The Alex Rodriguez Smiley

I will say it right here right now. I hated Alex Rodriguez every year except 2007.  I hated that he couldn't drive runs in, and I hated that he is the worst playoff player in the history of any sport ever. In 2007 he finally won over my and New York's hearts with his ridiculously awesome MVP performance.

Me and my friend, whenever he'd homer, would talk to each other online and discuss how A-Rod homered seventeen times in the same inning, and then follow it up with the A-Rod smiley face.

You see, in post game interviews, Alex has a habit of making the same face between each and every question:

So, how can we NOT make fun of this?

Well, we did.

Let's compare. The original smiley:

:)

The A-Rod smiley

:I

With affection we'd scream, "AROD!!! :I" 

Then Selina Roberts ruined it all. And we are all back to hating him. And he is a cheater and deserves all the hell he gets for cheating, and just being an overall fail of a human being. And until he can prove to me that he is clean, and that he is changed, I will hate him. And he will always be A-Rod*

:I *