. I was 10 years old, Safeco field was completely packed for those Texas games just so everyone could have a chance to boo him personally.
Yeah, it was so much fun. Talk about "being part of something larger than yourself". And that thing is just pure, unfiltered fuck you.
I was probably one of those people booing/
I was there too. It was deafening. When Griffey came back in his first game after he left, he got a standing ovation that must've lasted 10 minutes. He teared up over it.
Idk, I've seen videos of the Dodger's stadium packed booing at random Astros fans before the game even started lol.
Oh lord, Ichiro's first game where he threw A-Rod out from all the way out in right field as he was going to 3rd was _so, so satisfying for Mariners fans to see._
"He singlehandedly kept the New York Post from going out of business" 😂😭😂
I think he kept all the newspapers in New York in business because of internet and digital news media
What a shame
A true hero
Plot twist: he owned the New York post
@@RossBayCult Just like Trump with CNN.
So weird how a team can lose Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr and Alex Rodriguez in the span of about 5 years... And then immediately have their best season ever!! LOL
Seriously 😂
Ichiro
That Japanese fella was pretty good
Edgar Martinez too. If the mid/late 90’s M’s had a decent bullpen, they may have won a World Series then.
@@sto1238 Well everyone knew that he never reconcile with his pops, ever.... bonkers.
I’m more shocked that Max Kellerman and Steven A Smith both had a take that’s agreeable
RIGHT!!??
A-Rod touched their nerves fr 😂😂 but it’s understandable
The fact that no team thought it was worth the extra money in ticket sales to try to push A Rod over 700 homers shows you just how bad his rep was around the league at the end.
They did? ARod has been pretty clear that multiple teams approached him but he wanted to retire as a Yankee. If you’re gonna hate on ARod at least be accurate
“A-rod was doing steroids whether he liked it or not.” 😂😂😂
"Bend over alex, it's time for your dose" - Jose c.
Facts
Yeah that was a hilarious way to put it 😂
👎👎👎🖕🖕🖕 for A-ROD
He’s that energy you had with Jose cause this Alex train don’t stop manfreds hell bent on taking my steroids you try to ban him I guess that’s what you do when you can’t beat him and coming to Yankees stadium in my jeter jersey new song fuck arod
"I wouldn't hit a .240 hitter on purpose." Lmaoooo that's savage.
Except that everybody knows when it came to #s Arod was a goat. Now arroyo on the other hand 😴.. and i can careless for either one of them since they dont do anything for me. But facts are facts.
@Erick Perez he just knew it would pidd him off
So is jay buhner smashing up them tacos and telling a rod to clean it up is fucking classic funny
@Erick Perez do you know his average on that day? He could have been hitting 240 at that moment.
It was Jason Varitek that said it and it was “Hey man, we don’t hit .260 hitters”
The problem for Seattle fans wasn't the money, it was him stating "I don't care about money, I want to go to a winner." Then he immediately went in division to a last place team
To be fair, the Rangers had at that point recently been division champions three times in four years.
@@MetFanMac He did it for the money.
@@gregshirley-jeffersonboule6258 Oh, without a doubt. I'm just saying his statement wasn't as farfetched as OP would have you believe.
@@MetFanMac They had Gonzalez and Pudge Rodriguez (with some decent pitching post-Nolan Ryan).
He later went on to say yeah, it was about the money.
My fondest memory of A-rod is when he struck out looking in the 2010 ALCS and gave my Rangers their first World Series.
for me it's still the glove swat in alcs g6 04
Who gave my Giants their first World Series win since moving to SF in 1958. 😀
Ofcourse this roided out freak goes ham against the Phillies.
@@richatlarge462 And then the Rangers finally got their first last season, so it was a win-win all around :3
He and Jennifer Lopez deserve each other. She's the A Rod of Hollywood.
"Jenny from the block" another liar.
I mean they get along really well. Good for them.
Welp
This didn't age well
This aged greatly lol.Theirs so many cheating reports going with them lol.Two cheating liars getting engaged lol.
"...lots of reasons to hate him. He lied, he cheated..."
...and he's far less charismatic that Eddie Guerrero.
Not to mention he was not honest about his lying and cheating like Eddie was.
@@MrPooly1459 Exactly! If your dishonesty is honest, it's lovable. If your dishonesty is dishonest, well, then how can we trust you?
I lie, I cheat, I steal.
