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I know I have a dirty mind. (That's why you love me, right?) But it doesn't take a gutter-loving queen to read between the lines of this ostensibly straight-forward piece in the Los Angeles Times sports section:
It was the kind of vision American League pitchers dream about.
Here was Alex Rodriguez backed up against a wall. Trapped. And all he could do was blink his hazel eyes, swallow hard and accept the punishment he was about to receive.
God, I love baseball. Even the punchline sounds sort of kinky:
"OK, what have you got?" he began, kicking off an impromptu media conference in the third-base dugout at Tropicana Field on Tuesday.
Rodriguez is hardly media-shy, but these days he admits he'd rather face Josh Beckett's fastball than a reporter's tape recorder.
"They're both hard," he said.
I bet they are! Okay, what this article is really about is that A-Rod's having a killer year. So great, in fact, that there are whole schools of thought about "how A-Rod has suddenly become Hot Rod." Is it his swing? His mind? His body? Or...is it something just a little more precious:
It's the socks: For the first time in his career, Rodriguez is wearing old-school knickers and knee-high socks, which led one New York writer to credit haute couture for the hot start, a theory [batting coach Kevin] Long playfully endorses. "I don't know where he came up with that," he says, "but I think it looks great."
Obviously we all know that the real reason is because he finally kissed and made up with Derek Jeter.
But please remember the ways in which allegedly straight sports dudes will talk about A-Rod's socks in such passionate detail, especially if you have a baseball-obsessed straight guy in your family who mocks you for following the finer points of every new Madonna tour.
See further recent evidence of Derek & A-Rod's reconciliation after the jump!
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