{"id":94,"date":"2019-06-22T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/?p=94"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T12:37:07","slug":"a-year-in-the-life-of-a-major-leaguer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-major-leaguer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in the Life of a Major Leaguer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A-ROD vs. SCHILL: THE DIFFERENCE THAT ONE YEAR CAN MAKE IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR LEAGUER The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez made waves over the past few weeks, as he took several jabs at Boston’s Curt Schilling. Excerpt from A-Rod: “To me, it was just odd, because I mean we beat him a couple of times during the year and he was crying on the bench. And then he lost Game 1 (of the ALCS) and he wouldn’t talk or anything. And, obviously, he wins Game 6 and then he’s still talking ’til today.” Schill, of course, quickly considered the source and wisely concluded that A-Rod was trying to motivate his teammates by inflaming the situation: “If that’s what he needs, cool,” Schilling said. A-Rod went on to admit that he took the loss to Boston very hard: “It’s been hard to sleep thinking about that.” Inspired by this exchange of words, we decided to draw up a list of the differences between these two high-profile players. Here goes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.Schilling walks with a gait that most of us would recognize as masculine and human. A-Rod jogs with a gait that is best-described as a gazelle mating prance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.After getting doinked by Bronson Arroyo during the regular season, A-Rod spends months plotting revenge and ultimately selects the “limp-wristed, forearm slap” as his rebuttal of choice. Schill gets roughed up in Game 1 of the ALCS and opts to get even quickly by stifling Yankees hitters with a gutsy Game 6 performance that everyone (not just Schill) is still talking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Schill could buy a hotdog at his home stadium in late October. A-Rod couldn’t. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    7.The stitching of Jason Varitek’s glove gets introduced to A-Rod’s running mouth, and the game later ends in a Sox win. The stitching of Boston’s team doctor gets introduced to Schill’s ankle, and the game later ends in a Sox win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6.The good-natured Schilling arrives in Boston and immediately amuses the Sox faithful with entertaining Dunkin Donuts commercials that show him struggling as he practices his Boston accent. The self-important A-Rod is targeted by MTV’s Punk’d (all in good fun) but gets upset and later demands that the tapes of the prank be destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Schill is sleeping just fine these days. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      4.Diamondbacks struggle after Schilling’s departure. The Rangers become one of baseball’s most-improved teams after A-Rod flies the coop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. The biggest controversy surrounding Schill’s teammate at first base is his decision to keep a historical World Series ball. The biggest controversy surrounding A-Rod’s teammate at first base is, well, you know\u2026 <\/li>
      2. Manager’s words of wisdom to Schilling as spring training approaches: “Keep doing what you’re doing.” Manager’s words of wisdom to A-Rod as spring training approaches: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” <\/li>
      3. Schill’s got the ’04 World Series bling-ring! <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        A-ROD vs. SCHILL: THE DIFFERENCE THAT ONE YEAR CAN MAKE IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR LEAGUER The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez made waves over the past few weeks, as he took several jabs at Boston’s Curt Schilling. Excerpt from A-Rod: “To me, it was just odd, because I mean we beat him a couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yankees-hater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeshater.com\/poison-pen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}