Originally posted by goombah: If this guy wasn't in NY, he wouldn't be under the microscope he's been viewed.
But he is in NY, and as his career stats have shown, he did better when he wasn't under the NY microscope.
Problem is, he's a super-duper star and expected to follow in the Ruth-Gehrig-DiMaggio-Mantle-Mattingly tradition of being not only the teams offensive leader, but their emotional and inspirational leader also, and he just ain't doing any of it - at least not this year.
Hence the criticism, which is justified - at least this year, IMO.
