A-Rod reports early to spring training and puts on a show
The circus came to town early.
Alex Rodriguez walked into New York Yankees spring camp Monday, somewhat announced, decked out in University of Miami gear, turning baseball writers into would-be paparazzi with their “Look! A-Rod-is-here pictures.”
Rodriguez did what a guy who hasn’t played professional baseball in a year should have done: showed up three days early, reported to the field with the Yankees minor leaguers, worked out, took grounders, took batting practice and even hit a few over the fence.
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Our man Jeff Passan was on the scene and keeping tally:
All of baseball is watching every moment of The A-Rod Show this season: every homer, every strikeout, every grimace, every smile and every goofy A-Rod Face. (Sidenote: A-Rod Faces are the best, nobody does unintentionally funny faces better than our man Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez).
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Monday’s workout was quite a show — the A-Rod faces, we mean, not the BP session. But they’ll all be a show, because with A-Rod, there is no other option. So while you can debate whether he should retire already, after only his first workout session of 2015, we’ll happily enjoy this collection of weird A-Rod faces from his first day in camp.
That last one’s not goofy. It’s just a good ol’ A-Rod smile — a nice reminder that he IS human. At least, we think he is.
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