My Last A-Rod Post (I swear!!!)

So A-Rod opts out of his contract, and everybody goes apeshit about his disloyalty and what an ungrateful prick he is. He played here only four years, all during which he was reviled, never accepted by the fans, media, or the team itself and was blamed for every postseason failure, yet we are OUTRAGED!! at his lack of loyalty to the Yankees by not gleefully accepting whatever they will offer him. No loyalty!! we scream on the radio and in every paper. Now it turns out Pettitte and Posada have done the same thing. Now here are two "real" Yankees, there at the beginning of the dynasty, each with 4 rings. Key members of the great Yankee teams that have held the city's collective heart over the last decade plus. And here they are, doing what A-Rod has done, and nobody, NOT A SINGLE PERSON, is screaming about what douchebags they are. "Real" Yankees, we call them. Yet we don't mind if they're not "loyal" to the Yankees by daring to sniff around - no no, we only question and fume over A-Rod doing it. Posasa, in fact, is being APPLAUDED for really putting the squeeze on the Yanks, knowing they're desperate for a catcher and will hafta really back up the money truck for him. This, we don't seem to mind. What the fuck?