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A-Rodはエラーが多いからE-Rodと呼ばれているとか。
年間20億ももらってエラーしたらそりゃなあ

A-Rod, Jeter are Yankees of different pinstripes

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/yankees/2006-09-28-cover-arod-jeter_x.htm

They stand next to each other on baseball's most famous field, but their lockers are on opposite sides of the Yankee Stadium clubhouse.

こういう導入はいいですね。うまい。

さらにこのメタファーの裏を説明します。

Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez are the game's most marketable players, have the sport's richest contracts, produce some of its most spectacular performances. Yet, judging by their public images, these megastars might as well be on opposite sides of the planet.

さきほどはopposite sides of the Yankee Stadium clubhouse. でしたが
opposite sides of the planetとさらに拡大。
二人のイメージのギャップを見事に出しています。

その原因を具体的に説明

Jeter is an unquestioned hero, the captain and face of the Yankees, defined by his four World Series championships with the team. Rodriguez might never be able to hit enough home runs or win enough titles to escape the shadow cast by his unprecedented 10-year, $252 million contract.

巨額な年俸が Rodriguez に投げかける影から抜け出すほどの
活躍をしていないと説明。

Both enhance their significant incomes with calculated marketing strategies, yet while the intense Rodriguez is painted as the cold, calculating mercenary, Jeter comes across as pop-star cool.

Rodriguez the cold, calculating mercenary

Jeter comes across as pop-star cool.

この対照。
ＮＹのメディア　ファンからのブーイングで

"I would have thought he'd have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge by now," says Doug Mientkiewicz, the Kansas City Royals first baseman who was Rodriguez's high school teammate and childhood neighbor in Coral Gables, Fla.

と Rodriguezの同級生に言われる始末。
がんばれエーロド