No matter how likable you are, nobody is going to like you 100 percent of the time.
“Believe me,” Fernando Rodney said. “I know of this.”
Rodney, the Diamondbacks’ new closer, lets out a hearty laugh as he throws on his cap and shapes it a handful of inches to the left in his trademark style. That’s one of the things some people don’t like about the 40-year-old Dominican. One of many.
Some are put also off by his antics on the mound, where he may repeatedly step on and off the rubber and shoot stares at the opposing dugout or suddenly start making loud and intimidating animal noises, like that of a screeching hawk or a snarling feral hound.