Shut the *%&$ Up, Giambi
By I’m with Mr. Trend; however you feel about A-Rod, this from Jason Giambi is absurd and uncalled for. The garbage about “getting the big hit” is just that; undoubtedly Jason remembers his own big hits much more clearly than the runs that A-Rod drives in. The most ridiculous part of this is that it comes with the Yankees up by 11 games. Great teams don’t need “the big hit” to win; they win their games by five runs, and their divisions by ten games. Moreover, whatever problems A-Rod has had in the field this year, it’s nonsense to even consider him on the same level as Jason “I’m a bad fielder for a DH” Giambi. Finally, as Trend notes, A-Rod has never been accused of juicing, while Giambi’s record is, well, a little bit less than clean on that score.
The pity is that I’ve always kind of liked Giambi more than A-Rod, at least since the latter left Seattle. But watching Jason (who is a marginal-at-best HoF candidate) mock a genuine inner circle HoFer in a year in which, defense included, Rodriguez has contributed more than Giambi gets my dander up.