Dallas Braden is just Perfect

The Dallas Braden vs. Alex Rodriguez feud is pretty well-known to those who watch SportsCenter as much as I do. For those of you who don't know, I'll tell you right now.

Gay-Rod, or Small-Rod, whichever you prefer, was running from first to third on a foul ball or something like that. On his way back to first base, he ran across the pitcher's mound, which Braden was still standing on. Braden flipped out on him at the time and after the game. A-Rod had violated one of the unwritten baseball rules.

Gay-Rod made some remarks after that game: "He just told me to get off his mound. That was a little surprising. I've never quite heard that - especially from a guy that has a handful of wins in his career."

Basically, Rodriguez's point was that since he was better than Braden, and that Braden wasn't a proven player, that he was allowed to do whatever he wanted to the lesser player. Even though he had wronged Braden, he felt that since Braden hadn't really done anything, he wasn't allowed to tell him off.

But that all changed today. Dallas Braden just threw a perfect game, something only 18 other people have done in the long history of Major League Baseball. For those non-sports junkies out there, a perfect game is when a pitcher does not allow a single batter to reach base in a given game. So, it's really, really impressive.

Now that Braden has thrown a perfect game, which in my opinion, is better than any single thing A-Rod has ever done has a player; does that mean that he'll admit he was wrong?

I really doubt it. A-Rod's had a history of dickishness. (In other news, "dickishness" is a great word.) In a game a few years back, there was a pop fly hit in the infield and he was running the bases. As he passed the fielder that had lined the ball up and was preparing to catch it, he yelled "Got it!" which caused the fielder to move away from the ball, which led to the ball falling to the ground, uncaught.

So clearly, the "unwritten rules of baseball" don't apply to A-Rod.

Also, the written rules of baseball don't apply to A-Rod. Like, steroid use. Which he did, and nobody really seemed to care. And, during the 2004 ALCS Game 6, when he thought it would be a grand idea to smack the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove, while Arroyo was on the Red Sox. He was caught, called out, and the Yankees completed the worst collapse in the history of sports.

That was awesome too.

My point is that A-Rod, along with many other big-name athletes, is an ass, and karma strikes him constantly. And every time it does, I laugh a winner's laugh. Hopefully, after Dallas Braden's dominance of the best team in baseball, the Yankees will have to disband the franchise or something.

Karma is good for other reasons, too. Dallas Braden's mother died of cancer, so it's fitting that something this good can happen to a guy who has suffered something that bad.

So congratulations to Dallas Braden. You deserve it. And for A-Rod? Well, he can suck it.