"I Lieddddddd!" from the late Eddie Guerrero
@@bobbob465 are talking about That Guy who is a Professional wrestlers? And he has a wife who always said EXCUSE ME!
ARod is most remembered as a Yankee. & It's quite poetic how as much as their personalities clashed, both ARod & Jeter represent New York culture, as a whole. Jeter, the humble guy who didn't allow the lights and cameras to define him as a player or person. And ARod, who in a sense was made for the big city & bright lights. It's like a Hollywood film in real life.
I don't think anything about A Rod represents New York at all. And I'm born and raised in the Bronx..
@@leonidas18727 he does. You have New York the people born and raised and the big city chaser. It literally is a microcosm of New York.
I'm sure someone has made this point already, but that is also analogous to Marris and Mantle. So yeah, pretty fitting for the Yankees.
@@joshhildenbrand218 🎯🎯🎯🎯
Yeah but why don't we feel the same way about Paul O'Neil Derek Jeter Tino Martinez Bernie Williams Don Mattingly the rest of the legends? When A Rod is mentioned the feel isn't the same. Nobody associates him with the high regard of being a Yankee or New York. They think steroids.. And lying.
8:25 A bit of poetic justice: The final out in the Mariners' 116th win that year was A-Rod.
Lol now mariners have j rod. 😂 and my stros have beat them. And Goin to world series baby!!! 2022
Here was the Mariners middle of the order in '96...
ARod - .358 BA, 36 HR, 123 RBI
Griffey - .303 BA, 49 HR, 140 RBI
Buhner - .271 BA, 44 HR, 138 RBI
Martinez - .327 BA, 26 HR, 103 RBI
In case you were wondering why the Mariners didn't make the post-season - that's because Sterling Hitchcock was their ace that season
If only they had maybe 3 good or above average pitchers…
Bobby ayala…
Griffey also lead the league in defensive WAR that year.
I was about to comment and they still sucked but I see you knew that
"... And with more on that, here are resident storytellers Jon and Alex with the details..."
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As a Red Sox fan since literally the day I was born, I can confidently say... The ARod/Manny deal falling through was the greatest thing that has ever happened to the franchise...
Not like manny didn’t have his own scandals tho
@@cody8385 fr lol
@@cody8385 just Manny being Manny
Oh man I'm with you. I would've hated to have to cheer for a rod. And not to mention I doubt we even break the curse with him. That's exactly the kind of thing the previous owners would have done and we'd be sitting here at 104 years without a title.
@@cody8385 Manny worked his ass off until the last year when he shot his way out of town.
i am Irish. i am a Sports-fanatic but I know very little about Baseball. however, i am addicted to these videos man . unbelievable stuff- very deep. extremely packed with information and edited to perfection.
10/10 from me
Thanks
@Ragnarok n' Ready it means a hell of a lot.
Facts i don’t watch baseball and still was hooked
Give baseball a try mate! Watch the Dodgers and you will be hooked 😎😎😎
Agreed. Quality production and content on everything I’ve watched this far. I’m not even a big ball fan, but find all everything extremely informing.
Like it or not, this Dominican never did anything illegal.
There is a framed picture of Jason Varitek mushing A-Rod in the face hanging proudly on the wall at my local bar. This image is a holy icon in New England (except Connecticut).
That was one of my favorite moments!
Nah Connecticut too. Im a Sox and Mets fan and that was awesome. Go sox, LFGM, and #FuckTheNYY
Booing ARod was a family tradition when we went to our Ranger games.
Even though he wasn’t the reason you guys were shit?
We’d boo him with the whole Safeco Field crowd whenever he came back to Seattle in a Texas Rangers uniform or the one time a year the Yankees would roll into town.
@@purplenurple9148 ummm when you spend all your money on one player... it kinda is. Baseball has this thing called a line up, and you 9 players to make a field team
@@Robert53area then that is your general managers fault for making him the offer. You said it yourself, you can’t expect Arod to single handedly win championships without a team around him. He did well enough there.
same at Fenway!
As Much as people hated A-Rod...he was so good for baseball. He fit the Villain narrative and he made the game entertaining to watch him throughout his career. Great Video!
Yeah but he should have accepted it. He should have acted like a douche all the time and not be a lovey dovey guy. Carlos Correa should have done the same this year.
Because he was on steroids his whole career.
@@Arms1234 like 95% of players from his era, get over it.
