Posted by admin on February 9, 2009 under Alex Rodriguez | 
I’m really not sure how I feel about about Alex Rodriguez’s admission to using a “banned substance” and I don’t know if I’ll have a concrete feeling about him again. I had a lot of mixed emotions as I watched his interview on ESPN with Peter Gammons and now as I write this.
I didn’t think he would admit that he used anything. I expected him to take the route of Roger Clemmens or Mark McGwire and deny everything. I want to say that makes A-Rod a better man and I have to respect that…or it might just be that he thinks he still has a chance of getting into the Hall Of Fame since he came clean. And maybe he does have a right to prove that he still belongs in the Hall.
I was hoping to hear reasons on why he would do such a thing, instead there was definitely times he sounded like a politician. Not as bad as Rod Blagojevich, but he’s definitely no Obama. A-Rod made a lot of excuses. It was like one minute he was taking responsibility, then the next he was blaming the culture of baseball at the time, the pressure to perform, being young and stupid to one hundred plus degree weather in Texas.
Then he goes off on a tagent and starts to blame the Sports Illustrated reporter, Selena Roberts. It was like he was blaming her for the story coming out….and basically calling her psycho for stalking him, when she was just doing her job, bringing a story to light, that the public definitely needed to know about.
I’ll admit, that I’m still not on A-Rod’s side yet. But at least, I’m beginning to feel for him and think that maybe he’s not the worse person ever. I would like to see if he backs up his words with actions and does go out and speak to the youth about steroids, goes into poor communities in effort to do “real good.” I don’t know if it would make up for it, but at least it would be a start.
The cynical Yankee fan says that he’ll be forgiven if the Yankees start the season on a winning streak and permanently pardoned if the Yankees win the world series this year.
Posted by admin on February 7, 2009 under Alex Rodriguez |
I’m sure by now, you’ve heard that earlier today Sports Illustrated broke the story that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 when he was playing with the Texas Rangers.
Half of me is angry that another one of my heroes has been tainted. The other half wants A-Rod to get back on the juice!I really want to see what he could do in October while all hoped up on roids.
All this time, we’ve been blaming the intense media spotlight for his drop in stats from 2003 to the 2004 season when he started with the Yankees. We all owe a major apology to the media, the real reason for his decrease in productivity was that he stopped taking steroids.
I’d really hate to be A-Rod at a game now. There’s so many chants to choose from A-Fraud, A-Rod I want my money back (one of my personal favorites after too many drinks when the Yankees are losing) and who knows what chant they’re going to come up with the steroids. And that’ll be just from the Yankee fans, I’d hate to see what it’ll be like in Boston.
Just the other day I was listening to Sports Center and after the story of Barry Bonds one of the commentators said that he can’t wait to see A-Rod break the record because he was steroid free. Looks like he spoke a little too soon! I’ll admit that I’m kind of pissed about it. Using steroids is cheating and I thought he was above that. I was motivated by his work ethnic, now I”m thinking that I should take to cheating and cutting corners.
I heard some talk about what will come because the test results were supposed to be confendital information. A. I think it’ll come out that the information was leaked, stolen or from a rogue employee that’s now conveniently fired. B. It really doesn’t matter. Information like this shouldn’t be kept secret. The fans who pay these guy’s saleries from ticket sales to buying their jerseys deserve to know who was cheating and who wasn’t.
Which reminds me, I’m going to head off to Finish Line and see if they’ll let me return the Rodriguez jersey that I bought in 2004.
Posted by admin on January 25, 2009 under Hot Stove |
February 3rd, Joe Torre has a book a coming out called The Yankee Years but it’s already causing controversy. Whether it’s a ploy to sell books or something else, I don’t know.
According to NY Daily News, Torre detailed how Yankees General Manger Brian Cashman back stabbed him several times, especially in October 2007 when Torre was negotiating with the Yankees owners to extend his contract.
Torre talks about Alex Rodriguez and how he was called A-Fraud by other players in the Yankee dugout. From what I’ve read so far, it doesn’t say whether this was something that Torre felt or if he was just talking about the way the other Yankee players felt.
Also included is A-Rods relationship with Derek Jeter, saying that the third baseman was practically stalking Jeter, wanting to be like him with the same sort or reception in New York, by the other teammates, etc.
My first reaction is that I didn’t expect something like this from Joe Torre, someone who was so “stoic” and generally did so well with the press. Of course, we’ll have to read the book to get the true context.
Does any of it really matter? Joe Torre is managing in Los Angeles now and the Yankees have a new manager that has to step up to the plate and lead the Yankees into the post season.
This just in from Josh Q. Public, Torre will be on the David Letterman show the day the book is realsed. That should be an interesting interview.
