Cheered and Jeered
By lefty
The Yankees newly acquired first baseman, John Olerud, should get a warm reception tonight when the Evil Empire takes on his former team of the Seattle Mariners, even though he’s given Yankee fans more to cheer about this season. David Anderson predicted the warm reception in his story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Click here to read his story.
In Olerud's short time with the Yankees, the three-time Gold Glove winner, (2000,2002,2003) and owner of two World Series rings has awoken his sleepy bat. The Seattle Mariners released him July 27 in the midst of a slumping season, and after he turned down a trade to the San Francisco Giants. With Seattle, Olerud was batting .245 with 22 RBI’s in 78 games. In eight games as a Yankee Olerud is batting .345 and has 9 RBI’s.
The lefthander is well known in New York for riding the subway to games when he played for the New York Mets in 97,98,99. Olerud won the 1993 AL batting champion with an average of .363 while playing for Toronto.
The reception Alex Rodriguez gets will be a little bit different however. According to this story by reporter David Anderson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, A-Rod can expect about 45,000 boos.