@@jacobredmond4127 if he just accepted it you wouldn’t have hated him nearly as much and it wouldn’t have been the same. He played his role perfectly, and is playing his after baseball role even better
As a Yankee fan I can say there was nothing entertaining about watching this guy lie and make himself look like a jackass over and over and over again. Never understood the Alex Rodriguez trade and I never will. Just like I will never understand why the Yankees traded for Giancarlo Stanton or who I like to call A-Rod 2.0
I know this video is about A-Rod but the best part is watching Griffey's swing. 30 years on that still is my favorite swing of all time.
I know right? Griffey's follow through is like an art form!
Indeed that swing is making me act up 😩
@@touchgrassbro9889lol
The fact this guys reputation is still intact is one of the craziest things in sports
thats why maintaining a decent image matters. Being slow to anger matters. Being soft spoken, well spoken matters. It can literally lessen your consequences and bad reputation. Handeling yourself professionally matters.
Same with Tigger Woods....
I'm just annoyed no one introduced me to steroids while I was playing high school baseball😂 could have been rich
Where did you play? Shit man, I knew some guys on varsity that got that AND rubbed a little on their grades for them too.
@@OvelNick what
Nah you still need to have skills lol
@@simplymarvelous7255 so many people think steroids are like this wonder drug that transform you into a good player.... A shitty player on steroids is still a shitty player^^ and a good player is a good player wether he is on roids or not.
@@dr.doppeldecker3832 you must not have heard of Jose canseco lol
One of the great lines about A-rod, came from Joe Torrie, when asked why he batted Alex, eight, in a post season game. Torrie, allegedly, answered, "Because I couldn't bat him tenth."
Joe Torre*
Idk what that means, but yeah, great line
@@brixan... only 9 positions on the field, his coach said he couldn’t have him batting any lower on the lineup than 9
@@matthewtrenhaile5858 No shit Sherlock. Captain obvious!
@@christopherwood2290 someone asked what it meant you tit!
Probably my fondest memory as a Sox fan is watching Mike Lowell put his shoulder down as he ran into third and 100% intentionally ran A-Rod the fuck over. I've never been able to find a clip of it online, but I'll never forget it.
Oh Man I would LOVE to see that!! Seriously if you ever find it, can you link it here? Please?
@@red5llaw If I do, I'll be sure to.
@@BestWayKilla Cheers!
Do you remember what year it was? Possibly even what month? Thanks
@@iblnxyi4818 Whatever year it was that had the controversy when A-Rod was running the bases and the infielder went to catch a pop fly, and A-Rod shouted something akin to "I got it!", which saw the ball not getting caught. Probably 2006 or 2007, if I recall correctly, and probably sometime in the summer.
5:40 -- And the reason he lost that 1996 MVP was because both Seattle writers (the ones who vote for these awards) gave their first place votes to Griffey. Did I forget to mention how super amazing I thought it would've been back in the day if they did a baseball themed Space Jam sequel starring Ken Griffey, Jr? The player of the 90s?
Watch one espn broadcast and you'll know why everyone hates A-rod
I Really don’t Understand why the Braves didn’t bunt here then proceeds to say it forty times throughout the next 30ish hours
Striker92 this is the exact game I was thinking of he literally talked about it all inning and then after the break takes about it when they weren’t even at the plate anymore. Talking about how “selfish” it was. Bitch please
I can’t stand him telling the viewers how to play the game of baseball when he’s a fucking cheater
@@danmarsh6448 he cheated but ARod definitely knows how to play baseball.
Yup
Half an hour long with zero filler or pauses. Unbelievable
And he ain't done yet.
1 minute in and its already golden
30 minutes in and it's still golden
I came down here to comment that the video could’ve been 59 seconds long
I remember when A-Rod was with the Rangers, my sister and I got some Rangers posters for our rooms. Hers had A-Rod and "Pudge" posing together. It said something like "A-Rod and I-Rod".
Years later when we got older and found out more about A-Rod she quietly went into her room and took the poster down. No idea where it went after that.
It got repurposed as a homemade baseball probably, in other words, balled up in the trash
"Strongly disliked" him as a player, kind of ok as a broadcaster ngl
More like kind of amazing as a broadcaster.
A rod is the worst baseball commentator going. Tune out when he starts jabbering on about himself other than the game.
He's a great broadcaster
@@stevenygabbyperez695 besides him broadcasting on national when the Yankees are playing
@@Bajie_Smuggler stfu
It's fun to come back and watch this again every once in awhile.
