I think some are assuming the disdain for A-Rod derives solely from the positive drug test or his "weird personality".
There are three teams that naturally the bulk of his fanbase would come from -- the Seattle Mariners, the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees.
Yankees - We've all seen what has gone on the last few years and why Yankees fans who want the best for their team would not be happy with A-Rod.
Mariners - Justified or not, many M's fan are still mad that A-Rod left for the big pay day and wasn't loyal to Seattle (even though history showed he made moves that favored his first team more-so than many players do).
Rangers - In a 60 Minutes interview he basically threw the Rangers franchise under the bus, claiming that he never did PED's while in Seattle and hasn't/hadn't done them as a Yankee (which we learned later was of coursea lie). It was that bad Texas clubhouse that got him using. An easy scapegoat because on the national baseball landscape no one really cared about Texas (and they were still mostly viewed as clowns because of the contract they gave him -- again, not necessarily justified). Then he went on to say that he was playing with a "bunch of kids" in Texas.
When your rival fanbases are naturally going to hate you and you rub the 3 fanbases you've played for the wrong way, then you haven't got a whole lotta fans left.
There are three teams that naturally the bulk of his fanbase would come from -- the Seattle Mariners, the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees.
Yankees - We've all seen what has gone on the last few years and why Yankees fans who want the best for their team would not be happy with A-Rod.
Mariners - Justified or not, many M's fan are still mad that A-Rod left for the big pay day and wasn't loyal to Seattle (even though history showed he made moves that favored his first team more-so than many players do).
Rangers - In a 60 Minutes interview he basically threw the Rangers franchise under the bus, claiming that he never did PED's while in Seattle and hasn't/hadn't done them as a Yankee (which we learned later was of coursea lie). It was that bad Texas clubhouse that got him using. An easy scapegoat because on the national baseball landscape no one really cared about Texas (and they were still mostly viewed as clowns because of the contract they gave him -- again, not necessarily justified). Then he went on to say that he was playing with a "bunch of kids" in Texas.
When your rival fanbases are naturally going to hate you and you rub the 3 fanbases you've played for the wrong way, then you haven't got a whole lotta fans left.