November 5, 2009

A-Rod Likes Ring of New Reputation

Mark Hale, New York Post

Send to a Friend

AP Photo

Now that Alex Rodriguez has his first championship, Brian Cashman says A-Rod can just play to further his own legend.

“I think the rest of his career now he can just write history,” Cashman said after last night’s World Series championship. “He doesn’t have anything that he has to answer for anymore. He obviously has to produce, there’s no doubt about that. But he doesn’t have to be told he can’t do anything. He’s done everything now.

“And so now, he can sit back, and his work ethic and his play will take him just wherever it’ll take him.”

Read Full Article ››

TAGGED: world series 2009, New York Yankees, mlb, Alex Rodriguez

RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

October 28, 2009
A-Rod and Howard Shine This Postseason
Christian Red, NY Daily News
By the time Ryan Howard was drafted by the Phillies in the fifth round in June 2001, Alex Rodriguez was two months into his record $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers, already a bona fide star with several playoff trips... more ››
October 30, 2009
A-Rod Whiffing in First Series Opportunity
Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN
A-Rod to K-Rod? That will be the knee-jerk reaction to Alex Rodriguez's World Series plunge into 0-fer Land. And for once, the knee has a point. Scalding hot in the two previous rounds of this postseason, Rodriguez is now colder... more ››
November 5, 2009
A-Rod Wins Trophy, Struggles With Celebration
Big League Stew
It only took six seasons with the Yankees and 16 years overall, but Alex Rodriguez(notes) can finally call himself a World Series champion. The controversial third baseman is no longer among the greatest players to never win a... more ››
November 3, 2009
World Series Making Steroids Fade Into Past
Harvey Araton, NY Times
  Aided by his bat and an astute apology, Alex Rodriguez is ending the baseball season not as a former steroids user but as a home run hero. In the process, he may be clearing a path forward for himself and his much-maligned... more ››
November 1, 2009
One A-Rod Swing Changes Everything
Ian O'Connor, North Jersey Record
The slugger who had struck out six times in eight at-bats against the Phillies was suffering a severe crisis of Game 3 faith. Rodriguez was no longer the terminator who wiped out the Angels and Twins and his reputation as an... more ››