You missed how Dominican Repúblic hate him for not showing up to the World Classic
Never forget!
You hate him, not dominican Republic, you but not dominicans.
@@victorrojas5856 los dominicanos lo odian por elegir representar usa en el clásico mundial del 2006
My dad loves that guy.
@@cholo1193 AROD es estadounidense, nacido en Estados Unidos. Por qué habría de representar a la República Dominicana?
In 1998 I was 14 years old and was in Denver for the All Star Game. My friends and I attended a Nike Training camp for kids aged 8-14 to go work on our game for the day. Unbeknownst to anyone, A-Rod made a surprise appearance. He was classy, told us to stay in school, treat our family with respect, and to work hard. He stayed and talked with us for what felt like hours (probably 2, keep in mind I was 14). The internet and phones weren't what they are now. Zero cameras, zero publicity, zero reason to be there other than to hang out with us and inspire us to be better people. This also happened to be the same day as the actual All Star Game.
Ironically, it was the same year Junior refused multiple times to be a part of the Home Run Derby in Denver citing travel exhaustion. He the changed his mind the day of, won the title, and the city of Denver booed him the entire day lolol.
While I can't vouch for all the crap A-Rod has done, that afternoon hanging out with him and my friends was one of my favorite baseball memories as a kid. Baffles me to this day how this guy and the guy that afternoon are the same person.
Dang not reading ya novel and stop being younger than me
@@pineapplesideways3820 You couldn’t read three paragraphs? Lol
Roids change people. So does money, pressure, etc.
@@jennzifur Pathetic, isn’t it. We are becoming a nation of dunces.
@@Jesusisyhwh roids saved baseball
5:00 I'm not standing up for A-rod but destroying a man's tacos and making him clean it make is a crime.
Would throw hands for that
To be fair it was taco bell so...
@@WikedEvo authentic mexican food
Jay Buhner was a nuclear-grade asshole, but he was our nuclear-grade asshole. I think if he'd done it to almost anyone else I'd agree with you, but... it was A-rod, you know? That makes it funny to me.
Thats his super villain origin story. From that moment on he became the A Rod we all know
My most fond memory of a-rod and Yankees was watching them lose in the alcs in 2004 up 3-0 me and my dad weren't big redsocks fans but that series we were. Spending time with my dad watching the games on our living room couch in is still one of my best memories. It was so fun to me. And also the 2003 Florida marlins WS win over the yanks that's a fond memory also
The two things I specifically remember about Arod in that series was that stunt he tried to pull in game 6 and then him whining like a little you know what when he got caught (not to mention the oh so classy reaction from Yanks fans) and looking like he was about to cry when the Sox got the last out in game 7
I'm the same. I'm no fan of the Red Sox, but I can tell you that pretty much everyone in America outside of NYC was a Red Sox fan that season. (I think it's also cool that Dave Roberts, who started the 0-3 comeback, later coached the Dodgers, which is my team). However, after that, I got sick of the Red Sox pretty quickly.
ESPN after knowing ALL of this shit about him: let's hire him to be the face of the network!!
@Lighthouse in the Storm who gives a shit? he doesn't deserve to be there. there are loads of other players would would do at least as good a job who didn't disgrace the game.
Him and J Lo we’re literally perfect for one another. Washed up damaged goods with incredible egos who no good person would actually want to deal with. Wish it worked out for us all.
Cope
woah now they might not be good people but if we're calling J Lo washed we're not thinking straight.
Lmfao
Taco flavored kisses for her Ben now!
Sure seems like a lot of people are still working with j lo and a rod while a rod is making even more money away from baseball lmaooo I think it all worked out amazing for him
As a mariners fan I am sad that I haven't discovered this channel sooner, you sold me on the rumors of A-rod having centaur pics of himself in his bedroom.
From watching all these vids it is confirmed baseball is the private school of major sports. Structured, good morals, awesome curriculum, but very naughty students.🤣
I followed the Yankees throughout the early-mid 2000s, and I remember a few things clearly:
1. Being mad that they traded away Alfonso Soriano.
2. A-Rod consistently choking on the plate when it came to big at-bats.
3. Gary Sheffield being the exact opposite and constantly crushing balls to left field when the Yankees needed him most.
4. Losing to the Angels
5. Losing to the Diamondbacks
6. Red Sox coming back
7. Losing to the Astros
And trading Jay Buehner?
