As the Phillies prepare for their first prime-time game on Sunday Night Baseball in five years, ESPN analyst and former MLB star Alex Rodriguez had an honest assessment of how he’s performed in his first season calling games in the booth.
“I’ll be the first one to say that I stink, so no one has to remind me,” Rodriguez, a former third baseman with the New York Yankees, told the Inquirer and Daily News. “I’m supposed to suck.”
In a move that many sports-media pundits compared to CBS hiring former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Rodriguez joined ESPN in the offseason to replace new Yankees manager Aaron Boone in a unique deal that allows him to return to Fox Sports as a studio analyst during the postseason.