Mr. 2999

With 2 hits tonight A-Rod is sitting on 2,999 for his career; with another at-bat tonight waiting, he might get that magical 3,000th tonight.  Fours years ago I wrote this:

It'll be interesting to see how Yankee fans handle A-Rod's chase for 3,000 hits; he's only 238 away, meaning it could come as soon as the end of next season-ish.  Obviously Jeter is venerated in a unique way, and our celebrating his approaching milestone is also a way to bask in the 5 championships he helped bring the Yankees.  Meanwhile, a lot of people hate A-Rod for  not being Derek Jeter  flying jets into the World Trade Center, so I wonder if it will be somewhat muted.  Fans are possessive of Jeter's greatness, and tend to get agitated whenever A-Rod slides into the picture.  It also doesn't help that Jeter will be only the 10th player to get all 3,000 with one team, while A-Rod was in Seattle and Texas before joining the Yankees in 2004.  I'm also surprised A-Rod only has 300 more strikeouts than Jeter, which is less than 20/year.  Seems like a classic home run hitter would have way more than a singles slapper.  Also, that Kim Kardashian has some nice titties, doesn't she?

So far tonight the Yankees fans have been pretty delirious in their rotting for A-Rod to get the hit (not Jeter-esque, of course), probably because of a combination of three things: some backlash against the over-reach vis-a-vis the A-Rod hate, the fact that A-Rod is one of the best Yankee hitters this year, and of course if history is to be made you want ti to happen when you're there.

I look forward to the 9th, when A-Rod hopefully gets another crack at it.