Those New York post covers are masterpieces 😂
My favorite one is the one that says "GOD HATES A-ROD" because he got rained on during his goodbye game from the Yankees.
It must have been an absolute blast to think of the titles with the pictures
The “God hates A-Rod” headline was wild 😂
@@guatemalantomcat LOL Even God hates Arod
"A-HOLE"
It's actually funny the parallel between Anakin Skywalker "The chosen one" and AROD. All the potential to be the hero, but chose the darkside in the end.
Except Anakin was actually a good person, just manipulated for years
@@bobs1fan706 true, AROD was always an asshole
@@bobs1fan706 ARod with Canseco for years. Shown shades of the dark way since high school
Blah
@@Warum.2439 lol yeah Canseco is a great parallel to darth Sidious
No WAY dude had a painting of him as a centaur. That is completely unbelievable. I'm howling
17:10 this is why people love Ortiz. The man is so kind
Nah I stopped liking Ortiz after he called Mike Fiers a snitch. Behemoth who obviously used PEDs calling Fiers a snitch. Nah fuck Ortiz
I’ve always hated the Red Sox (I’m a Dodgers fan) but yeah “Big Poppi” is pretty awesome.
@@captainawesome103 I mean every Red Sox player goes to the dodgers so...
@@jlee175 point taken lol
@@jlee175 but also it’s about the name on the front not the one on the back
He sued the MLPA alleging that his player rep didn't do his absolute best to represent him in his suspension case. The guy in question couldn't defend himself because he had died of brain cancer which he knew he had beforehand and still spent a good portion of his last days alive trying to help Alex Rodriguez. That alone is reason to HATE AROD. The man's name was Michael Weiner and he was the head of the MLBPA.
If you were on trial & your lawyer died then you would probably get a new one. If your lawyer was sick & couldn't do his best to defend you then would you just accept your sentence? This seems like a strange reason to hate him
@@catman-du8927 Except his lawyer did a great job. He got him a favorable compromise. No lawyer can be expected to work a miracle. A-Rod's ass was nailed to the wall level of evidence against him. All any good lawyer can do is get the best deal possible.
Your answer is understandable only if it was actually true. It wasn't. So that's just throwing a man who can't defend his own reputation under the bus to make some extra cash.
@@orangefox1231 He didn't throw him under the bus. Nothing I can read online from the suit says anything like you are claiming it to say.
@@catman-du8927 The very motion is throwing him under the bus. His lawyer died after it was settled and A-Rod decided to sue the MLBPA afterward. Scummy. He knows his lawyer did a great job, he just was willing to allege otherwise to try and get more money.
@@orangefox1231 There is a difference between doing a great job & doing the best to represent someone. I don't know if the case had merits but to claim that it throws him under the bus is ridiculous. A-Rod was hit with the largest suspension ever at the time. Now compare that to the other PED users' suspension, some who even got caught multiple times but got less games suspended. Hell, look how the Astros players got no suspensions even though they cheated for a World Series. Do you think the MLBPA put the same support behind A-Rod as they did the Astros players?
The slapping at the ball in the ALCS - THAT was the moment I knew we were guaranteed to blow that 3-0 lead. I just pray the centaur portraits are real...
Ok, so I’ve always loved old Mariners RF Jay Buhner (aka “Bones”) but to learn that he took late-to-batting practice Arod’s Taco Bell, tossed it up in the air, whacked it with his bat, and made him clean it up is just next-level legendary!
his nickname is "The Bone" not bones
Lol "Bones" good one I needed that laugh
One key thing you didn't mention re: Seattle fans. After he left Seattle, he penned an open letter to Boeing, one of the biggest employers in the area and actively encouraged them to follow his lead and move to Texas. That took the hate to the next level.
man that dude is nut lmao
Holy shit lol wtf is wrong with him
That's actually pretty funny
Like they’d move Boeing out of Everett.
@@mcnall34 they will. Washington is so fucked up.
No mention of his time dating Torrie Wilson that’s the moment by hatred went next level
Why? I’m young so I don’t know who that is
Woah! Was that before JLo?
@@NobleDemonTim yeah it was way before J lo it was like 2013
Yelling "I got it" as a baserunner is amazing. Wish I could have thought of that.
Yeah. I mean, as a long-suffering lifetime Mariners fan, I obviously love to hate the guy. But that move is just plain FUNNY. That's like, verbally pantsing two guys at the same time or something. It's the kind of trick that should put a smile on anyone's face.
A Complete BS move that no real ballplayer would ever do...What a scumbag...only Manny Machado is worse !
I did that before and the fielders dropped the ball and we ended up winning that game😂
More hated than A-Rod?
Someone forgot the 2020 Astros 🙃
ASStros!💩💩💩💩💩😫😫👎
Now say that without cry
@@dannysunay8099 Salty LA Chokers fan detected
@@dannysunay8099 *1981 *2020
Nah I hate a rod more
Narcissistic personality is the issue jlo is the same that’s what attracted them to each other and ultimately destroyed them too much alike
A rod used Rods to make his biceps and triceps look better. Jay lo used either rods or BOTOX to bolster her " Famous" rear end
Actually it was a HUGE publicity grab for Both of them. They BOTH made a Ton of MONEY from this long-term "Relationship"
he is worse , cocky jerk . and cheated
Whyyyy l!!! my ex looks like A-Rod and he a narcissist
Highschool: tuition is $10,000
A-rod: ima need a jet, private managing team, and all school profits
Highschool: sounds great!
Plot twist They don’t have school profits
@@johnlangill5289 plot twist: it is a private school
@@johnlangill5289 they don’t have profits because they “spend” the money on filling administrations pockets
The funny thing is that Rodriguez said he was disappointed and he cried when Commissioner Selig disallowed him from going to the Red Sox. He said he didn't want to go to the Yankees that he's always wanted to be a Red Sox even when he was a little kid.
A-Roid was an asshole from the time he was 16 until today.....a sad, confused MFer
How can the commissioner prevent a player from going to a specific team? Especially in the age of free agency?
17:13 As a yankee fan, this is just one of the reasons why David Ortiz is one of the very few red sox I actually really like, I will always have love for Ortiz, class act, even to do this against your rivals is crazy, 99% of baseball players wouldn’t do that.
Same. Ortiz and Pedroia were really respected players.
After all these years I still think Ken Griffey Jr. has the most perfect swing. Those were the days... back when Mariner fans had a shred of pride
Pretty sweet swing isn’t it. A Rod only wishes
the Mariners got one of the best baseball documentary ever made. I'd say thats something for a fan to be proud of
Favorite player of all time!
in my lifetime, it's either Junior or John Olerud. just so smooth
I'll never not be a Mariners fan
The title should be renamed "Think you hate Arod now?"
Exactly 😂 I just thought he was your average douchey athlete, but little did I know he was a God tier douche.
I love a rod
Right Cuz i was neutral before - now I’m mad
2:25 That was one of my friends growing up. Always the strongest kid in school and was the best at football. But not really in skill, just pure strength. Could throw the farthest, run the fastest, break a tackle the best etc. We were mostly friends in middle school, we lived a block away. But even in 7th grade he could bench 325 lbs. High school he was in mid 400s. Just absurd. I didn't think much of it until a couple years after high school, besides "that's crazy." But then I realized... huh, he never ate anything regimental. Ate junk food with us, and when I stayed over for dinner, he did eat more food that the rest of us, but not that much more. He only went to the gym for an hour 3 times a week.... Has no work out equipment at home. How? I started putting it together years later how his dad was uber controlling, always rewarded him with the most expensive bikes and the nicest jerseys and what not. His father was the coach of his youth football team for a few years. I later put it all together that obviously his dad was feeding him steroids for years, had to be.
Its interesting how when a company rips someone off for tons of money they are praised for being good business men but when a person does it they are money hungry and greedy.
Shhh butterball you can’t say that
Boy A Rod had the best re-brand of all time he said “fuck everybody in the club” walked out and then came back in the club and ppl was happy to see him 💀
I remember when he signed his 10 year, 252 million dollar Rangers deal. It was totally insane at the time.
Criticize him all you want. Still one of the best hitters of all time. 696 career home runs. Something only Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, and Albert Pujols have beat. You’re in great company if you’re on a list with these guys.
This is the first I've heard of the sign stealing thing about him. Holy shit
Same here. Giving other batters the pitches. What the hell. He has no room to talk about...really anything related to rules in baseball.
