This long article in SI is sure to be a big topic on all the national sports talk shows in the next couple of days. Here are a couple of weird passages: He thinks people criticize him because he's...biracial? And even though the writer was clearly baiting him into comparing contract numbers with his teammates, it's pretty much not cool to throw them under the bus like that. Also, there's this amusing anecdote about Reggie Jackson that I hadn't heard before, in a part of the article that talks about Reggie trying to give A-Rod some advice about the kind of struggles that he (Reggie) had also been through in New York:
