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Old 07-27-2015, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by HRBAKER View Post
It doesn't matter to me whether he gets it or not. ARod will always be the supreme narcissist to me. Tons and tons of natural talent but it wasn't enough. His lying and lying and lying and cheating reveal his true character to me. He will always be dogged by being the guy with a mountain of stats and no clear way to determine what he would have really done on his own. In a couple of years he will be gone and go down as one of the most successful of the PED era. Good for him, it neither erases what he did or who he was.
He may never get over the comparisons to Jeter, who was so much more beloved despite being far less talented.
For me, his defining moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPNcrvR46Q
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