Posted: 3:44 am
July 6, 2008
* Alex Rodriguez is a great baseball player with a ton of stats, an effortless swing, a good glove and good baserunning instincts. He excelled on poor teams like the Mariners and the Rangers - and that is where he should be. The Yankees haven't had a bit of luck since they got him. He does not belong in a Yankee uniform because he has the heart of a loser. There is a big discrepancy in lifetime stats, but I would take Scott Brosius over Rodriguez in a New York minute.
RJ WALSH
Ramsey, N.J.
* I now know why I turn first to The Post's sports section, rather than the front page: I care more about Alex Rodriguez's conquests on the ball field, and with his Courage for Life Foundation, than about his supposed backdoor slider with an over-the-hill, Kabbalah-ist pop tart.
T. KING
Manhattan
* It's hard to ignore Hank Steinbrenner's comment that players must focus less on being "good people," by doing charity work a day after Alex Rodriguez spent the day with a cancer patient from Pittsburgh and drove him from the airport to a Yankees game. Maybe I'm the only one, but I'm having trouble finding the correlation between fulfilling a sick child's wish and quality at-bats. It was ill-advised and bad timing on Steinbrenner's part. Kudos to Rodriguez, who has gone from Yankees fans' favorite scapegoat to beloved third baseman in a few short years.
DAN MAHONEY
Troy, N.J.
Attaboy, Johan
* A Mets player, Johan Santana, finally has the clout and the guts to call out his teammates for playing like gutless losers and the result is that he's taken to task? The Mets' 2008 season is officially doomed.
JOHNNY STYNE
Manhattan
