A-Rod Is a Slumlord
Alex Rodriguez is rich and, like many wealthy men, he owns a lot of real estate. According to the New York Times some of his real estate is in disrepair and his tenants aren’t too pleased.
Some residents here tell tales of roaches overtaking kitchen cabinets in a bumper-to-bumper crawl to the corn flakes, of carpets stained in the 1990s and quick-trigger evictions.
“My mom comes here and she ain’t no rich person, but she thinks I live in the projects,” said Miguel Ruiz as he sat on the second-floor landing of Building 2-A on a recent Sunday afternoon. “She’s scared to come over here, for real.”
As Ruiz spoke, he pulled a boy named Elijah from a gap in the railing that opened when yet another piece of the banister rattled loose and fell to the ground.
“See, stuff like that, with kids around, it’s messed up here,” Ruiz said, adding, “Honestly, I was raised in a ghetto and I was brought up a little better than this.”
Bold emphasis mine. Enough people already hate A-Rod: Everyone in Seattle, Texas and Boston. Even his own fans and maybe his teammates. Most of the time, I think he gets a bad rap. I mean who am I to hate on a guy just because he’s good enough and ambitious enough to make $300 million. But when you read stuff like this, it becomes impossible to defend him. Maybe A-Rod can take some of his $30 million paycheck next season and buy some banisters and Raid.