I dunno when I found this channel but I sure am glad I did. I’ve been “in love “ with baseball my whole life and with things that I’ve learned from your videos I’m head over heels
This stuff makes me want to follow baseball lol
First thing that came to mind was that guy yelling to Marc Wahlberg in the other guys that he should’ve shot A rod instead of Jeter 😂
Legendary movie 🤣🤣🤣
The Other Guys is such a fantastic movie!
he's a biracial angel lol
During this video I got an ad for Jeep Wagoneer with Jeter in it. Talk about comedic timing 😂
“Jose Canseco Challenges Alex Rodriguez to Fight, Accuses Him of Cheating on J-Lo”
😂😂🤣😂😂
As a Dominican, I once asked my uncle why he didn’t like AROD... and he said he was a “vende-patria” which roughly translates to sellout. And that was all I needed.
No cap
@@RhandySvg capless
@Saph Adams please don't tell me you're one of those people who think its all a free mason satanic conspiracy?
@Saph Adams devils?
@Saph Adams wrong your
He’s the epitome of “if you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin”
Which i found out was the sports mantra by about the time I was 14 in little leagues. Multiple all stars, played the game almost religiously daily with my older brother but the way the adults were teaching children to play the game and trying to cheat the system started my ultimate disdain for it. They were out there teaching children to be as scummy as the worst used care salesmen.
A-Rod reminds me of that one Bill Simmons phrase "the Tyson Zone." The point where any single story about a celebrity/athlete/politician/whatever, no matter how bizarre it sounds, could very well be true. Hearing some of the things in this video that A-Rod was involved with, I kept expecting more and more claims like "oh, he also has a trip booked to the Moon so he can be in contact with aliens."
dirty as hell in Texas and then send him to NYC? like sending a dude with a sex addiction to a brothel for rehab
A few years ago, I had a sit down chat with a hall of famer and talked baseball. He is a pretty chill guy, but he did say A-Rod was the most stupid person he ever knew.
Who was it
@@kush8595 I am pretty sure he wouldn't want me throwing down his name in connection with a conversation about talking badly of someone.
@@lovelessissimo I understand 👍
Is it Junior or Mariano?
After listening to the first minute I feel convinced
What I remember the most about A Rod was when he was looking into buying the Cubs. While he was still playing baseball on a Yankees contract. 😂
Don’t stop grinding bro. You have legit potential , this is better then a lot of legitimate sport documentary productions
At 21:37 when the reporter asks him if he’s ever taken steroids he nods at the same time he says no... We shoulda known
Thank you for not leaving out the centaur portrait, most important part of the lore
This was part I did not know
Bro this was brilliant, great job
Bro I don’t watch mlb or American sports that much but this video was so fucking interesting, beautifully presented and very informative. Please keep this up you’re so good man.
The part of him having videos of playing constantly as well as paintings are something you'd see in BoJack Horseman. Lmao
Got to see a-rod in the dying light of his career. I was about 9 or 10 at the time and it was after we was sent down to the rail-riders along with Derek. (Who I also got to see play which made my year). And I'm telling you, the amount of hate that that man received from the fans, at his own stadium, was insane. I still laugh when I think about it.
I being a dumb kid with no idea what was going on was yelling encouragement. Then I just gave up and started booing him relentlessly too. Good times.
As a human lie detector, myself.. I knew he was lying at 21:43. He nodded 'yes', while answering 'no'.
the best part was the lip twitch. something primal in him knew he was completely wrong and went with it anyways
I was at his last game, it was weird as hell. Fans were cheering him, no one was really talking shit.
Winning cures a lot...and induces amnesia
“Im the wrong guy to be asking about suspensions.”
LOL
When A-rod slapped the ball out of Arroyo's glove it sealed the deal for me.
He completely bitched out.
Agree 1,000%
I just wish I could've spent the night with jose..that's the way I could've uped my average from 360 to 460...my bench from 275 to 475....amazing
I swear to god this sport attracts the most colorful characters imaginable
My dad worked at the yankee stadium when they were building it and when he got there they told him if they saw A-Rod for them to not talk to him😂
Well yeah that's obvious. He's like Ellen
That is hate against half Latinos, I bet you hate light dark brown skinned Latino dudes allegedly
@@sephirrothvt I’m literally Dominican. I guess you know my ethnicity and skin color just because of what they mandated construction workers to do on the sight...
@@ItsAdrianMata dominican too and I am surprised you did not get it was trolling.
@@sephirrothvt hermanito, tú nunca sabes. Some people deadass be stupid😂. Sorry though
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