Mr. 600

Arod and the FEEL GOOD STORY of 2010

Alex, you can relax now, you made it finally to 600 home runs, great job you big fat cheater. Next time get Cameron Diaz to give you a rub down !!


Next climb over Slammin' Sammy Sosa at 609, likely late in August, then onto the next milestone.

I hope you enjoyed all those hugs you were handing out after you dinged Jays Shaun Marcum in yesterday's tilt, as I am sure your surprised team mates were as well.

Only Jeter, the greatest player in modern history not have 3000 hits, and still well below Harold Baines, was thee single Yankee at home plate, no out pouring of team mates waiting to high five you, and allow you to bask in the sunshine.

Certain members of the media are likely going to overlook your admitted 3 year usage of steriods ( in Texas only , of course ) and vote you a first ballot entry into the HOF, but despite the drugs not being banned by baseball, sorry, cheating is cheating. If gambling is cheating, and if you only broke ethical laws and not baseball laws, too frickin bad, you and Barry and Sammy can all take a hike.

The question begs asking, Hey Alex, how many home runs did you hit while sticking the needle in your ass ?  100, 200, how many ???
Aaron and Ruth and Mays still belong as the top 3, and we should acknowledge Junior as well. Consider how much time Griffey missed, gee whiz, maybe he should have taken roids' to improve his recovery time.

Babe did take stuff, it was just it was hot dogs, beer, soda pop, and the odd bourbon.

The more you listen to Arod, the more contrived his responses to questions, he just lacks the genuine emotions, and is a pre packed product of the big money me me me era of sports, and he is just so darn hard to like. Remember he signed his 252 million dollar deal with Texas, and it was 252 mill so he could say he twice the size of the largest contract at that time ( Kevin Garnett's 136 million $ deal ). 

So he got to 600, and if health holds, he should reach 700, and watch folks in NY react to his eclipsing the Babe's 714, I see no huge celebration. He has played ( like Ruth ) since he was a teenager in Seattle, but Ruth started as a pitcher, and might have added to his 714 total. Of course he was not a great " off season " conditioning guru, as many athletes are today, so he squandered a lot of prime time opportunities, and he also started in the dead ball era in parks that were still quite large. Shibe Park,  Tiger Stadium, the old Huntington Station ( pre Fenway folks ), and Old Comiskey were cavernous parks.

Derek and Elmo - discuss being humble

One final reminder Alex, as hard as you try , that Jeter fellow will always come out on top in New York, he just comes across more the hero, he cried when Bob Sheppard past away, as well for The Boss, while Arod just spilled out the pre packaged verbiage, nothing seems real, but The Kid will be revered, you will be remembered.


Maye Alex, see if Big Bird is busy.....