There's no doubt a large bulk of the spergery comes from closeted fag (and even worse, a Vikings fan) Mike Florio.

Peak Florio. He always had a bit of a chip against him since he was the QB for his rival, but he clicked into overdrive after the incredibly based "immunized" situation.
It's hilarious because if this were in a vacuum with no other context, you'd assume Florio is a schizofrenic. He did something similar a few months ago when Aaron was wearing a wedding band and Florio's article was about Aaron wearing it explicitly to drum up speculation whether he was married or not. Aaron marching to the beat of his own drum infuriates the everliving fuck out of Florio and company so they overanalyze everything, ignore all context, and make it out like it's woo woo or attention whoring. Which makes them scrutinize things like schizophrenics even more and ultimately validating Aaron's perspective that it's all relative.
I'll admit A-Rod doesn't do himself any favors by demonstrably treating members of the media like retards but that's clearly how he wants to go about it for better or worse. Funnily enough, He probably doesn't regret it at all since they validate themselves being retarded (to him at least) when they sperg out, so the cycle perpetuates and so on.