Baseball legend Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez retired from the playfield in 2016. While his playing career was over by then, he didn’t completely part ways with his beloved sport. Alex turned into a broadcaster. The Boston Red Sox fans remember that he also retired from a four-year-long high-profile love relationship. His lady love was pop music megastar Jennifer ‘J-Lo’ Lopez.
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Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez is an iconic baseball legend immortalized in the New York Yankees jersey. Whereas Jennifer ‘J-Lo’ Lopez is a famous singer whose popularity knows no bounds. They were America’s darling celebrity couple at a time. But it was all short-lived.
A sporting hero for the Yankees fans, Alex Rodriguez was however a villain in the Red Sox fan community’s playbook. If the Yankees fans cheered for ‘A-Rod’, the Red Sox fans jeered at him. Not much has changed yet, as it seems.?
Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez vs Red Sox Fans: The heat is still on?
Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez?and Jennifer ‘J-Lo’ Lopez began dating in 2017. Four years later, the starry couple separated post-engagement. Those are prime highlight facts for Red Sox fans. In the 2021 MLB season, ‘A-Rod’ sat down in the expert panel for a game analysis of a Boston Red Sox vs. Houston Astros game. The Red Sox fans soon took their chances.
Red Sox fans ruthlessly trolled ‘A-Rod’ with chants of ‘J-Lo’ and actor Ben Affleck. The loud narrative was, “She left you with Ben Affleck.” Red Sox fans never cared about what the Yankees thought. No matter how beloved ‘A-Rod’ was for the Yankees family, the Red Sox family, on the other hand, always hated him. So some even took to social media to build on the agony.?
https://twitter.com/jennyxblock/status/1450246772757041154?s=20&t=ZwXx1Ikp2lv-OYhFHhiMdQ
Another Red Sox fan further added.?
She left you with Ben Affleck 😂 pic.twitter.com/LTIGrWiGaY
— ❀ (@itschristelmay) October 19, 2021
Some similar set of thoughts.?
Trying to escape the #Bennifer wedding news. #jlo #BenAffleck pic.twitter.com/1P0CFAilVT
— hi. 👋🏽👩🏾💻🕊 (@Deeps628) July 19, 2022
And for the defense, there was also some support for ‘A-Rod’.?
Let the poor man live his life
— Faustina Diaz (@Faustin01014038) October 19, 2021
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The Yankees fans always loved ‘A-Rod’ through & through, and it was the polar opposite with Red Sox fans.?
Can they have a breakup too??
Alex Rodriguez retired from baseball six years ago. He broke up his engagement and relationship with Jennifer Lopez more than a year ago. But after all these years, the Red Sox fans still don’t seem to part ways with him. As it seems, it’s easy to lose friends but not a foe, maybe.
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Will the devoted Red Sox fans ever see Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez as someone more than just another Yankee??