A-Rod-Selena Roberts Book

[David]

If your boss approached you and asked if you've been embezzling company funds (and you haven't) are you going to respond by saying, "No, of course not" or "Hmm. I don't think I'm going to answer that question"? If you give the latter answer, do you think the boss is going to think "He must not have done it"?

If your neighbor asks if you've been stealing her underwear from her clothes line (and you haven't) are you going to respond "What are you talking about? That's ridiculous. Of course not" or are you going to response "No comment." If you say, "No comment" what do you think the perception of your neighbor?

It makes no common sense that you would respond to the above questions, plus false accusations of steroid negative use, in anything but the negative.

[cjclong]

Normally when a person is accused of something and doesn't deny it we believe it is an admission of guilt. The only exception I can think of is that ARod might simply feel that if he talks about the book at all he will be asked about everything in it over and over. Suppose he didn't use PED in High
school and denies it. Then he is asked something about strippers and says I don't want to talk about it. People would then say he denied the drug use but not the strippers. He probably can't say nothing in the book is true, because some things probably are, but if he denies one thing it won't stop until he has admitted or denied everything. And if he does deny something how many people will believe him anyway so just say "no comment" and wait for it to blow over and think the less publicity you give it the quicker it will pass.

[joelsabi]

GET those idiots on ebay, MVPmarketingmanagement, to unlist your 520th home run bat for the last 4 months for $14,999.00, Alex. You are starting to smell.....

Was this necessary? Have you dealt with them? MVPmarketingmanagement happens to be the best source for ARod item at this part of Arod career. Mario and his team are very professional and are willing to negotiate.

When you make statements like this, much of what you say goes out one ear and out the other. I lose interest in the rest you have to say.

I enjoy ready what you says but half the time i cant even complete you messages.

[quiggle28]

ARod seems to be the type who loves the attention, whether it is positive or negative. How often have you ever seen someone on both the front and back covers of local newspapers for the same day?

[David]

Athletes like Terrell Owens want attention. Whether it's good or bad attention doesn't matter to them, so long as it's attention. What other explanation is there for Owens to act like a total imbecile all the time. The time he was doing his sit ups in his front yard for the television cameras was the most childish thing from an adult I'd seen. I'm sure most of the cameramen and reporters present were laughing to themselves as what an idiot Owens was being. But, to Terrell, he was getting that precious attention.

[David]

Some athletes, like Owens, mistake attention for respect. If people are looking at them and their pictures in the magazines, the think they are being respected. However, that people's eyes are drawn to car crash scenes and bloopers where people's pants fall down in public, says that eye contact often has very little do to with respect.

[Nathan]

I don't claim to be an A-Rod fan, but as a collector of game used items from baseball, and particularly the 500 home run club members, I do have a few of A-Rods game used pieces.

That said, I'll tell you all how I feel.

I think A-Rod better drop his "pretty-boy" b.s. forthright, and get his nose to the grindstone NOW. He better focus on making himself REAL.....not this freakshow he has become. He had better get back to his roots but QUICK, focusing on becoming a good teammate and great baseball player.

Alex Rodriguez needs to focus on becoming a great baseball player? Well, we're talking one of the top-50 at any position in history and probably top-30; moving up higher will be an issue of sustaining what he's done to this point, not exceeding what he's already shown the ability to do.

He better just stick his game-used "stuff" in a vault somewhere, and immediately fire all of his "marketing" staff. Pick it back up after retirement. For Christ's sake, he has all the money in the world. Do you really need to f&%k around with THAT now Alex?? Your reputation is crumbling, Romeo.

GET those idiots on ebay, MVPmarketingmanagement, to unlist your 520th home run bat for the last 4 months for $14,999.00, Alex. You are starting to smell.....

Is Alex Rodriguez the only player to sell his own stuff? Of course not. So is the difference in perception simply the size of his contract?

Winston Churchill once asked a woman at a party if she would sleep with him for a million dollars, to which she responded in the affirmative. He then asked if she would for ten dollars, to which she snarled something like "Do I look like a filthy harlot?" Churchill responded, "Oh, we've already established that. Now we're simply haggling over the price."

In another year or two, if he continues to prime reporters with all of his self-demonstrated talk-show gossip news about his personal life, dating preferences, steroid use, lack of clutch play, no world championships.......I mean it's passed "circus" 1,000 miles back, and it's heading for straight disgraceful trashy "Jerry Springer" episodes.

Personal life? Dating preferences? THIS is baseball news?

A-Rod better snap out of all of this Madonna-latent crap, and get back to what he is supposed to be all about.....being a baseball player.

He made a wrong turn a long time ago....and he's lost in a town he's not familiar with. No, not New York...."Hollywood". Lose the drama now.

So he's walking red carpets, calling press conferences over nothing, and stuff like that?

Crapping down the throat of the game that has given him everything he has in life.....is not a way to find the promised land (the Hall). I don't care if you end up with 850 homers.....if you continue down this road, your followers, memorabilia, reputation, and life will end up in the same black hole.....and all that money won't make a bit of difference.

Which would be a shame.

I will hang on to the few A-Rod pieces I have....but only in the hopes he salvages his seriously damaged reputation. And from the looks of things, he's going to pass Barry Bonds in more than just the all-time home runs category.

He'll pass him up as the biggest a-hole to ever play the game.

This is what I don't get. Barry Bonds is pretty much universally regarded as a major prick for a variety of reasons, the most noteworthy being that he was incredibly combative with the media, with teammates, and especially with fans.

If Alex Rodriguez performed at his level of performance in the relative anonymity of Kansas City or Pittsburgh or simply had a "normal" contract, would any of this be news? Would all sorts of stuff related to his personal life be splashed all over ESPN and various tabloids that masquerade as newspapers?

Baseball is full of players who are dirtbags. There are a ton who are married and yet have a girlfriend in every road city. There are an awful lot who have kids with their wife and a kid (or six) with other women. There are a lot who spend an inordinate amount of time at strip clubs, in casinos, or associating with shady characters. There are a lot who show up hung over to the point of still being intoxicated. And yet we never hear about any of this?

Does this excuse what Rodriguez does or doesn't do in his personal time? I don't think so. We're not talking about someone who pulls a Brett Favre and goes out of his way to be the center of attention at all times; the only exception was the voiding of the contract during the World Series (by Scott Boras, announced by Scott Boras, and something that resulted in the termination of Scott Boras by Rodriguez).

The fact is that Rodriguez is the center of attention because the media won't leave him alone. He's the only one whose every move is scrutinized not just during the season, but during the offseason. I believe he's held to a grossly unequal standard that no one else in baseball or in any sport could approach. Remember the response to his name being among those 103 or 104 who tested positive during the trial run? The question was asked how his name was discovered, and the response was, "We went looking for it." No one went looking for anyone else, no one reported anyone else, just Rodriguez.

The whole thing is absolutely pathetic, but I believe it's a more damning indictment on the sport media than it is on Rodriguez.

[3arod13]

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When you make statements like this, much of what you say goes out one ear and out the other. I lose interest in the rest you have to say.

I enjoy ready what you says but half the time i cant even complete you messages.

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