A-Rod is hijacking the World Series

The battle for New York may not be as one-sided as it appeared a few days ago.  First The Captain announces his engagement on Tuesday night, setting the internet on fire just moments before the first pitch of Game 1.  Then Andrew Miller took to the field at Kauffman Stadium alongside the GOAT before Game 2 to accept his greatest reliever in the world award.  All the while A-Rod is becoming has become the star of the World Series.  

The Fox panel has become the final stop on the 2015 Alex Rodriguez apology tour.  And after everything he did this year, coming back from a year off at the age of 40 to put up the numbers he did, turning the entire Yankee fanbase around and garnering their unanimous support throughout the season, what he's doing with Fox right now is the most impressive.  For him to make himself so available and actually appear likable on TV is something I'd never thought I'd see in a billion years.

Now it doesn't look like he's 100% comfortable yet (he shattered a television with a football his first day on the job).  Sometimes it sounds like he's reading from a script when they ask him those monotonous questions during the pregame.  But once the cameras were off him and the focus was on the game he really dug in and kicked the shit out of it.  That fourth inning he became a star.  He basically had the whole country imploring fox to throw Reynolds and Verducci out of the booth mid-game so that A-Rod and his cognitive baseball analysis could bounce off Buck for the next five innings.

Hate him or love him, nobody on Earth loves baseball more than Alex Rodriguez.  That conversation in the fourth inning was so comfortable for him because it was all about the complexities of baseball.  The intricacies of facing a guy like Jacob deGrom.  Nobody knows more about that stuff than A-Rod.  He's the ultimate thinking-man's hitter, sometimes to a fault.  He's always trying to anticipate the pitch.  Getting inside his brain during a game, especially when there's a guy on the mound who he's familiar with, is really a pleasure to listen to if you're a baseball fan.

So basically what I'm trying to say is the Yankees are back.  They still run the city.  The Mets are about to get swept.  They're going to lose their two best hitters in the offseason and by Opening Day 2016 their offense is going to suck again.  So just hang tight for a few more days and we can go back to living in the world we're accustomed to.  A world where the Mets are a punchline and the Yankees carry the torch for New York.  The way it should be.