A-Rod-Selena Roberts Book

[David]

Re: A-Rod-Selena Roberts Book

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]

Re: A-Rod-Selena Roberts Book

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]

Re: A-Rod-Selena Roberts Book

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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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