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This post was written by Ivan Guzman, a 15-year-old from the Bronx. Read more about Ivan here:
I have so many things I want to write about dealing with politics and sports, I'm writing two blogs this week. If you're not good at math, that's one for politics and one for sports. If math really isn't one of your strengths then we have something in common. This is my sports blog, read my politics blog here:
The Super Bowl is tomorrow and unless the Giants miraculously (and I MEAN miraculously) make it to the big game then I don't care who wins. I will say that I think the Steelers will win because if anything wins championships in sports (football especially) it's defense.
What I really wanted to write about is baseball. This week some excerpts from Joe Torre's book "The Yankee Years" were released. In this book Joe Torre claims that Alex Rodriguez was obsessed with Derek Jeter, and that some players called Alex A-Fraud. First of all, why does Torre even care that A-Rod was obsessed with Jeter, that's none of his business. Second, I think there's a lot of people who call Alex A-Fraud for many things. Some of those include his performance in the playoffs (or lack thereof), his marriage problems, and his flip-flopping from teams in the World Baseball Classic (from U.S.A. to the Dominican Republic). So when I heard A-Rod say that he laughed off what Torre said about him, I believed him because the guy has enough problems. The funny thing is I expected Torre to do something like this when he retired, not while he's still managing a team. I hope that Interleague play brings the Dodgers to Yankee Stadium to play against the Yankees. After all this the Yankees are considering putting confidentiality agreements in their contracts. Even though it makes them look pretty paranoid, I say why not. The Mets do it. Of course no one (other than Mets fans) puts the Yankees and Mets in the same standard of franchises in Baseball. This book made me lose a little bit of respect for Torre. He sort of tarnished his last years with the Yankees (not that they were all that great anyway). More...