Does Anyone Really Like A-Rod?

Alex Rodriguez is fairly universally hated, disliked, scorned, mocked and trashed, even by Yankees fans. Does anyone really actually like him?

Does it really matter if he's liked? Well, no. I hate him and hate to admit this, but he is supremely talented, drug-use aside. But talent does not make asshattery any more palatable. And he seems to be successful at the baseball regardless of whether he's admired for being himself.

Admittedly, as a long-time Mariner's fan, I have 252 million reasons to hate him, to think he's a selfish jerk and a turncoat of Lebron Jamesian proportions. He's the guy who claimed that, after he departed the team and the Mariners went on to win 116 games in 2001, that those wins were courtesy of him—that he helped create that team, and he was, therefore, a part of all those wins. Yes, while he played for another American League West team. Seriously?

But it seems that the team members in Texas disliked him, the fans despised him and felt that his huge albatross of a contract meant that they couldn't gather up a winning team. So all those people are out of the likers too.

And even Yankees fans do not seem to be a fan of him personally. I'm sure they appreciate him helping the team out, but I don't think he's winning any personality contests there, either, which is striking, because few Yankees fans would win them either. Hardee har har. I'm joking. Don't come after me.

And now he has even filed an objection to the poor bankrupt Texas Rangers, because they haven't compensated him all the way, and when he's swimming through his Vault O'Millions, he can detect that he's missing a few cool pieces of coin. Seriously? When you make gobs and gobs of money, is $25 million really going to change things all that much? "Oh, well I was going to buy a fleet of 747s, but if I had that extra $25 million, I could add a 777 for those special trips" (Silly me, I just looked it up. Apparently, it costs at least $205 million for a 777. Though, with what Alex has made so far in his career, he could actually afford that ...).

Clearly, also, his ex wife is not a huge fan, and I wonder how Madonna and Kate Hudson feel about him now.

Anyhoodle, I guess the point is that I don't like him, I don't know anyone who actually likes him, and I wonder if there is anyone out there who would want to go hang with A-Rod, go have a beer after work, and talk all about him and his various achievements and his awesomeness and how he's the youngest to 600 home runs blah blah ... I sure wouldn't.