Biggest Jerk of The Day Contest

First things first: congratulations, NE'Guy, on your team winning the most boring World Series I've ever seen. I fell asleep in the middle of two out of four games, and it would have been three out of four if my friend Rondal hadn't baked me cookies (in a very masculine, heterosexual way).

Now, for our contestants:

In this corner, Alex Rodriguez, who opted out of his contract:

-by text message
-through his agent
-without returning multiple phone calls from Yankee owners, let alone accepting their offer to sit down and talk in person
-during the World Series
-more specifically, during a World Series game that he also declined to attend to accept his Hank Aaron award -- from Hank Aaron -- due to "family commitments."

You, sir, are a classless jerk, and I pray to all the gods in whom I don't believe (and who, in turn, clearly didn't believe in the Rockies' destiny neither) that you win the MVP playing for the third-place Giants every remaining year of your career.

In this corner, Hank Steinbrenner, who responded by saying:

- "If you don’t understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it’s pretty obvious.”
- “If we’re going to make you rich and we’re going to give you the privilege of being a Yankee, you’ve got to show us you want to be here.”
- and, finally, “Does he want to go into the Hall of Fame as a Yankee,” Steinbrenner said, “or a Toledo Mud Hen?”

You, sir, are a classless jerk, and I will save those quotes for the next time a Yankee fan tries to explain that everyone else in baseball dislikes them because of their success. No, we dislike you because of your overwhelming arrogance, as perfectly exemplified here.

But of course, neither is the worst person in the world.