June 22, 2015
The plan failed.
The original script for the return of Alex Rodriguez was supposed to be something akin to Cersei Lannister’s stroll through town on the “Game Of Thrones” finale. Crimes announced, stripped down, “shame” bell rung, the whole shebang.
But instead, something else completely happened: A-Rod somehow came out on top. In the push to make sure the point was hammered home that he was to be treated as hostile as possible, he became over-vilified. People actually began to feel sorry for him, and as he continued to surpass milestone after milestone, the villain stole the show in a fashion that we have not seen since the days of Reggie Jackson in The Bronx.