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Posada returned to normal on Sunday, apologizing to pretty much everyone in the organization except the bat boy. No one can blame Posada for being frustrated - he's no longer catching, he's batting .165 (with a .278 OBP), and he was slated to hit 9th on Saturday before he threw a fit. Posada chalked it up to a "bad day." “Everybody has a bad day," he said. "I think I just had one yesterday. And I’ll try to move on.”
We should all have the sort of "bad day" where we are scheduled to start a Major League Baseball game and get paid $80,864 for it. Posada is a competitive guy with pride, and there's nothing wrong with feeling frustrated. He's had a borderline hall-of-fame career and he's not yet able to accept that his time is nearly up. That's normal and that's fine.
Derek Jeter later came to the defense of his longtime teammate, saying: "If I thought he did something wrong, I'd be the first to tell him." Posada did do something wrong because he set a terrible example for younger players (and fans) by making Saturday about Jorge Posada rather than beating the Red Sox, to whom the Yankees lost. Posada isn't likely to make his displeasure so public again, but it's also not clear he has moved on. The Yankees are 20-18, in second place in the AL East and in the thick of what is shaping up to be a very tight division (the last-place Orioles are 19-20). The Yankees will have enough trouble fighting the other teams; they don't need to be fighting with their own players, too.
Carl Crawford batting 8th here in Boston and not anything like this Posada deal. Was sick of all the chatter
ReplyDeleteThe drive pride and determination that makes players like Jorge so great is the same which showed itself through frustration. Whether or not Jorge needs to retire, we'll see that very soon. But as far as classless or whining, I don't think it's at all what he was doing.
ReplyDeleteMoney has nothing to do with this either. If you think Jorge is a guy just happy to be punching the clock and cashing a check, you're wrong. This was about onfield play and his frustration with his own performance. If a player is happy to just be cashing a check, they aren't a player i want on my team
I posted a few articles on jorge as well. I think it's all just a small incident that's been blown out of proportion into a media generated event
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