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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When he's hitting like he is this season, he can be happy anywhere. But sooner or later he'll have a rough patch again, and it seems to me -- from a distance -- that he likes being in NYC less than the next guy. If you say he needs the attention, maybe I'm wrong.
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He sure didn't like it the first few years. But he thinks he has New York figured out now. He looks comfortable, even when he's slumping this year and now understands that he can't pretend to have no weaknesses with the media. He has learned to make fun of himself and there is no doubt he relishes the attention and the extra endorsement money. When the negative attention is not baseball related, I think he enjoys that too.
If he has one really good postseason, he won't have to worry about rough patches.
Plus, if you're ARod, how do you want to break the hr record, retire and go into the Hall of Fame? As a Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim? I don't think so. You want the new Yankee Stadium to be called "The House that ARod built." (Nevermind that it won't be called that.) And you want your name to be linked to Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, etc.
If he leaves for an extra $2 million dollars a year, he's a moron. If he leaves because he would be happier in Anaheim or wherever, I can respect that.
TM
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