Tom Verducci: Currently Enemy #1

This guy comes out a month after the actual story with a few new quotes that only he has and now once again A-Rod is a hot topic. Ugh, way to waste countless hours of my sports talk radio listening on the same Arod topic that was boring to talk about almost the immediate second it started.

Verducci while being interviewed on Mike & Mike this morning, admitted that the majority of the quotes he recieved for this article were amidst Arod's major slump, which was a full month ago. I don't care about Giambi's quotes or Arod's quote. Giambi along with every other Yankee said that Arod needed to perform. And Arod made the typical, speak before I open my mouth statement.

We get it, Arod is a loner, he doesn't have a ton of friends on the team. He's a private guy who has a better personality for a individual sport like golf than a team sport like baseball. We get this we've known this, its old news, now the opening remarks on all New York Sports radio talk shows as well as segments on PTI, Around the Horn, Sportscenter, etc. will resolve around an old issue which I am completely sick of listening to.

Thanks Tom, for publishing something a month late, with a few interesting quotes to revive a dead story.

While you're at it lets get some quotes about Barry Bonds sucking down horse testosterone or Pete Rose at the track so we can discuss those like their new.

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