In honor of Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d dish out the Tool of the Week to a guy named Nixon. Trot Nixon.

He called out Alex Rodriguez last week – saying he wasn’t a true “Yankee” – which wasn’t that big a deal, but it led the way for a week-long dissfest where six of the Red Sox decided to take their shots at A-Rod.

The Sox are the defending champs, so they can say whatever they want. But calling people out individually is retarded. Especially when they guy you’re calling out has almost 400 career home runs and a career .305 batting average. Especially when the guy doing to calling out batted .207 against the Yankees in the ALCS last year.

That’s like C.C. Deville telling Keith Richards that he wasn’t a real Stone. Kindof. I don’t know.

What was A-Rod’s response?

"As far as earning your stripes, I really couldn't agree [more] with Trot Nixon and the guys that have said that because hopefully in due time, when I pay the price like Paul O'Neill and Roger Clemens did, then the fans of New York would realize that, hopefully, I'm a Yankee."

There’s one thing that A-Rod does have right about being a Yankee so far. It’s called class. I don’t know what he’s like off the field, but he knows how to handle himself in public and isn’t going to get involved with talking smack, especially with a guy that has one of the top five ugliest moustaches in sports history.