Alex Rodriguez Mocked, Ridiculed On Front Page Of New York Post (Photo)

It’s going to be a long season for Alex Rodriguez.

The New York Yankees third baseman returned to game action for the first time since 2013 on Wednesday. Rodriguez, who missed all of 2014 serving a 162-game suspension for performance-enhancing drug use, made his spring training debut against the Philadelphia Phillies.

All in all, it wasn’t a bad showing for Rodriguez, who went 1-for-2 with a single and a walk. Rodriguez got a mixed reception in front of Yankees fans at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, but there was nothing mixed about the welcome back he got from the New York Post on Thursday.

On a morning where there was plenty of other world news — the Justice Department’s findings on Ferguson, the beginning of the Boston Marathon bombing trial, the attack of a U.S. ambassador in South Korea — the Post decided Rodriguez’s spring training debut needed to be on the front cover.

And they went hard at A-Rod.

If Rodriguez hadn’t spent much of his career being so unlikable and doing so many shady things, you’d almost start to feel bad for him at this point. Almost.