Of course it’s getting to him, as it would get to anyone that constantly had to answer ridiculous quesions. We’re not treating ARod the way we treat Jeter or others. This isn’t about winning titles or the built-up trust, this is about something I can’t put my finger on but it’s not legitimate or baseball-related. On Sunday, ARod made some great plays and hit a big homer to put us up for good. On the same day, Jeter made an error that could’ve cost the Yankees the game. No one said a peep.

I’m not going to get into the booing topic again because that’s sort of irrelevant in this conversation. But I will say that when other players have an especially bad game, the fans and writers simply move on. With this guy, we harp and harp and harp and try to overanalyze everything.

I hate the feeding frenzy of New York. Unfortunately I’ve contributed to it by even responding here. Until there’s something else to talk about, I’ll keep my mouth closed on this topic. ARod is going to be fine and he’s not the second coming of Chuck Knoblauch. Jeez.

Go for it Jen!

MJ – did you see Alex on the YES post-game last night? I think it is getting to him.

When they asked him why so many errors in this game, when he was so good last year, he said “What about yesterday, I was good yesterday.” in a snappy fashion.

Worm Killer. I like that. If you don’t mind, Steve, I think I may use that (with the appropriate link back to you of course).

If anyone watched Baseball Tonight on ESPN, they started with the Knoblauch talk. It’s unbelievable how badly everyone from the national media to the average Yankee fan overreacts to everything about ARod. If I were him, I’d hate everyone. It’s a credit to him that he doesn’t.

It’s only too bad that no matter what, this story will build up steam and create another feeding frenzy around the morons that hate ARod for their own ridiculous reasons.