Seattle loved Alex Rodriguez until a $250 million contract from Texas turned it into beef

It had nothing to do with him having paintings of himself as a centaur or kissing his own reflection... at first.

What’s that expression, “Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned”? Oh, I just looked it up. It’s, “like a woman scorned.” Okay, well, that’s needlessly gendered and now I’m offended.

What I’m trying to say is that Seattle used to really love Alex Rodriguez, and that’s why everything got so beefy when things, and people, went south.

When the Mariners drafted Alex Rodriguez...