The A-Rod quagmire
Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, “Yankee Go Home.” New York Times, November 3, 2006: TRADE A-Rod?s continued failure to deliver in the clutch is diverting critical resources and dividing our team. He must go. We need to move on, now! KEEP Trading A-Rod would lead to a disaster in the American League East. It would ...
Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, "Yankee Go Home." New York Times, November 3, 2006: TRADE A-Rod?s continued failure to deliver in the clutch is diverting critical resources and dividing our team. He must go. We need to move on, now! KEEP Trading A-Rod would lead to a disaster in the American League East. It would embolden other teams and threaten future Yankee clubs. To cut and run is not an option.... TRADE We?re sending our kids to fight an endless war in Boston, when it?s Detroit that attacked us. After we swept the Red Sox in August, you hung out your Mission Accomplished banner, but nothing has been accomplished. KEEP The Yankees never said it was over. The news media said it was over. And I acknowledge the challenges. We must adapt. We must heed the experts. Joe Torre and his coaches have said they believe A-Rod should come back. We must listen to them. TRADE Those are the same ?experts? that batted A-Rod eighth! KEEP You would stoop so low as to attack Joe Torre? Have you no shame? Have you no shame! Best. Op-ed. Ever.
Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, “Yankee Go Home.” New York Times, November 3, 2006:
TRADE A-Rod?s continued failure to deliver in the clutch is diverting critical resources and dividing our team. He must go. We need to move on, now! KEEP Trading A-Rod would lead to a disaster in the American League East. It would embolden other teams and threaten future Yankee clubs. To cut and run is not an option…. TRADE We?re sending our kids to fight an endless war in Boston, when it?s Detroit that attacked us. After we swept the Red Sox in August, you hung out your Mission Accomplished banner, but nothing has been accomplished. KEEP The Yankees never said it was over. The news media said it was over. And I acknowledge the challenges. We must adapt. We must heed the experts. Joe Torre and his coaches have said they believe A-Rod should come back. We must listen to them. TRADE Those are the same ?experts? that batted A-Rod eighth! KEEP You would stoop so low as to attack Joe Torre? Have you no shame? Have you no shame!
Best. Op-ed. Ever.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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