Tuesday, May 5, 2009

New A-Rod book full of assumptions, not enough facts

Yesterday Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts released her book titled "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez" that claimed that Alex Rodriguez did not only use steroids when he was with the Texas Rangers like he said he did. In Roberts' book she leads the reader to believe that Alex Rodriguez did steroids as early as high school. It also suggests that Rodriguez may have been tipping pitches to other players, even players not on his team. A-Rod has denied that any of these accusations from Roberts' book are true and remains firm on his statement that he only did steroids during his time with the Texas Rangers.

New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi has shown his support for A-Rod by questioning the accusations in the book and calling for more evidence to those accusations. Girardi is clearly not a big fan of Selena Roberts and has repeatedly shown that in reports by questioning the reasoning for her writing the book.

"I think sometimes things are written about that none of us are proud of,"
Girardi said. "There's things in my life that I'm not proud of that I've done.I wouldn't want my kids to have to deal with that. You know, I tell my
kids that daddy makes mistakes, I do. And I apologize for them. I saw
daddy's not perfect. It's not necessarily something that I would want them
to read about all the time, to be the focus. I'm just saying he wants to be
a father too."

As for A-Rod, he is currently working on rehabbing his hip that he had surgery on this summer to repair a cyst. He is hoping to return to the Yankees on Friday against the Baltimore Orioles. This would be much earlier than his originally expected return that was on May 15th. A-Rod has refused to comment on the book and continues to deny ever using steroids any other time in his life besides the period with the Texas Rangers that he has already confessed to.

3 comments:

  1. I think it was just funny how Alex Rodriguez lied in a interview on "60 Minutes" a year ago saying that he never took performance enhancing drugs, and then he tells Peter Gammons in an interview about four months ago that yes he used them. A-Rod uses teh excuse that it was such a loose culture. What does that mean? That has no credibility. As far as I'm concerned A-Rod is a joke. I don't believe anythi ng A-Rod says anymore. He only wants to be in the spotlight, which is why he accepted so much money from the Yankees. He still has not won the hearts of Yankee fans either. Will he ever show up in the playoffs? I guess we'll have to see.

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  2. Forget about the whole steroid controversy... the fact that he is or did date Madonna shows his stupidity. I take more points off for that one than the use of steroids!

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  3. so your blog theme is Blog de la Alex... so that means this post counts toward your theme right? ALEX rodriguez? hahaha

    whenever you post the block quote there are unnecessary spaces between some words, i know, weird huh? but as soon as you click the quote part for that paragraph it wont look like there are spaces, you just have to find them! then it will look nice and non-spacious.

    i had a little laugh at the comment you left me btw
    --KJ

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