There are myriad moments in A-Rod’s career that made his peers upset, and Cal Ripken Jr. just brought another one to light.
“Derek [Jeter] and I looked up, admiring, [Ripken’s] the reason I was able to play short, being so tall…I just wanted, as a fan, to have you one more time in your position,” Rodriguez said to Ripken on the FOX pregame show, referencing the 2001 moment.“Now that you brought it back up, I was kind of pissed at you,” Ripken Jr. said. “I was like looking at it, I hadn’t [played shortstop] in a while.
Rodriguez, then a 25-year-old star in the prime of his career with the Rangers, was starting for the American League at shortstop, the position Ripken Jr. had played until 1997, when age forced him to move to third base., Rodriguez asked Ripken Jr. to switch positions with him at the game in hopes of honoring the veteran’s heyday manning shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.
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